[Cwgrad-announcements] FW: National Poetry Month Events @ Cal State Fullerton

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From: Maurya Simon [mailto:maurya.simon at ucr.edu] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 10:00 AM
To: Amanda J Labagnara
Subject: Fwd: National Poetry Month Events @ Cal State Fullerton

 


Hi Amanda,

Pleae forward this announcement to all our faculty and graduate students.
Many thanks, Maurya





1. Celebrating Diversity and the Creative Spirit - National Poetry Month,
April 2006
<http://www.library.fullerton.edu/content/administrationunit/general/whatsha
ppening/NationalPoetryMonth_2006_April.htm>
http://www.library.fullerton.edu/content/administrationunit/general/whatshap
pening/NationalPoetryMonth_2006_April.htm
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.

A Poetry Resource Guide at:
http://guides.library.fullerton.edu/featured_reference_books/2006.04_april.h
tm
--A selective list of reference books, journals/magazines, websites on
poetry as well as Los Angeles/Orange County Poetry Venues
 
April 24, 2006
Featuring Maurya Simon
Poet and Professor of Creative Writing at UC Riverside will offer a talk on
poetry and give a public reading on Monday, April 24.
http://www.creativewriting.ucr.edu/people/simon/
Time: Monday, April 24
12noon-1:00pm, Talk/Reading by Maurya Simon, "The Poetry of Witness" 
1:00-2:30pm, Cal State Fullerton Community and Featured Poet Reading 
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April 26, 2006 
Featuring Alberto Rios
Poet, Regents' Professor and Katharine C. Turner Chair in English at Arizona
State University, will offer a craft class in poetry and give a public
reading on Wednesday, April 26.š 
Time: Wednesday, April 26
12noon-1:00pm, Lecture by Alberto Rios, "New, News, Newest: What Should We
Be Looking"
5:00pm-7:00pm, Cal State Fullerton Community and Featured Poet Reading 
 
2. Memory and Migration: Conversation with Chinese Women Writers 
http://www.library.fullerton.edu/content/administrationunit/general/whatshap
pening/MemoryAndMigration.htm
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.  
 
April 20, 2006
Featuring Chun Yu 
Whose awards include 2006 Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young
People, 2005 Parents Choice Award, and other awards, will read and discuss
her book, Little Green: Growing Up During the Chinese Cultural Revolution
(Simon & Schuster, 2005).
Time: Thursday, April 20, 2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
 
May 4, 2006
Featuring Yiyun Li
Winner of the 2006 PEN/Hemingway Award and the inaugural Frank O'Connor
International Short Story Award (2005) for her first collection of short
stories, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (Random House, 2006), will read
and discuss her book. 
Time: Thursday, May 4, 2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Location for All the Above Events
Cal State Fullerton " Room 130 " Pollak Library
Contact: Jie Tian, jtian at fullerton.edu; (714) 278-2569
Cost: Free. Refreshments will be served. 
Campus Map/Direction: http://www.fullerton.edu/campusmap/ 
Visitor parking $5.

 
 

Maurya Simon

Professor 
Department of Creative Writing
University of California Riverside
900 University Avenue
Riverside, CA 92521-0318

TEL. (951) 827-2006 (office)

FAX: (951) 827-3619 

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