Joanne Kyger at CSUSM Thursday, Nov 15

Please join us on Thursday, November 15 at 7 p.m. for the next reading in the Community and World Literary Series at California State University, San Marcos, featuring Joanne Kyger.

The reading will be held on the Cal State San Marcos campus in Academic Hall 102. The event is free and open to the public, but there is a fee for on-campus parking.

Joanne Kyger, a native California poet, is known for her ties to the poets of Black Mountain College, the San Francisco Renaissance and the Beat Generation. Her recently published book About Now: Collected Poems (National Poetry Foundation) gathers her writing from 1957-2004 and has been widely acclaimed as a significantly milestone in the history of American literature. The author of more than 20 other books of poetry, she has taught at Mills College, The New College of San Francisco, and for over 30 years at the Summer Writing program at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. Other recent publications include Not Veracruz (Libellum Press, Fall 2007) and Loose Renditions, on line at Coyotesjournal.com. Her recent rewards include a 2006 award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. She currently lives on the coast north of San Francisco.

Event Information:

Thursday, November 15, 7 p.m.
Academic Hall 102
California State University, San Marcos
333 S. Twin Oaks Valley Rd.
Campus Maps and Directions: http://www.csusm.edu/resources/images/maps/
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http://www.csusm.edu/cwls/

K. Silem Mohammad at CSUSM Thursday, Nov 1

Please join us on Thursday, November 1 at 7 p.m. for the next reading in the Community and World Literary Series at California State University, San Marcos, featuring K Silem Mohammad.

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.

K. Silem Mohammad is the author of Deer Head Nation (Tougher Disguises, 2003), A Thousand Devils (Combo Books, 2004), and Breathalyzer (Edge Books, 2007). Another book, Dutch Sound, is forthcoming from Factory School. His poetry has appeared in numerous journals, webzines, and anthologies, including New American Writing, Fence, The Poker, Jacket, Fascicle, and Bay Poetics, and was selected by Lyn Hejinian for inclusion in The Best American Poetry 2004. He maintains the poetry and poetics blog Lime Tree (http://lime-tree.blogspot.com), and he co-edits the magazine Abraham Lincoln with Anne Boyer. He has also co-edited (with Richard Greene) and contributed to two volumes of essays in the Popular Culture and Philosophy series from Open Court Press: The Undead and Philosophy (2006) and Quentin Tarantino and Philosophy (2007). Mohammad is Associate Professor of Language, Literature, and Philosophy at Southern Oregon University.


Event Information:

Thursday, November 1, 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, check out our website:
http://www.csusm.edu/cwls/

William Luvaas at CSUSM Thursday, October 4

Please join us on Thursday, October 4 at 7 p.m. for the next reading in the Community and World Literary Series at California State University, San Marcos, featuring William Luvaas.

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.

William Luvaas’s short story collection A Working Man’s Apocrypha has just been published by University of Oklahoma Press. He has also published two novels, The Seductions of Natalie Bach (Little, Brown) and Going Under (Putnam). His short fiction, essays and articles have appeared in many publications and anthologies, including The American Literary Review, Antioch Review, Confrontation, Glimmer Train, Harper's Weekly, North American Review, San Diego Reader, San Francisco Chronicle, Short Story, The Sun, Thema, The Village Voice, Paraspheres, Pretext, and American Fiction. Luvaas received an MFA from San Diego State University and stayed on there to teach Creative Writing and Literature for ten years. He has also taught at The Writer's Voice in New York and The University of California, Riverside, and served as Fiction Coordinator for New York State Poets in Public Service. He has been a carpenter, pipe maker, window washer, craftsman and freelance journalist. He currently resides on Chinaberry Farm in Riverside County, California, with his wife Lucinda, a visual artist and film maker.


Event Information:

Thursday, October 4, 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, check out our website:
http://www.csusm.edu/cwls/

Fall 2007 dates and readers

Fall 2008 readings in the CSUSM Community and World Literary Series:



Thursday, October 4, 7:00 p.m.: William Luvaas

Thursday, November 1, 7:00 p.m.: K. Silem Mohammad

Thursday, November 15, 7:00 p.m.: Joanne Kyger


Further details to follow at a later time.

Catherine Wagner at CSUSM Thursday April 19

Please join us on Thursday, April 19 at 7 p.m. for the final reading of the semester in the Community and World Literary Series at California State University, San Marcos, featuring Catherine Wagner.

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.

