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/

Reading for April 16

Bernadette Mayer, Midwinter Day, first three sections, 1-55

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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/

Reading for March 26

Lyn Hejinian, My Life, the second half

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Reading for March 19

Lyn Hejinian, My Life, the first half.

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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/

Reading for February 19

From Paraspheres:

Kate Kasten, "Ever and Anon"

Michael Moorcock, "The Third Jungle Book: A Mowgli Story"

Noelle Sickels, "The Tree"

Robin Caton, "B. Longing"

Laura Mullen, "English/History"

also:

Linh Dinh, American Tatts, 59-74

Buck Downs, Marijuana Softdrink 55-71

Now available on CD: Buck Downs, Pontiac Fever

See me or go to: http://www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Downs.html

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Reading for Feb 12

Jacques Derrida, "The Law of Genre" p. 55-66

Reading for February 5

All from Paraspheres:

Editor's Note

Maureen M. McLane, "White Girl"

Paul Pekin, "The Magnificent Carp of Hichi Street"

Editor's Essay: 'Why Fabulist and New Wave Fabulist Stores in an Anthology Named Paraspheres?"

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Reading for January 29

From Paraspheres:

Leena Krohn, "The Son of Chimera"

Stephen Shugart, "Making Faces"

Carol Schwalberg, "The Midnight Lover"

Charlie Anders, "Power Couple, or Love Never Sleeps"

And also:

Linh Dinh, American Tatts up to p. 33

Buck Downs, Marijuana Softdrink up to p. 35

Thoughts on the reading can be posted in the comments link below.

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This blog is a resource designed for students taking LTWR 545, Advanced Creative Writing Workshop, at Cal State San Marcos, and for any other interested parties.