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<td bgcolor="#660066"><b><font color="#FFFFFF">NATIONAL POETRY MONTH--April 2007</font></b></td>
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<p align="center">In celebration of<br>
<b><span style="font-size: 9pt">National Poetry Month, Asian Pacific
American Heritage Month, and National Library Week</span></b><br>
Cal State Fullerton is hosting<br>
<b><font size="4">Peace, Poetry and the World</font></b><br>
featuring readings by poets<br>
<b><font size="4">Shirley Geok-lin Lim</font></b>
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Ilya Kaminsky Majid Naficy</font><font SIZE="2">
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<b>Wednesday, April 25, 2007<br>
Pollak Library Room 130,
Cal State Fullerton</b></td>
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12:00 noon—1:00 pm</span></td>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; color: black">Irena
Praitis </span><font face="Wingdings"><span style="color: black">§</span></font><span style="font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Wingdings; color: #46238D"> </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS">Faculty/Student/Staff Reading<br>
Shirley Geok-lin Lim: Remigrant Asian Americans: Laments and
Celebrations</span></td>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS">2:00 pm — </span>
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4:00 pm — </span>
<span style="font-family: Arial">4</span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial">:45</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS"> pm</span></td>
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<p align="left"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS">Majid
Naficy </span><font face="Wingdings"><span style="color: black">§</span></font><span style="font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Wingdings; color: #46238D"> </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS">World Languages
Session <br>
Stephen Westbrook: Day-Minder: Toward a New Poetry Game Show</span></td>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS">5:00 pm — 6:00 pm<br>
6:00 pm — 7:00 pm</span></td>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS">Ilya Kaminsky: A Poetry
Reading<br>
Acacia </span><font face="Wingdings"><span style="color: black">§</span></font><span style="font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Wingdings; color: #46238D"> </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS">Faculty/Student/Staff Reading</span></td>
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<td width="70%"><b><span style="font-size: 9.5pt">Shirley Geok-lin Lim</span></b><span style="font-size: 9.5pt"> is a professor of English
at UC Santa Barbara. Her research interests include Asian-American
and post-colonial cultural productions and ethnic and feminist
writing. She is the author of five books of poetry, three books of
short stories, a novel, a book of memoirs and two books of criticism,
including “Nationalism and Literature” (1993), “Writing South/East
Asia in English: Against the Grain” (1994); “Among the White Moon
Faces: An Asian-American Memoir of Homelands” (1996), “Joss and
Gold” (2001). She has served as editor of numerous scholarly works,
including “Transnational Asian American Literature: Sites and
Transits) (2006) and is studying gender and nation in Asian-American
representations.<br>
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<i><a href="#Shirley"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt">more information . . .</span></a></i></td>
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<td width="70%"><b>Ilya Kaminsky</b>, an assistant professor of creative
writing at San Diego State University, is the author of “Dancing In
Odessa” (Tupelo Press, 2004), winner of the Whiting Writer’s Award,
the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Metcalf Award, the Dorset
Prize and the Ruth Lilly Fellowship, given by Poetry magazine. The
book also was named “Best Poetry Book of the Year for 2004” by
ForeWord Magazine. Kaminsky also writes poetry in Russian. In the
late 1990s, he co-founded Poets For Peace, an organization that
sponsors poetry readings in the United States and abroad with a
goal of supporting such relief organizations as Doctors Without
Borders and Survivors International. <i><a href="#Ilya">more
information . . .</a></i></td>
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<td width="75%"><font SIZE="2"><b>Majid Naficy </b>was born in
Iran in 1952. His first collection of poems in Persian,<i> In the
Tiger’s Skin</i>, was published in 1969. One year later his book of
literary criticism, <i>Poetry as a Structure</i>, appeared. In 1971 he
wrote a children’s book, <i>The Secret of Words</i>, which won a
national award in Iran.
