[Cwgrad-announcements] OTIS Spring 2007 Visiting Writers Series

[Gabriela Jauregui]

Some interesting events at OTIS... Check them out if you're planning
to be in LA or live around here...
best,
gaby

SPRING 2007 VISITING WRITERS SERIES
GRADUATE STUDIES: WRITING
OTIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN
>
AT THE GOLDSMITH CAMPUS
9045 Lincoln Boulevard, Los Angeles CA 90045
The Forum, Ahmanson Hall
>
>All Wednesday readings begin at 7:30 p.m. and are free of charge but seating
>is
>limited.
>
>January 24:  Paul La Farge
>
>Paul La Farge is the author of two novels, The Artist of the Missing and
>Haussmann, or the Distinction, _which was a New York Times Notable Book in
>2001.
>His _stories have appeared in Fence, Story, and McSweeney's. La Farge _won
>the
>Bard Fiction Prize in 2005 and his _translation of Paul Poissel's The Facts
>of
>Winter was_ published by McSweeney's Books in 2005.  He lives in Brooklyn.
>
>February 7:  Jeff Clark and Claudia Rankine
>
>Poet Jeff Clark has been called "a real 'fin de millennium' decadent."  He
>is
>the author of The Little Door Slides Back and Music and Suicide, which won
>the
>James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets.  He lives in
>Ypsilanti,
>Michigan.
>
>Clauda Rankine is the author of four volumes of poetry, Don't Let Me Be
>Lonely,
>PLOT, The End Of The Alphabet, and  Nothing in Nature is Private, and
>co-editor
>of  American Woman Poets in the Twenty-First Century.  A recipient of the
>James
>Merrill Fellowship from the Academy of American Poetry, Rankine teaches at
>Pomona College.
>
>February 21:  Ben Ehrenreich and Dennis Phillips
>
>Noted critic and journalist Ben Ehrenreich's reporting has taken him from
>Afghanistan to Haiti and all over the United States. His articles and essays
>have been published in L.A. Weekly, the Village Voice, the Believer, the Los
>Angeles Times, and the New York Times. His fiction has appeared in Bomb,
>McSweeney's, Black Clock, and Swink. His work has been reprinted in
>anthologies
>including The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2004, The Believer Book of
>Writers Talking to Writers, Notes from Underground: The Most Outrageous
>Stories
>from the Alternative Press, and The World's Best Sex Writing 2005.  His
>first
>novel, The Suitors, was published in 2006 by Counterpoint Press.  Ehrenreich
>lives in Los Angeles.
>
>Dennis Phillips is the author of nine books of poetry, most recently Sand in
>2002. His first novel, Hope, was published earlier this year and will be
>followed next year by his selected poems, both from Green Integer.  Phillips
>co-edits the poetry section of the New Review of Literature was a founding
>editor of Littoral Books, the first Book Review Editor of Sulfur and the
>L.A.
>Weekly's first poetry editor.  He teaches at Art Center and in the Graduate
>Writing Program at Otis.
>
>March 7: Paul Vangelisti and Catherine Wagner
>
>Founding Chair of the Graduate Writing Program at Otis, Paul Vangelisti is
>the
>author of some twenty books of poetry including Alphabets and Embarrassment
>of
>Surival:  Selected Poems 1970-2000, as well as the editor of numerous
>anthologies and a noted translator from the Italian and the French.  His
>most
>recent work includes the poetry collections Days Shadows Pass and Caper, a
>collaboration with poet Ray di Palma and artists Roy Dowell and Don Suggs,
>and
>the second of a projected five-volume anthology series for Mondadori
>Publishers
>in Italy, New American Poetry: San Francisco (edited with Luigi Ballerini).
>With Lucia Re, Vangelisti translated Amelia Rosselli's War Variations, which
>won
>both the 2006 Ennio Flaiano Prize for Literary Translation in Italy
>and the PEN West Translation Prize.
>
>Catherine Wagner's collections of poems include Macular Hole, Miss America,
>and
>many chapbooks. New poems and essays appeared recently in Verse, How2, Five
>Fingers Review, Action Yes, Soft Targets, and the New Review of Literature.
>Two
>compilations she is editing, A Poetry and Politics Primer and an anthology
>of
>poetry by mothers will be published by Fence in 2007.  She teaches at Miami
>University in Ohio.
>
>March 28:  Andrew Sean Greer
>
>Andrew Sean Greer is the author of the story collection How It Was for Me
>and
>the novel The Path of Minor Planets.  After John Updike reviewed his second
>novel, The Confessions of Max Tivoli, in The New Yorker and called it
>"enchanting, in the perfumed, dandified style of disenchantment brought to
>grandeur by Proust and Nabokov," the book was then chosen for the Today Show
>Book Club and became a national bestseller.  With Max, Greer went on to win
>the
>New York Public Library Young Lions Award.  His work regularly appears in
