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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> Maurya Simon
[mailto:maurya.simon@ucr.edu] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> </span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Wednesday,
April 12, 2006</span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> </span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>10:00 AM</span></font><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Amanda J Labagnara<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Fwd: </span></font><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>National</span></font><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> </span></font><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Poetry</span></font><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> </span></font><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Month</span></font><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> </span></font><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Events</span></font><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> </span></font><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>@</span></font><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> </span></font><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Cal</span></font><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> </span></font><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>State</span></font><font
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</span></font>Hi Amanda,<br>
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Pleae forward this announcement to all our faculty and graduate students.
Many thanks, Maurya<br>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=4 color=maroon face=Georgia><span
style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Georgia;color:maroon;font-weight:bold'>1.
Celebrating Diversity and the Creative Spirit</span></font></b><b><font size=4
color=navy face=Georgia><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Georgia;
color:navy;font-weight:bold'> </span></font></b><b><font size=4 color=maroon
face=Georgia><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Georgia;color:maroon;
font-weight:bold'>– National Poetry Month, April 2006 </span></font><a
href="http://www.library.fullerton.edu/content/administrationunit/general/whatshappening/NationalPoetryMonth_2006_April.htm"><font
size=1 face=Georgia><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Georgia'>http://www.library.fullerton.edu/content/administrationunit/general/whatshappening/NationalPoetryMonth_2006_April.htm</span></font></a></b><b><font
size=1 face=Georgia><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Georgia;
font-weight:bold'><br>
</span></font></b><font size=1 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:7.5pt;
font-family:Verdana'>This series will engage the Cal State Fullerton campus and
the larger community in celebration of the diversity and creativity of all
human beings. Two featured poets will join the CSUF community in lectures and
readings to commemorate National Poetry Month and National Library Week in
April 2006.<br>
</span></font><font size=1 color=maroon face=Georgia><span style='font-size:
7.5pt;font-family:Georgia;color:maroon'><br>
A Poetry Resource Guide</span></font><font size=1 color=navy face=Georgia><span
style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Georgia;color:navy'> at: <a
href="http://guides.library.fullerton.edu/featured_reference_books/2006.04_april.htm">http://guides.library.fullerton.edu/featured_reference_books/2006.04_april.htm</a><br>
</span></font><font size=1 face=Georgia><span style='font-size:7.5pt;
font-family:Georgia'>--A selective list of reference books, journals/magazines,
websites on poetry as well as Los Angeles/Orange County Poetry Venues<br>
</span></font><b><font size=4 color=maroon face=Georgia><span style='font-size:
13.5pt;font-family:Georgia;color:maroon;font-weight:bold'> <br>
</span></font></b><b><font size=4 color=maroon face=Georgia><span
style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Georgia;color:maroon;font-weight:bold'>April
24, 2006</span></font></b><b><font size=4 color=maroon face=Georgia><span
style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Georgia;color:maroon;font-weight:bold'><br>
</span></font></b><b><font size=4 face=Georgia><span style='font-size:13.5pt;
font-family:Georgia;font-weight:bold'>Featuring Maurya Simon<br>
</span></font></b><font size=1 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:7.5pt;
font-family:Verdana'>Poet and Professor of Creative Writing at UC Riverside
will offer a talk on poetry and give a public reading on Monday, April 24. </span></font><a
href="http://www.creativewriting.ucr.edu/people/simon/">http://www.creativewriting.ucr.edu/people/simon/</a><br>
<font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Time:
Monday, April 24<br>
12noon-1:00pm, Talk/Reading by Maurya Simon, “The Poetry of
Witness” <br>
</span></font><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>1:00-2:30pm</span></font><font size=2 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>, Cal State Fullerton Community
and Featured Poet Reading <br>
</span></font><b><font size=4 face=Georgia><span style='font-size:13.5pt;
font-family:Georgia;font-weight:bold'>¹<br>
</span></font></b><font color=maroon><span style='color:maroon'><b><font
size=4 face=Georgia><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Georgia;
font-weight:bold'>April 26, 2006</span></font></b></span></font><b><font
size=4 color=maroon face=Georgia><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:
Georgia;color:maroon;font-weight:bold'> <br>
</span></font></b><b><font size=4 face=Georgia><span style='font-size:13.5pt;
font-family:Georgia;font-weight:bold'>Featuring Alberto Rios<br>
</span></font></b><font size=1 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:7.5pt;
font-family:Verdana'>Poet, Regents’ Professor and Katharine C. Turner
Chair in English at </span></font><font size=1 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Verdana'>Arizona</span></font><font
size=1 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Verdana'> </span></font><font
size=1 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Verdana'>State</span></font><font
size=1 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Verdana'> </span></font><font
size=1 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Verdana'>University</span></font><font
size=1 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Verdana'>, will
offer a craft class in poetry and give a public reading on Wednesday, April
26.¹ <br>
</span></font><font face=Verdana><span style='font-family:Verdana'>Time:
Wednesday, April 26<br>
12noon-1:00pm, Lecture by Alberto Rios, “New, News, Newest: What Should
We Be Looking”<br>
</span></font><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>5:00pm-7:00pm</span></font><font size=2 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>, </span></font><font size=2
face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Cal</span></font><font
size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> </span></font><font
