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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=red face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red'>REMINDER: Please join us on Tuesday, April
5th for a poetry reading with Lorna Dee Cervantes.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>Susan Brown<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Riverside</st1:place></st1:City><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>(951)827-1456<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Susan Brown
[mailto:<st1:PersonName w:st="on">susan.brown@ucr.edu</st1:PersonName>] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, March 30, 2011
8:25 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">'gsa-english@lists.ucr.edu'</st1:PersonName>;
(englecturers@listserv.ucr.edu); <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Adriana Craciun</st1:PersonName>;
<st1:PersonName w:st="on">Andrea Denny-Brown</st1:PersonName>; Carole-Anne
Tyler; Deborah Willis; Erica Edwards; <st1:PersonName w:st="on">George Haggerty</st1:PersonName>;
<st1:PersonName w:st="on">'Heidi Brayman Hackel'</st1:PersonName>; <st1:PersonName
w:st="on">James Tobias</st1:PersonName>; <st1:PersonName w:st="on">James Tobias</st1:PersonName>;
Jennifer Doyle; <st1:PersonName w:st="on">John Briggs</st1:PersonName>; John
Ganim; <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Joseph Childers</st1:PersonName>; 'Katherine
Kinney'; '<st1:PersonName w:st="on">Keith Harris</st1:PersonName>'; <st1:PersonName
w:st="on">Keith Harris</st1:PersonName> (keith.harris@ucr.edu); Kimberly
Devlin; <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Michelle Raheja</st1:PersonName>; 'Rise
Axelrod'; Rob Latham; <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Stanley Stewart</st1:PersonName>;
<st1:PersonName w:st="on">Steve Axelrod</st1:PersonName>; <st1:PersonName
w:st="on">Susan Zieger</st1:PersonName>; Traise Yamamoto; Vorris Nunley; <st1:PersonName
w:st="on">Weihsin Gui</st1:PersonName>; <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Weihsin Gui</st1:PersonName>;
Cindy Redfield; Linda Nellany; Tina Feldmann<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Lorna Dee Cervantes
Poetry Reading-time and location change</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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size=4 color=red face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;
color:red'>Please note the time and location change.<o:p></o:p></span></font></u></p>
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size=4 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:Tahoma'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><font
size=4 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:Tahoma'>“I
am not driven, so much, by intentions, as I am stunned into being by intent”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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size=4 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:Tahoma'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><font
size=6 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:22.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Poetry <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Reading</st1:City></st1:place> with Lorna Dee
Cervantes<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><font
size=5 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Tuesday,
April 5</span></font><font size=4 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:13.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma'>th</span></font><font size=5 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>, <b><u><span style='font-weight:
bold'>1:30 p.m.- 3:00 p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><b><u><font
size=5 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:
bold'>Arts 335<o:p></o:p></span></font></u></b></p>
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size=5 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><font
size=4 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>One of the
preeminent voices in Chicana literature and American poetry,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><font
size=4 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Lorna Dee
Cervantes is a dynamic poet whose work draws tremendous power<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><font
size=4 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>from her struggles
in the literary and political trenches. Her power is channeled<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><font
size=4 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>by a keen
intellect and careful attention to craft, which allows her to explore the<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><font
size=4 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>boundaries
between language and experience. Joy Harjo says of her poetry,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><font
size=4 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>"Lorna
Dee Cervantes is a daredevil... We are transfixed as she juggles rage,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><font
size=4 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>cruelties,
passion. There is no net. Seven generations uphold the trick of survival.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><font
size=4 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>No one is
alone in this amazing act of love."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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size=4 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><font
size=4 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Cervantes'
first book, </span></font><font size=4 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:14.5pt;
font-family:Tahoma'>Emplumada </span></font><font size=4 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>(University of Pittsburgh, 1981),
was a<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><font
size=4 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>recipient
of the American Book Award. Her second collection, </span></font><font size=4
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:Tahoma'>From the Cables
of<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><font
size=4 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Genocide:Poems
on Love and Hunger </span></font><font size=4 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>(Arte Público, 1991) was awarded
the<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><font
size=4 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Patterson
Poetry Prize, the poetry prize of the Institute of Latin American<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><font
size=4 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Writers, and
the Latino Literature Award. Her most recent work, </span></font><font size=4
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Drive: The First<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><font
size=4 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Quartet</span></font><font
size=4 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>, was
published in 2006.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><font
size=4 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Sponsored
by Chicano Student Programs, the Department of English, The Center for Ideas
and<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><font
size=4 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Society,
the College for Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences, the MFA Program in
Creative Writing and<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><font
size=4 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Writing
for the Performing Arts, the Department of Theatre, and MALCS de UCR.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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size=4 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Tahoma'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>For more
information contact llasa001@ucr.edu</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Susan Brown<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
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