<p>In the Seventies, Majid was politically active against the
Shah’s regime. After the 1979 Revolution, the new theocratic
regime began to suppress the opposition, and more than ten
relatives, including his first wife Ezzat Tabaian and brother
Sa’id were executed. He fled Iran in 1983 and spent a year and a
half in Turkey and France. Majid then settled in Los Angeles
where he lives with his son, Azad. He has since published eight
collections of poems. <i><a href="#Majid">more information. . .</a></i></font></td>
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<td width="15%" valign="top"><b>Sponsors:</b></td>
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<font color="#575E88"><b>Pollak Library</b></font><br>
<b><font color="#575E88">English Department<br>
Asian American Studies<br>
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<td width="15%" valign="top"><b>Contacts:</b></td>
<td width="85%" valign="top"><font color="#575E88"><b>Barbie McConnell,</b></font> (714) 278-2976,
<a href="mailto:bmcconnell@fullerton.edu" style="text-decoration: none">
bmcconnell@fullerton.edu</a> <br>
<font color="#575E88"><b>Irena Praitis</b></font>, (714) 278-2453,
<a href="mailto:ipraitis@fullerton,edu" style="text-decoration: none">
ipraitis@fullerton.edu</a> <br>
<font color="#575E88"><b>Jie Tian</b></font>, CSUF Librarian, (714)
278-2569,
<a href="mailto:jtian@fullerton.edu" style="text-decoration: none">jtian@fullerton.edu</a></td>
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<b><font color="#FFFFFF">Pollak Library <font face="Webdings"><</font>
California State University, Fullerton<br>
800 N. State College Blvd. <font face="Webdings"><</font>Fullerton
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<p align="left"><b><font color="#FFFFFF"><a name="Shirley">National</a> Poetry Month--April 2007</font></b></td>
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<b><font size="4">Shirley Geok-lin Lim</font></b> <br>
<a href="http://english.ucsb.edu/people-detail.asp?PersonID=24">Shirley
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<b>
<img border="0" src="images/ShirleyWhiteMoonFaceslim_geok-lin_shirley-2_voices-c.jpg" width="100" height="151" align="right">Shirley Geok-lin Lim
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was born in Malacca, Malaysia, came over to the United States as a
Fulbright and Wien International Scholar in 1969, and completed her Ph.D.
in British and American Literature at Brandeis University in 1973. She has
published two critical studies<i>, Nationalism and Literature: Writing in
English from the Philippines and Singapore</i> (1993) and <i>Writing South
East/Asia in English: Against the Grain</i> (1994), and has
edited/co-edited many critical volumes, including <i>Reading the
Literatures of Asian America</i>; <i>Approaches to Maxine Hong Kingston’s
The Woman Warrior</i>; <i>Transnational Asia Pacific</i>;<i> </i>and<i>
Power, Race and Gender in Academe</i>;<i> </i>and three special issues of
journals, <i>Ariel</i> (2001) on microstates, <i>Tulsa Studies</i>, on
transnational feminism, and <i>Studies in the Literary Imagination</i>, on
contemporary Asian American literature. Her work has appeared in journals
such as <i>New Literary History</i>, <i>Feminist Studies</i>, <i>Signs</i>,
<i>MELUS</i>, <i>ARIEL</i>, <i>New Literatures Review</i>, <i>World
Englishes</i>, and <i>American Studies International</i>. She
edited/co-edited <i>Asian American Literature; Tilting the Continent: An
Anthology of South-east Asian American Writing</i>; and <i>The Forbidden
Stitch: An Asian American Women's Anthology </i>which received the 1990
American Book Award.
<p>Among her recent honors, Lim has received the UCSB Faculty Research
Lecture Award (2002) and the Chair Professorship of English at the
University of Hong Kong (1999 to 2000) as well as the University of
Western Australia Distinguished Lecturer award, Fulbright Distinguished
Lecturer award, and the J.T. Stewart Hedgebrook award. She has served as
chair of Women’s Studies and is currently professor of English at the
University of California, Santa Barbara.
