Lee Ann Brown and Julie Patton reading at CSUSM Thursday, April 23

Please join us on Thursday, April 23 at 7 p.m. for the next reading in the Community and World Literary Series at California State University, San Marcos, featuring Lee Ann Brown and Julie Patton.

The reading will be held on the Cal State San Marcos campus in the Grand Salon (rm. 113) of the M. Gordon Clarke Field House. The event is free and open to the public, but there is a fee for on-campus parking.

Lee Ann Brown was born in Japan and raised in Charlotte, NC. She is the author of two collections of poetry, The Sleep that Changed Everything (Wesleyan University Press, 2003), and Polyverse (Sun & Moon, 1999) which received the New American Poetry Series Award ), and a song cycle, The 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Her poetry is also included in several anthologies, including Line: A Drawing Center Anthology, Best American Poetry 2001, Giant Step: African American Writing at the Crossroads of the Century, and The Garden Thrives: Twentieth Century African-American Poetry. She teaches at St. John’s University in New York City and is editor of Tender Buttons Press, publishing experimental women’s poetry since 1989.

Julie Patton is a conceptual artist based out of New York City for 30 years. Her site-specific projects have been featured in literary forums, publications, museums and performance festivals and venues in the USA and abroad. Her books ((eco (lang)(uage(reader)) (Portable Press) and BS (Tender Buttons) are forthcoming. Patton has collaborated with musicians such as Henri Grimes, Drew Gardner, Ravi Coltrane, Ralph Alessi, Barnaby McAll, and many others. A recipient of the first annual New York City Arts in Education Award for Sustained Achievement (1993), Patton has taught and developed curriculum for a variety of museums, colleges and learning initiatives, including Teachers & Writers Collaborative, Escuela Popular des Artes (Medellin, Colombia), Touchstone Center for Children, Naropa Institute, NYU, Cooper Union, Missoula Writing Collaborative, Case Western Reserve, Universita di Venezia, and the Schule Fur Dichtung.

Event Information:

Thursday, April 23, 7 p.m.
Grand Salon (rm. 113) of the M. Gordon Clarke Field House
California State University, San Marcos
333 S. Twin Oaks Valley Rd.
Campus Maps and Directions: http://www.csusm.edu/resources/images/maps/
For more information, or to sign on to our mailing list to receive announcements of future events, check out our website:
http://www.csusm.edu/cwls/

Kathleen Rooney and Elisa Gabbert reading at CSUSM Thursday, March 19

Please join us on Thursday, March 19 at 7 p.m. for the next reading in the Community and World Literary Series at California State University, San Marcos, featuring Kathleen Rooney and Elisa Gabbert.

The reading will be held on the Cal State San Marcos campus in the Grand Salon (Room 113) of the M. Gordon Clarke Field House. The event is free and open to the public, but there is a fee for on-campus parking.

Kathleen Rooney and Elisa Gabbert are co-authors of the collaborative books Something Really Wonderful (dancing girl press, 2007), and That Tiny Insane Voluptuousness (Otoliths Books, 2008). Their collaborations can also be found in Boston Review, Caketrain, jubilat, and No Tell Motel.

Kathleen Rooney is a founding editor of Rose Metal Press and the author of Reading with Oprah: The Book Club That Changed America (University of Arkansas Press, 2005) and the memoir Live Nude Girl: My Life as an Object (Arkansas, 2009), as well as the poetry collection Oneiromance (an epithalamion) (Switchback Books, 2008). Recent poems and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Ninth Letter, LIT, Court Green, Notre Dame Review, Gettysburg Review and Sycamore Review.

Elisa Gabbert was born in Texas and currently lives in the Boston area, where she works as an editor and SEO specialist. She holds degrees in linguistics and cognitive science from Rice University and an MFA in creative writing from Emerson College. She is the poetry editor of Absent. Her poems have appeared in Colorado Review, Diagram, Eleven Eleven, LIT, Meridian, Pleiades, Raleigh Quarterly, Redivider, Typo, Washington Square and elsewhere. A chapbook, Thanks for Sending the Engine, is available from Kitchen Press, and a second, My Fear of X, is forthcoming from Kitchen Press in 2009.


