Community and World Literary Series

Spring 2012 readings in the Community and World Literary Series

2012-01-31T13:01:00.000-08:00

Thursday, February 9, 6:30 p.m.
Claudia Rankine
Markstein Hall 125
(not an official CWLS event; this reading has been funded by the CSUSM Arts and Lecture Series)

Thursday, April 12, 7 p.m.
Harold Jaffe
location TBA

Thursday, April 26, 7 p.m.
Susan Schultz and Craig Santos Perez
location TBA

Clayton Eshelman reading at CSU San Marcos, Thursday, November 17

2011-11-03T11:12:00.000-07:00

Please join us on Thursday, November 17 at 7 p.m. for the next reading in the Community and World Literary Series at California State University, San Marcos, featuring Clayton Eshelman.

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.

Clayton Eshleman has been at the heart of American poetry since the early 1960s. During his long career he has published more than 40 books, including most recently the poetry collection Anticline. In 2008, Black Widow Press in Boston brought out a 630 page Clayton Eshleman Reader, The Grindstone of Rapport, collecting 40 years of his poetry, prose, and translations. His poetry and work on poets as important and diverse as Cesar Vallejo, Aime Cesaire, Pablo Neruda, Antonin Artaud, Vladimir Holan, Henri Michaux, and Bernard Bador have earned him international acclaim, including a U.S. National Book Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, numerous grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and two Landon Translation Prizes from the Academy of American Poets. He was the founder and editor of two of the most important literary journals in the latter half of the 20th century, Caterpillar and Sulfur. Eshleman lives in Ypsilanti, Michigan, and is a Professor Emeritus at Eastern Michigan University. More information can be found at his website: http://www.claytoneshleman.com/

Event Information:

Thursday, September 29, 7 p.m.
Markstein Hall, Room 125
California State University, San Marcos
333 S. Twin Oaks Valley Rd.
Campus Maps and Directions: http://www.csusm.edu/guide/maps.html

Tisa Bryant and Amina Cain reading at CSU San Marcos, Thursday, Oct 27, 7 p.m.

2011-10-09T14:37:00.000-07:00

Please join us on Thursday, October 27 at 7 p.m. for the next reading in the Community and World Literary Series at California State University, San Marcos, featuring Tisa Bryant and Amina Cain.

The reading will be held on the Cal State San Marcos campus in Commons 206. The event is free and open to the public, but there is a fee for on-campus parking.

Tisa Bryant's writing currently indulges her fascination with the phenomena of seeing and being seen: perception, reception and projection, as well as that of genre construction, specifically in relation to the gothic and the slave narrative. She is the author of Unexplained Presence (Leon Works, 2007), a collection of hybrid essays on myth-making and black presences in film, literature and visual art; co-editor/founder (with Miranda Mellis and Kate Schatz) of the cross-referenced journal of narrative and storytelling possibility, The Encyclopedia Project, which published Encyclopedia Vol. 2 F-K, in 2010, and co-editor (with Ernest Hardy) of War Diaries, an anthology on black gay men's desire and survival that was nominated for a LAMBDA Literary Award. A novel, The Curator, is forthcoming. She teaches fiction/prose, hybrid forms and innovative ethnic literature at the California Institute of the Arts.

Amina Cain is the author of the short story collection I Go To Some Hollow (Les Figues Press, 2009), and an upcoming chapbook called Tramps Everywhere (Insert Press/PARROT Series). A recording of her story "Attached to a Self" was included in the group show A Diamond in the Mud at Literaturhaus Basel in Switzerland in 2008, and in 2010 her work was featured at LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) as part of NOT CONTENT, a series of text projects curated by Les Figues. Several of her stories have been translated into Polish on MINIMALBOOKS, and a French translation of "Black Wings" is just out in Jet d'encre. She lives in Los Angeles.

Event Information:

Thursday, October 27, 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/index.html
For more information, or to sign on to our mailing list to receive announcements of future events, check out our blog:
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Mark Wallace reading at CSU San Marcos, Thursday, Sep 29, 7 p.m.

