Joyelle McSweeney at CSUSM Thursday, April 10

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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.