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<img border="0" src="images/Shirleysisterswinghi-rescover.jpg" width="100" height="155" align="left">Lim is also recognized as a creative writer. Her first collection
of poems, <i>Crossing the Peninsula</i> (1980), received the Commonwealth
Poetry Prize. She has also published four volumes of poetry: <i>No Man's
Grove</i> (1985); <i>Modern Secrets</i> (1989); <i>Monsoon History</i>
(1994), which is a retrospective selection of her work; and<i> What the
Fortune Teller Didn't Say</i> (1998). Bill Moyers featured Lim for a PBS
special on American poetry, "Fooling with Words" in 1999, and again on the
program “Now” in February 2002. She is also the author of three books of
short stories and a memoir, <i>Among the White Moon Faces</i> (1996),
which received the 1997 American Book Award for non-fiction. Her<b> </b>
first novel, <i>Joss and Gold</i> (Feminist Press, 2001), has been
welcomed by Rey Chow as an “elegantly crafted tale [that] places Lim among
the most imaginative and dexterous storytellers writing in the English
language today.” Her second novel, <i>Sister Swin</i>g, just appeared in
March. </td>
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<b><font color="#FFFFFF">Pollak Library <font face="Webdings"><</font>
California State University, Fullerton<br>
800 N. State College Blvd. <font face="Webdings"><</font>Fullerton
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<p align="left"><b><font color="#FFFFFF"><a name="Ilya">National</a> Poetry Month--April 2007</font></b></td>
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<b><font size="4">
Ilya Kaminsky</font></b><br>
<a href="http://www.ilyakaminsky.com/">Ilya Kaminsky Home Page</a> |
<a href="http://www.ilyakaminsky.com/ContactInformation.html">contact</a></td>
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<span class="posts">
<font color="black" face="georgia" size="2">
<p><a href="https://id281.securedata.net/tupelopress/dancing.shtml">
<img height="149" src="http://www.ilyakaminsky.com/dio1.jpg" width="100" border="0" align="right"></a></font><font color="black" size="2"><b>Ilya
Kaminsky </b>was born in Odessa, former Soviet Union in 1977, and arrived
to the United States in 1993, when his family was granted asylum by the
American government. Ilya is the author of <i>Dancing In Odessa </i>
(Tupelo Press, 2004) which won the Whiting Writer's Award, the American
Academy of Arts and Letters' Metcalf Award, the Dorset Prize, the Ruth
Lilly Fellowship given annually by <i>Poetry</i> magazine. <i>Dancing In
Odessa </i>was also named Best Poetry Book of the Year 2004 by <i>
ForeWord Magazine</i>. </p>
<p><a href="http://ilyakaminsky.com/MusicaHumanaChapbook.html">
<img height="151" src="http://www.ilyakaminsky.com/Musica7.jpg" width="100" border="0" align="left"></a>In
addition, Ilya writes poetry in Russian. His work in that language was
chosen for "Bunker Poetico" at Venice Bienial Festival in Italy. In late
1990s, he co-founded Poets For Peace, an organization which sponsors
poetry readings in the United States and abroad with a goal of supporting
such relief organizations as Doctors Without Borders and Survivors
International. </p>
<p>Ilya has served as a Writer In Residence at Phillips Exeter Academy
and has taught poetry at numerous literary centers. In Fall 2006, he will
begin teaching in the graduate writing program at San Diego State
University. Ilya has also worked as a Law Clerk at the National
Immigration Law Center, and more recently at Bay Area Legal Aid, helping
impovershed and homeless in solving their legal difficulties. He
currently lives in Berkeley, Califonia with his beautiful wife, Katie
Farris. </font> </span></td>
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<img border="0" src="Majid.at.wall.picture.jpg" width="125" height="130" align="right"><b>Majid Naficy </b>was born in Iran in 1952. His first
collection of poems in Persian, <i>In the Tiger’s Skin</i>, was published in
1969. One year later his book of literary criticism, <i>Poetry as a
Structure</i>, appeared.</p>
<p>In 1971 he wrote a children’s book, <i>The Secret of
Words</i>, which won a national award in Iran. </p>
<p>In the Seventies, Majid was politically active against the Shah’s
regime. After the 1979 Revolution, the new theocratic regime began to
suppress the opposition, and more than ten relatives, including his first
wife Ezzat Tabaian and brother Sa’id were executed. He fled Iran in 1983
and spent a year and a half in Turkey and France. Majid then settled in
Los Angeles where he lives with his son, Azad. He has since published
eight collections of poems, <i>After the Silence</i>, <i>Sorrow of the Border</i>,
<i>Poems of Venice</i>, <i>Muddy Shoes</i> (Beyond Baroque Books, 1999),
<i>Twelve Poems
in Love: A Narrative, I Write to Bring You Back, Father & Son</i> (Red Hen
Press, 2003) and <i>Galloping Gazelles</i> as well as four books of essays
<i>In
Search of Joy: A Critique of Death-Oriented, Male-Dominated Culture in
Iran</i>, <i>Poetry & Politics and Twenty-Four Other Essays</i>, <i>The Best of Nima</i>
and <i>I Am Iran Alone and Thirty-Five other Essays</i>. </p>
<p>He holds his doctorate
in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures from the University of California at Los Angeles. His doctoral dissertation,
<i>Modernism and
Ideology in Persian Literature: A Return to Nature in the Poetry of Nima
Yushij</i> was published by University Press of America, Inc. in 1997. </p>
<p>Majid
Naficy is a co-editor of <i>Daftarhaya Kanoon</i>, a Persian periodical published
by Iranian Writers' Association in Exile.</p></font></td>
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