2011-09-18T09:15:00.000-07:00

Please join us on Thursday, September 29 at 7 p.m. for the next reading in the Community and World Literary Series at California State University, San Marcos, featuring Mark Wallace.

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.

Mark Wallace has just recently published a novel, The Quarry and The Lot (BlazeVox Books, 2011). He is the author of more than fifteen books and chapbooks of poetry, fiction, and essays. Temporary Worker Rides A Subway won the 2002 Gertrude Stein Poetry Award and was published by Green Integer Books. His critical articles and reviews have appeared in numerous publications, and he has co-edited two essay collections, Telling It Slant: Avant Garde Poetics of the 1990s, and A Poetics of Criticism. He has given numerous readings from his books around the country and the world, and his writing has been translated into languages such as French, Portuguese, Finnish, and Serbian. He teaches at California State University San Marcos.

For more information about The Quarry and The Lot, or to purchase a copy, click here.

Click the link Click to Look Inside to read the opening pages.

Event Information:

Thursday, September 29, 7 p.m.
Markstein Hall Room 125
California State University, San Marcos
333 S. Twin Oaks Valley Rd.
Campus Maps and Directions:
http://www.csusm.edu/guide/index.html

Fall 2011 readings in the CSU San Marcos Community and World Literary Series

2011-08-31T10:15:00.000-07:00

September 29: Mark Wallace

October 27: Tisa Bryant and Amina Cain

November 17: Clayton Eshelman

All readings are Thursday nights at 7 p.m.

Room locations will be announced later. Stay tuned for later updates.

Ben Doller reading at CSUSM April 15

2010-03-09T11:15:00.000-08:00

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

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.

Ben Doller is the author of three books: Radio, Radio (LSU Press, 2001, selected for the 2000 Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets by Susan Howe), FAQ: (Ahsahta Press, 2009), and Dead Ahead (Fence Books, 2010). Doller co-edits the Kuhl House Contemporary Poets series from the University of Iowa Press and was recently hired as Assistant Professor in George Mason University's MFA program in Creative Writing. He lives with his lady, Sandra Doller, and their animals.

Event Information:

Thursday, April 15, 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/

Sarah Shun-lien Bynum reading at CSUSM March 4

2010-02-21T09:52:00.000-08:00

Please join us on Thursday, March 4 at 7 p.m. for the next reading in the Community and World Literary Series at California State University, San Marcos, featuring Sarah Shun-lien Bynum.

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.

Sarah Shun-lien Bynum is the author of two novels, Ms. Hempel Chronicles, a finalist for the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award, and Madeleine Is Sleeping, a finalist for the 2004 National Book Award and winner of the Kafka Prize. Her fiction has appeared in several magazines and anthologies, including The New Yorker, Tin House, The Georgia Review, and The Best American Short Stories 2004 and 2009. The recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award and an NEA Fellowship, she directs the MFA program in writing at the University of California, San Diego. She lives in Los Angeles with her family.

Event Information:

Thursday, March 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, or to sign on to our mailing list to receive announcements of future events, check out our website:
http://www.csusm.edu/cwls/

Rae Armantrout reading at CSUSM February 18

2010-01-04T16:00:00.001-08:00

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

The reading will be held on the Cal State San Marcos campus in Commons 206. The event is free and open to the public, but there is a fee for on-campus parking.