Catherine Wagner's collections of poems include Macular Hole (2004), Miss America (2001), and many chapbooks, including Imitating (Leafe Press 2004). She performs widely in the US and UK; new poems and essays appeared recently or are forthcoming in Verse, How2, Five Fingers Review, Superflux, Action Yes, Soft Targets, New Review, and other magazines. An anthology of contemporary poetry by mothers she is co-editing, Not for Mothers Only, featuring Rae Armantrout, Bernadette Mayer, Alice Notley, and Claudia Rankine, among others, will be published by Fence in 2007. She teaches at Miami University in Ohio.

Event Information:

Thursday, April 19, 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, check out our website:
http://www.csusm.edu/cwls/

Juliana Spahr at CSUSM April 5

Please join us on Thursday, April 5 at 7 p.m. for the next reading in the Community and World Literary Series at California State University, San Marcos, featuring Juliana Spahr.

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.

Juliana Spahr began writing her most recent book, This Connection of Everyone with Lungs (U of California Press, 2005) when she realized that the US would once again begin bombing Iraq. In this series of poems written from November 30, 2002 to March 30, 2003, she mixes lyric conventions with news reports of the deployment to write a series of prose poems that wrap with equal, angular grace around lovers and battleships. The New York Times called This Connection “a poetics of superinformation” and Publishers Weekly called it “innovative, incantatory, politically charged and decidedly accessible.” Spahr’s other recent work includes the essay collection Poetry & Pedagogy: the Challenge of the Contemporary (Palgrave, 2006), edited with Joan Retallack. She has edited the journal Chain with Jena Osman for the last twelve years and with nineteen other poets she has been an editor of the collectively run and collectively funded Subpress. In addition to writing poetry, she is partial to the short essay format and she self-publishes much of this work; pdfs can be found at people.mills.edu/jspahr.

Event Information:

Thursday, April 5, 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, check out our website:

http://www.csusm.edu/cwls/

Laura Elrick and Rodrigo Toscano at CSUSM March 8

Please join us on Thursday, March 8 at 7 p.m. for the next reading in the Community and World Literary Series at California State University, San Marcos, featuring Laura Elrick and Rodrigo Toscano.

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.

Laura Elrick was born and raised on the east slope of the Colorado rockies and now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Her second book Fantasies in Permeable Structures was published in Factory School’s Heretical Texts series in 2005. She is also the author of sKincerity (Krupskaya, 2003) and is one of the featured writers on Women In the Avant Garde, an audio CD produced by Narrow House Recordings in 2004. A past guest editor of The Capilano Review and curator of the Segue on the Bowery reading series, Elrick is currently poetry co-editor of the New York City monthly Boog City and a member of the 2007 Future Poem editorial board.

Rodrigo Toscano is the author of To Leveling Swerve, Platform, The Disparities and Partisans. His work has recently appeared in Best American Poetry (2004), War and Peace (2004), and In the Criminal's Cabinet: An anthology of poetry and fiction (2004). In 2005, he was the recipient of a New York State Fellowship in Poetry. His experimental poetic plays, polyvocalic pieces, masques, anti-masques, and radio plays have recently been performed at the Disney Redcat Theater in Los Angeles, St. Mark’s Poetry Project, New Langton Arts Space (San Francisco), as well as in Vancouver, Canada and Teubingen, Germany. His writing has been translated into French, German, Portuguese, Norwegian, and Italian. Toscano is originally from the Borderlands of California. He now lives in Brooklyn, and works in Manhattan for the Labor Institute.

Event Information:

Thursday, March 8, 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, check out our website:
http://www.csusm.edu/cwls/

Spring Events in the Community and World Literary Series

Thursday, March 8, 7 p.m.

Laura Elrick and Rodrigo Toscano


Thursday, April 5, 7 p.m.

Juliana Spahr


Thursday, April 19, 7 p.m.

Catherine Wagner


Sunday, April 22, time TBA

Al Young, Poet Laureate of California

(a special event in the Community and World Literary Series, hosted by Brandon Cesmat)


Location TBA

About the Series

ABOUT THE SERIES...

The Cal State San Marcos Community and World Literary Series hosts on-campus literary readings several times a semester. Our visiting authors have produced some of the most innovative and original work in contemporary poetry, fiction, drama and performance art. Some of these writers are local to southern California, while others come from elsewhere in the country and the world. All are at the forefront of developments in contemporary aesthetics and culture.

Students, faculty, staff and members of the public are invited to experience, live, some of the most exciting literature of the present moment. Whether you think of yourself as a writer, someone who wants to be a writer, or someone who’s interested in any of the amazing possibilities in contemporary literature, art, culture, politics or history, The Community and World Literary Series offers you a chance to hear and interact with writers exploring subjects of crucial contemporary relevance. Their work may very well suggest possibilities for your own future. Come on out and become part of the CSUSM literary community.