Event Information:

Thursday, March 19, 7 p.m.
Grand Salon (rm. 113) of the M. Gordon Clarke Field House
California State University, San Marcos
333 S. Twin Oaks Valley Rd.
Campus Maps and Directions: http://www.csusm.edu/resources/images/maps/
For more information, or to sign on to our mailing list to receive announcements of future events, check out our website:
http://www.csusm.edu/cwls/

Ken Kuhlken reading at CSUSM Thursday, February 12

Please join us on Thursday, February 12 at 7 p.m. for the next reading in the Community and World Literary Series at California State University, San Marcos, featuring Ken Kuhlken.

The reading will be held on the Cal State San Marcos campus in Commons 206. Commons 206 is located on the edge of Founders Plaza, near the new, second university bookstore at the back of Craven Hall, across from the Science Center and at the other end of the plaza from Academic Hall.

The event is free and open to the public, but there is a fee for on-campus parking.

Ken Kuhlken’s stories have appeared in Esquire and dozens of other magazines and anthologies, been honorably mentioned in Best American Short Stories, and earned a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. He has been a frequent contributor and a columnist for the San Diego Reader. His novels are Midheaven, a finalist for the Ernest Hemingway Award for best first novel, The Loud Adios (Private Eye Writers of America Best First Mystery Novel, 1989), The Venus Deal, The Angel Gang, The Do-Re-Mi (a January Magazine best book of 2006 and a finalist for the Shamus Award for Best PI Novel), and The Vagabond Virgins (February, 2008). More information on his work can be found at his website www.kenkuhlken.net.


Event Information:

Thursday, February 12, 7 p.m.
Commons 206
California State University, San Marcos
333 S. Twin Oaks Valley Rd.
Campus Maps and Directions: http://www.csusm.edu/guide/maps.html
For more information, or to sign on to our mailing list to receive announcements of future events, check out our website:
http://www.csusm.edu/cwls/

Spring 2009 readings at Cal Sate San Marcos

Upcoming readings n spring 2009 in the Community and World Literary Series at Cal State San Marcos:

February 12
Ken Kuhlken
Commons 206

March 19
Elisa Gabbert and Kathleen Rooney
Grand Salon (room 113) of the M. Gordon Clarke Field House

April 23
Lee Ann Brown and Julie Patton
Grand Salon (room 113) of the M. Gordon Clarke Field House

All events are at 7 p.m. and are free and open to the public, although there is a fee for on-campus parking.

Further details coming soon.

Kevin Moffett and Daniel Gutstein reading at CSUSM Thursday, November 13

Please join us on Thursday, November 13 at 7 p.m. for the next reading in the Community and World Literary Series at California State University, San Marcos, featuring Kevin Moffett and Daniel Gutstein.

The reading will be held on the Cal State San Marcos campus in Markstein Hall 125. The event is free and open to the public, but there is a fee for on-campus parking.

Kevin Moffett was born and raised in Daytona Beach, Florida. His collection of stories, Permanent Visitors, won the John Simmons Short Fiction Award and was long-listed for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. His stories and essays have appeared in McSweeney's, Tin House, A Public Space, Harvard Review, The Believer, The Chicago Tribune, and Best American Short Stories 2006. He has received the Nelson Algren Award in Short Fiction, the Pushcart Prize, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction Writing. He teaches writing at CSU San Bernardino.

Daniel Gutstein’s poems and stories have appeared in dozens of publications, including TriQuarterly, New Orleans Review, Ploughshares, River City, Barrow Street, American Scholar, Prairie Schooner, Seneca Review, Quarter After Eight, Third Coast, Poet Lore, Fiction, Story Quarterly, Other Voices, and Bellevue Literary Review. His work has been featured in the Penguin Book of the Sonnet and Best American Poetry 2006 as well as aboard metrobuses in Northern Virginia. He has received grants and awards from the Maryland State Arts Council, Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County (Md.), University of Michigan, and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and other organizations. He works at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, where he runs the Writing Studio and Learning Resource Center, and at George Washington University, where he teaches creative writing. He has also worked as an editor-in-chief, international economist, farm hand, tae kwon do instructor, reporter, theater arts educator, and learning specialist.

