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

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.

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
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Mark Wallace reading at CSU San Marcos, Thursday, Sep 29, 7 p.m.

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.

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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

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.