<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Via Susan Straight:</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b><br></b></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>Visiting Writers Series Reading - B.H. Fairchild</b><br></span></div><br><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Robin,<div>A great reading students might like to check out.</div><div>Susan<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">"Rickianne Rycraft" <<a href="mailto:rrycraft@msjc.edu">rrycraft@msjc.edu</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">September 13, 2010 11:18:25 AM PDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>Visiting Writers Series Reading - B.H. Fairchild</b><br></span></div><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Hi All<span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">The Mt. San Jacinto College Menifee Valley Campus English Department and Office of Instruction is pleased to announce that award-winning poet<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>B.H. Fairchild</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is coming to campus. On September 21<sup>st</sup>, Fairchild will read from his critically acclaimed collection of poems<i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i>and engage in a discussion about the craft of writing. B. H. Fairchild’s visit to MSJC is an extraordinary opportunity for students and the public to listen to and interact with an internationally renowned and award-winning American poet. <span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Date: Tuesday, September 21<sup>st</sup><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Time: 12:30 – 1:45pm<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Place: Mt. San Jacinto College, Menifee Valley Campus<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "> 28237 La Piedra Road<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "> 600 Building, Room 600<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "> Menifee, CA<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">The event is free and open to the public. Books will be available for sale at the event. <strong><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">A Note About B.H. Fairchild: <span style="font-size: 12pt; "><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span class="bodyserif1"><b>B.H. Fairchild</b></span><span class="bodyserif1"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>was born in Houston, Texas and, as well as Houston, was raised in small towns in west Texas, Oklahoma, and southwest Kansas. He attended the University of Tulsa and University of Kansas, working part-time as technical writer for a nitroglycerin plant and English tutor to the Kansas basketball team.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><em><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">The Arrival of the Future</span></em><span class="bodyserif1"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>was his first full-length book of poems, originally published by Swallow's Tale Press in 1985 and recently republished in a new edition by Alice James Books. His third book,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><em><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">The Art of the Lathe</span></em><span class="bodyserif1">, won the 1996 Capricorn Award, the Beatrice Hawley Award at Alice James Books in 1997, and was subsequently a Finalist for the National Book Award. It also received the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the Williams Carlos Williams Award, the PEN West Poetry Award, the California Book Award, the Natalie Ornish Award from the Texas Institute of Letters, and an Honorable Mention for the Poet's Prize. His poems have appeared in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><em><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Southern Review</span></em><span class="bodyserif1">,</span><em><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Poetry</span></em><span class="bodyserif1">,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><em><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Hudson Review</span></em><span class="bodyserif1">,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><em><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Yale Review</span></em><span class="bodyserif1">,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><em><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Paris Review</span></em><span class="bodyserif1">,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><em><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">The New Yorker</span></em><span class="bodyserif1">,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><em><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Sewanee Review</span></em><span class="bodyserif1">, and many other journals and in several anthologies, including<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><em><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">The Best American Poems of 2000</span></em><span class="bodyserif1">. He has been the recipient of fellowships and grants from the National Endowment of the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation. Fairchild is also the author of</span><em><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Such Holy Song</span></em><span class="bodyserif1">, a study of William Blake. The American Academy of Arts and Letters recently awarded him the Arthur Rense Poetry Prize for "consistent excellence over a long career."<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">For your convenience, I have attached a flyer with reading information. <o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Thank you,<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Rickianne Rycraft, M.A., M.F.A.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Associate Professor of English<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Chair, English Department<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Coordinator, Visiting Writers Series<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Mt. San Jacinto College<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Menifee Valley Campus<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">28237 La Piedra Road<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Menifee, CA 92584<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">951-639-5642<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div></div></div></span></blockquote></div></div></div></div></body></html>