>Esquire, The Paris Review, and The New Yorker.  He lives in San Francisco.
>
>April 11:  OTIS BOOKS READING:  Beach Birds by Severo Sarduy, translated by
>Suzanne Jill Levine and Carol Maier
>
>This Spring, Otis Books/Seismicity Editions is pleased to publish the first
>North American English-language translation of Beach Birds, the last novel
>written by the Cuban-born Severo Sarduy (1937-1993).  The translators Carol
>Maier and Suzanne Jill Levine will discuss Sarduy's life and legacy as well
>as
>the challenges of translating a writer known for his exquisitely wrought
>baroque
>prose.
>
>Suzanne Jill Levine is a professor of Latin American literature and
>Translation
>Studies at the University of California in Santa Barbara.  Her most recent
>book
>is her literary biography Manuel Puig and the Spider Woman: His Life and
>Fictions.  She has translated work by Puig, Guillermo Cabrera Infante,
>Severo
>Sarduy, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Jose Donoso, Julio Cortazar, Carlos Fuentes,
>Jorge
>Luis Borges, and many others.   Her other books include an early study of
>One
>Hundred Years of Solitude, Guia de Bioy Casares, and The Subversive Scribe:
>Translating Latin American Fiction.  She has won the PEN Award for Career
>Achievement in Hispanic Studies, a Rockefeller Research Residency at the
>Villa
>Serbelloni in Bellagio, and the PEN West Literary Award for Translation.
>She is
>currently working on a memoir.
>
>Carol Maier is a professor of Spanish at Kent State University, where she is
>affiliated with the Institute for Applied Linguistics. Her publications
>include
>Between Languages and Cultures: Translation and Cross-Cultural Texts, which
>she
>co-edited with Anuradha Dingwaney and translations of work by Octavio
>Armand,
>Rosa Chacel, Severo Sarduy, and María Zambrano, among others. Her current
>translation projects include work by Armand, Chacel, Margo Glantz, Nuria
>Amat,
>and Nivaria Tejera; a translation of Tejera's The Ravine is forthcoming from
>SUNY Press and of Chacel's Unreason from the University of Nebraska Press.
>She
>won the MLA's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for an Outstanding Translation
>of
>a Literary Work and the American Literary Translators Association's award
>for
>Outstanding Translation of the Year.
>
>April 18:  OTIS BOOKS READING:  Hence This Cradle by Hélène Sanguinetti,
>translated from the French by Ann Cefola
>
>With Hence This Cradle, Hélène Sanguinetti blends the fairytale world of
>childhood with the sensual world of the adult in a sequence of poetic
>fragments
>that fuse the innocent and the intimate in a single lyric voice.  Otis
>Books/Seismicity Editions recently published Ann Cefola's translation from
>the
>French.
>
>Please join both Hélène Sanguinetti and Ann Cefola for a conversation about
>the
>art of translation moderated by Otis Graduate Writing faculty member and
>noted
>translator Guy Bennett.
>
>Hélène Sanguinetti is the author of three books of poetry: Alparegho,
>Pareil-à-rien, D'ici, de ce berceau, and De la main gauche, exploratrice.
>Her
>work has appeared in a several anthologies, most recently in 49 Poètes and
>L'Année poétique 2005. Recently she collaborated with Anna Baranek on an
>artist's book, Ô III.  Hence This Cradle, Ann Cefola's translation of D'ici,
>de
>ce berceau, is Sanguinetti's first book to appear in English.  She lives in
>Provence.
>
>Ann Cefola's translations have appeared in Circumference, Mantis and Rhino.
>Dancing Girl Press recently published her chapbook, Sugaring.  In 2001, she
>won
>the Robert Penn Warren Award judged by John Ashbery.  Cefola lives in
>Scarsdale,
>New York and works as a creative strategist with her own company, Jumpstart
>LLC.
>
>April 25:  Brian Blanchfield and Elizabeth Robinson
>
>Brian Blanchfield is the author of Not Even Then, a book published in the
>New
>California Poetry Series by UC Press in 2004.  His scholarship and criticism
>have appeared in Bookforum, Harper's, Jubilat, Talisman, and Best American
>Spiritual Writing. He has taught creative writing and literature at Pratt
>Institute of Art in Brooklyn,
>Poets House New York, and the University of Arizona Poetry Center, and
>currently
>teaches at CalArts and in the Graduate Writing Program at Otis.
>
>Elizabeth Robinson is the author of eight collections of poetry, most
>recently
>Under That Silky Roof and Apostrophe.  Robinson has been a winner of the
>Fence
>Modern Poets Prize for Apprehend and the National Poetry Series for Pure
>Descent.  A co-editor of Instance Press and the EtherDome Chapbook Series,
>Robinson teaches creative writing at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
>
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