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/

Barbara Henning at CSUSM Thursday, April 24

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

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.