Rae Armantrout was a National Book Awards finalist for her most recent book, Versed, published by Wesleyan in 2009. Next Life (Wesleyan, 2007), was chosen as one of the 100 Notable Books of 2007 by The New York Times. Other recent books include Collected Prose (Singing Horse, 2007), Up to Speed (Wesleyan, 2004), The Pretext (Green Integer, 2001), and Veil: New and Selected Poems (Wesleyan University Press, 2001). Her poems have been included in anthologies such as American Hybrid (Norton, 2009), Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology (1993), American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Where Language Meets the Lyric Tradition, (Wesleyan, 2002), The Oxford Book of American Poetry (Oxford, 2006) and The Best American Poetry of 1988, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2007 and 2008. Armantrout received an award in poetry from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts in 2007 and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008. She is Professor of Poetry and Poetics at the University of California, San Diego. Writing in Poetry magazine, Ange Mlinko has said, "I would trade the bulk of contemporary anecdotal free verse for more incisive, chilling poetry like Armantrout's.”

Event Information:

Thursday, February 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/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/

Kate Greenstreet reading at CSUSM Thursday, October 29

2009-10-01T08:58:00.000-07:00

Please join us on Thursday, October 29 at 7 p.m. for the next reading in the Community and World Literary Series at California State University, San Marcos, featuring Kate Greenstreet.

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.

Kate Greenstreet's second book, The Last 4 Things, is new from Ahsahta Press and includes a DVD of two short films made by the author. Her first book, case sensitive, was published by Ahsahta in 2006. She is also the author of three chapbooks, most recently This is why I hurt you (Lame House Press, 2008). Find her poems in current or forthcoming issues of jubilat, VOLT, the Denver Quarterly, Fence, Court Green, and other journals. Visit her online at kickingwind.com.

Event Information:

Thursday, October 29, 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/

Stephen-Paul Martin reading at CSUSM Thursday, September 24

2009-08-27T13:10:00.000-07:00

Please join us on Thursday, September 24 at 7 p.m. for the next reading in the Community and World Literary Series at California State University, San Marcos, featuring Stephen-Paul Martin.

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.

Stephen-Paul Martin has published over twenty books of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction. One of his short story collections, The Gothic Twilight, was nominated for the National Critics Circle Fiction Award in 1993. His most recent collection is The Possibility of Music (FC2). From 1980-1996 he co-edited Central Park, an internationally acclaimed journal of the arts & social commentary. His writings have appeared in over 200 periodicals over the past 30 years, in several different languages. He received his doctorate from New York University in 1983. His next collection of fiction, Changing the Subject, will be published by Ellipsis Press in 2010.

Event Information:

Thursday, September 24, 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/

Fall 2009 Readings at CSUSM

2009-08-27T08:17:00.000-07:00

Fall 2009 readings in the Community and World Literary Series

Thursday, September 24, 7:00 pm
Stephen-Paul Martin
Grand Salon (rm 113) of the M. Gordon Clarke Field House

Thursday, October 29, 7:00 pm
Kate Greenstreet
Grand Salon (rm 113) of the M. Gordon Clarke Field House

Stay tuned for updates and for potential announcements of further events.

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

2009-03-22T11:41:00.001-07:00

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

2009-02-13T08:45:00.000-08:00

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

2009-01-14T14:03:00.000-08:00

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

2009-01-13T09:05:00.000-08:00

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

2008-10-13T08:54:00.000-07:00

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

2008-09-19T10:01:00.000-07:00

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

2008-08-28T13:25:00.000-07:00

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/

Barbara Henning at CSUSM Thursday, April 24

2008-04-12T08:35:00.000-07:00

Please join us on Thursday, April 24 at 7 p.m. for the next reading in the Community and World Literary Series at California State University, San Marcos, featuring Barbara Henning.

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.

Barbara Henning is the author of two novels (Black Lace and You, Me and the Insects) as well as several books of poetry, including Detective Sentences, Love Makes Thinking Dark, Smoking in the Twilight Bar, In Between and a series of photo-poem pamphlets. Her most recent book is a collection of sonnets, My Autobiography (United Artists, 2007). Thirty Miles to Rosebud, prose and poetry, is forthcoming from Spuyten Duyvil. In the 90's Henning was the editor of Long News in the Short Century. She was born in Detroit, relocated to New York City in the early eighties and has recently moved to Tucson. Presently she is teaching workshops for the University of Arizona's Poetry Center as well as for Naropa's MFA program. She is Professor Emerita from Long Island University in Brooklyn.