size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>State</span></font><font
size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> </span></font><font
size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Fullerton</span></font><font
size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>
Community and Featured Poet Reading <br>
</span></font><font size=1 color=navy face=Georgia><span style='font-size:7.5pt;
font-family:Georgia;color:navy'> <br>
</span></font><b><font size=4 color=maroon face=Georgia><span style='font-size:
13.5pt;font-family:Georgia;color:maroon;font-weight:bold'>2. Memory and
Migration: Conversation with Chinese Women Writers <br>
</span></font></b><b><font size=1 face=Georgia><span style='font-size:7.5pt;
font-family:Georgia;font-weight:bold'><a
href="http://www.library.fullerton.edu/content/administrationunit/general/whatshappening/MemoryAndMigration.htm">http://www.library.fullerton.edu/content/administrationunit/general/whatshappening/MemoryAndMigration.htm</a><br>
</span></font></b><font size=1 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:7.5pt;
font-family:Verdana'>This series brings international and cross-cultural
experiences to Cal State Fullerton and the community. National/international
award-winning Chinese women writers will read from their work and discuss
history, memory, migration, and culture from historical and personal
perspectives. <br>
</span></font><font size=1 face=Arial><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:
Arial'> <br>
</span></font><b><font size=4 color=maroon face=Georgia><span style='font-size:
13.5pt;font-family:Georgia;color:maroon;font-weight:bold'>April 20, 2006</span></font></b><b><font
size=4 color=maroon face=Georgia><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:
Georgia;color:maroon;font-weight:bold'><br>
</span></font></b><b><font size=4 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:13.5pt;
font-family:Verdana;font-weight:bold'>Featuring Chun Yu <br>
</span></font></b><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>Whose awards include <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>2006
Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People, 2005 Parents Choice Award, </span></b>and
other awards<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>, </span></b>will read and
discuss her book, <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Little Green: Growing Up
During the Chinese Cultural Revolution </span></i>(Simon & Schuster, 2005).<br>
Time: Thursday, April 20, </span></font><font size=2 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.</span></font><font
size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'><br>
</span></font><font size=1 face=Arial><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:
Arial'> <br>
</span></font><b><font size=4 color=maroon face=Georgia><span style='font-size:
13.5pt;font-family:Georgia;color:maroon;font-weight:bold'>May 4, 2006</span></font></b><b><font
size=4 color=maroon face=Georgia><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:
Georgia;color:maroon;font-weight:bold'><br>
</span></font></b><b><font size=4 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:13.5pt;
font-family:Verdana;font-weight:bold'>Featuring Yiyun Li<br>
</span></font></b><b><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;font-weight:bold'>Winner of the 2006 PEN/Hemingway Award </span></font></b><font
face=Verdana><span style='font-family:Verdana'>and the inaugural <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award</span></b>
(2005) for her first collection of short stories, <i><span style='font-style:
italic'>A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (Random House, 2006), </span></i>will
read and discuss her book. <br>
</span></font><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>Time: Thursday, May 4, </span></font><font
size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>2:30
p.m. - 4:00 p.m.</span></font><font size=2 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'><br>
</span></font><b><font size=4 color=maroon face=Georgia><span style='font-size:
13.5pt;font-family:Georgia;color:maroon;font-weight:bold'>Location for All the
Above Events<br>
</span></font></b><b><font face=Verdana><span style='font-family:Verdana;
font-weight:bold'>Cal</span></font></b><b><font face=Verdana><span
style='font-family:Verdana;font-weight:bold'> </span></font></b><b><font
face=Verdana><span style='font-family:Verdana;font-weight:bold'>State</span></font></b><b><font
face=Verdana><span style='font-family:Verdana;font-weight:bold'> </span></font></b><b><font
face=Verdana><span style='font-family:Verdana;font-weight:bold'>Fullerton</span></font></b><b><font
face=Verdana><span style='font-family:Verdana;font-weight:bold'> </span></font></b><b><font
color=silver face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial;color:silver;font-weight:
bold'>”</span></font></b><b><font face=Verdana><span style='font-family:
Verdana;font-weight:bold'> Room 130 </span></font></b><b><font color=silver
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial;color:silver;font-weight:bold'>”</span></font></b><b><font
face=Verdana><span style='font-family:Verdana;font-weight:bold'> Pollak Library</span></font></b><br>
<font face=Verdana><span style='font-family:Verdana'>Contact: Jie Tian, <a
href="mailto:jtian@fullerton.edu">jtian@fullerton.edu</a>; (714) 278-2569<br>
Cost: Free. Refreshments will be served. </span></font><br>
<font face=Verdana><span style='font-family:Verdana'>Campus Map/Direction: <a
href="http://www.fullerton.edu/campusmap/">http://www.fullerton.edu/campusmap/</a>
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Visitor parking $5.<br>
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<p></x-sigsep><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><x-sigsep>Maurya
Simon<br>
<br>
Professor <br>
Department of Creative Writing<br>
</span></font><font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>University</span></font><font
size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> of </span></font><font size=2><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>California</span></font><font size=2><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font><font size=2><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Riverside</span></font><font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><br>
</span></font><font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>900 University Avenue</span></font><font
size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><br>
</span></font><font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Riverside</span></font><font
size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>, </span></font><font size=2><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>CA</span></font><font size=2><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'> </span></font><font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>92521-0318</span></font><font
size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><br>
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TEL. (951) 827-2006 (office)<br>
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FAX: (951) 827-3619 </span></font></p>
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