Event Information:

Thursday, November 13, 7 p.m.
Markstein Hall 125
California State University, San Marcos
333 S. Twin Oaks Valley Rd.
Campus Maps and Directions: http://www.csusm.edu/resources/images/maps/
For more information, or to sign on to our mailing list to receive announcements of future events, check out our website:
http://www.csusm.edu/cwls/

Hank Lazer reading at CSUSM Thursday, Octber 9

Please join us on Thursday, October 9 at 7 p.m. for the next reading in the Community and World Literary Series at California State University, San Marcos, featuring Hank Lazer.

The reading will be held on the Cal State San Marcos campus in the Grand Salon (Room 113) of the M. Gordon Clarke Field House. The event is free and open to the public, but there is a fee for on-campus parking.

Hank Lazer has published 14 books of poetry, including The New Spirit (Singing Horse, 2005), Elegies & Vacations (Salt, 2004), and Days (Lavender Ink, 2002). He has given poetry readings and talks in the United States, France, Canada, the Canary Islands, China, Mexico, and Spain. Lazer's poetry has been nominated for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize and the 2004 Forward Prize. With Charles Bernstein, he edits the Modern and Contemporary Poetics Series for the University of Alabama Press. For the past twelve years, his essays on innovative poetry, new modes of lyricism, and representations of spiritual experience have appeared in a variety of journals, including Facture, The Boston Review, Jacket, American Poetry Review, and Talisman. In 2008, Omnidawn published Lyric & Spirit: Selected Essays, 1996-2008 (see http://www.omnidawn.com/ ). Over the past few years, Lazer has collaborated with jazz musicians Tom Wolfe and Chris Kozak on some jazz & poetry improvisations and with outsider artist Pak on a series of poem-paintings. He is currently working with animation artist Janeann Dill on a poetry-video installation project. Hank Lazer is a Professor of English at the University of Alabama where he is also an administrator serving as the Associate Provost for Academic Affairs.


Event Information:

Thursday, October 9, 7 p.m.
Grand Salon (Room 113)
M. Gordon Clarke Field House
California State University, San Marcos
333 S. Twin Oaks Valley Rd.
Campus Maps and Directions: http://www.csusm.edu/resources/images/maps/
For more information, or to sign on to our mailing list to receive announcements of future events, check out our website:
http://www.csusm.edu/cwls/

Christina Milletti reading at CSUSM Thursday, September 18

Please join us on Thursday, September 18 at 7 p.m. for the next reading in the Community and World Literary Series at California State University, San Marcos, featuring Christina Milletti.

The reading will be held on the Cal State San Marcos campus in Commons 206. Commons 206 is located on the edge of Founders Plaza, near the new, second university bookstore at the back of Craven Hall, across from the Science Center and at the other end of the plaza from Academic Hall.

The event is free and open to the public, but there is a fee for on-campus parking.

Christina Milletti’s collection of stories, The Religious and Other Fictions, was published by Carnegie Mellon University Press in Fall 2006. Her critical work has been appeared most recently in Studies in the Novel and Fiction's Present: Situating Contemporary Narrative Innovation. She is an Assistant Professor of English at the University at Buffalo, S.U.N.Y. where she is writing her first novel, Choke Box.


Event Information:

Thursday, September 18, 7 p.m.
Commons 206
California State University, San Marcos
333 S. Twin Oaks Valley Rd.
Campus Maps and Directions:
http://www.csusm.edu/guide/maps.html
For more information, or to sign on to our mailing list to receive announcements of future events, check out our website:
http://www.csusm.edu/cwls/