Event Information:

Thursday, April 24, 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/

Joyelle McSweeney at CSUSM Thursday, April 10

2008-03-21T14:02:00.001-07:00

Please join us on Thursday, April 10 at 7 p.m. for the next reading in the Community and World Literary Series at California State University, San Marcos, featuring Joyelle McSweeney.

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.

One of the most exciting new talents in contemporary American literature, Joyelle McSweeney is the author of two novels of speculative fiction, Nylund, the Sarcographer, a baroque noir from Tarpaulin Sky, Press, and Flet, a sci-fi from Fence Books. She is also the author of two books of poetry, The Commandrine and Other Poems, and The Red Bird, both also from Fence. With Johannes Göransson, she is the co-founder of Action Books and Action, Yes, a press and web-quarterly for international writing and hybrid forms. She teaches in the MFA program at Notre Dame and lives in Mishawaka, Indiana.

Event Information:

Thursday, April 10, 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/

Edwin Torres reading at CSUSM March 20 (rescheduled)

2008-03-09T09:17:00.000-07:00

Please join us on Thursday, March 20 at 7 p.m. for the next reading in the Community and World Literary Series at California State University, San Marcos, featuring Edwin Torres.

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

Edwin Torres has collaborated with a wide range of artists, creating performances that intermingle poetry with vocal & physical improvisation, sound-elements and visual theater. He has received poetry fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, The Foundation For Contemporary Performance Art, The Poets Fund and The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. He has taught workshops at Naropa University, St. Marks Poetry Project, Bard College, Mills College and Miami University, among others. His work has been widely published and his CD Holy Kid (Kill Rock Stars Records) was part of The Whitney Museum’s exhibition, The American Century Pt. II. His books include I Hear Things People Haven’t Really Said, Fractured Humorous (Subpress), The All-Union Day Of The Shock Worker (Roof Books) and The PoPedology Of An Ambient Language (Atelos Books).

Event Information:

Thursday, March 20, 7 p.m.
Markstein Hall, Room 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/

an off campus reading of note: March 1

2008-02-27T16:51:00.000-08:00

A reading by Noah Eli Gordon and Joshua Marie Wilkinson

Agitprop Gallery in North Park, 2837 University Ave. San Diego, California 92104
7:00pm Saturday, March 1st.

Noah Eli Gordon's first book, The Frequencies, was published by San Diego's own Tougher Disguises Press in 2003. Since then, he has had five other books appear, including Novel Pictorial Noise, which was selected by John Ashbery for the National Poetry Series, and published last year by Harper Perennial. Last year also saw the release of Figures for a Darkroom Voice, a book written in collaboration with Joshua Marie Wilkinson. He writes a column on chapbooks for Rain Taxi: Review of Books, and his reviews and essays have appeared in numerous journals, including The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Publishers Weekly, Boston Review, and Denver Quarterly. He teaches creative writing at the University of Colorado in Denver. See him reading with Joshua Marie Wilkinson here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=aSENrRf0pNw

Joshua Marie Wilkinson is the author of Suspension of a Secret in Abandoned Rooms (Pinball, 2005), Lug Your Careless Body out of the Careful Dusk (U of Iowa, 2006), and The Book of Whispering in the Projection Booth (forthcoming from Tupelo Press). He holds a PhD from University of Denver and lives in Chicago where he teaches at Loyola University. His first film, Made a Machine by Describing the Landscape, a documentary about the band Califone, is due out next year. He curates Rabbit Light Movies, a website devoted to short poem-films, and recently co-edited an anthology of conversations between younger poets and their elders, which is forthcoming from the University of Iowa Press. See him reading with Noah Eli Gordon here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=aSENrRf0pNw

Canceled: Edwin Torres reading tonight (2/21) at CSUSM

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Edwin Torres is ill, and we regret that this evening's Community and World Literary Series event has been canceled. We are hoping to reschedule this event for some time in March, so please be on the lookout for updates.

Edwin Torres reading at CSUSM Feb 21

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Please join us on Thursday, February 21 at 7 p.m. for the next reading in the Community and World Literary Series at California State University, San Marcos, featuring Edwin Torres.

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.

Edwin Torres has collaborated with a wide range of artists, creating performances that intermingle poetry with vocal & physical improvisation, sound-elements and visual theater. He has received poetry fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, The Foundation For Contemporary Performance Art, The Poets Fund and The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. He has taught workshops at Naropa University, St. Marks Poetry Project, Bard College, Mills College and Miami University, among others. His work has been widely published and his CD Holy Kid (Kill Rock Stars Records) was part of The Whitney Museum’s exhibition, The American Century Pt. II. His books include I Hear Things People Haven’t Really Said, Fractured Humorous (Subpress), The All-Union Day Of The Shock Worker (Roof Books) and The PoPedology Of An Ambient Language (Atelos Books).

Event Information:

Thursday, February 21, 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/

What's Happening in Spring 2008

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Hello CSUSM Community and Friends:

I just wanted to let you know about events coming this spring in the CSUSM Community and World Literary Series and some ways of keeping informed about them. I hope you will consider coming out to join us for what should be an exciting spring of excellent literary events.

An anthology of work by past writers in the series can be found on our website:

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

Other occasional updates about the series can be found at our literary series blog:

http://cwls.blogspot.com/

Please feel free to post any comments about these events on the blog.

Also, if you would like announcements of these readings sent to you individually, or you know someone on or off campus who might like to receive information about the readings, you will find a link at both the website and the blog where people can add an e-mail address and subscribe to the newsletter.

All on campus readings this spring are free and take place Thursdays at 7 p.m. The readings are currently scheduled to be held in the Grand Salon (room 113) of the M. Gordon Clarke Field House, although changes in location are possible. Location information will be sent out with the announcement for each reading.

Coming to campus in spring 2008:

February 21: Edwin Torres. Internationally known poet and performance artist Edwin Torres has to be seen and heard to be believed, and now you’re going to get your chance. He is one of the most well-known authors from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in New York City, which has been featured in several television documentaries, including The United States of Poetry.

April 10: Joyelle McSweeney. McSweeney is one of the up-and-coming young stars of American literature, the author of several books of poetry and two recent books of speculative fiction.

April 24: Barbara Henning. Novelist and poet, Henning is one of the most adventurous figures in contemporary literature. Whether she’s writing about inner city Detroit, other places where she’s lived like New York City or Santa Fe, or of her many long visits to India, Henning’s work is always startling and thought-provoking and concerned with both daily life and the spiritual.

Also, please be aware of the following special off campus event, not sponsored by CSUSM but featuring one of our own community members. On Tuesday, February 5 at 6 p.m., CSUSM Professor Sandra Doller will be reading along with Fanny Howe at the San Diego Museum of Art as part of the Poets in the Galleries series. More information about that event can be found at:

http://www.sdmart.org/calendar-poets-in-the-galleries.html

I look forward to seeing you at events this spring.

Mark

Spring 2008 events

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Thursday, February 21: Edwin Torres

Thursday, April 10: Joyelle McSweeney

Thursday, April 24: Barbara Henning

All readings are at 7 p.m.

Readings will be held in the Grand Salon (Rm. 113) of M. Gordon Clarke Field House. Location is subject to change, so please check back for updates.

Joanne Kyger at CSUSM Thursday, Nov 15

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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/
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/

K. Silem Mohammad at CSUSM Thursday, Nov 1

2007-10-08T09:08:00.000-07:00

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

2007-09-10T16:28:00.000-07:00

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

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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

2007-04-15T09:30:00.000-07:00

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

2007-03-17T14:59:00.000-07:00

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.

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

2007-02-28T08:36:00.000-08:00

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.

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

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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

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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.