[Cwgrad-announcements] Fwd: Juan Felipe Herrera wins 2008 Pen Oakland Award for 187 Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross...

[cwhitney]

Way to go JFH!   -- cw


>
> To: charles.whitney at ucr.edu
> Subject: Fwd: Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross the Border:   
> Undocuments 1971—2007 wins 2008 PEN Oakland Award
>
> From: Kim McMillon <kimmac at pacbell.net>
> Date: November 13, 2008 2:16:07 PM PST
> Subject: Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross the Border: Undocuments 1971— 
> 2007 wins 2008 PEN Oakland Award
> Reply-To: kimmac at pacbell.net
>
>
> Dear Professor Herrera,
>
> Congratulations on 187 Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross the Border:  
> Undocuments 1971—2007 winning the 2008 PEN Oakland National  
> Literary Award.  Below is a press release on the event.  We are  
> also creating a press packet, and email postcard.  Could you please  
> send me your photo, and bio via email to be used in the press packet.
>
> I can be reached at (510) 681-5652.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Best,
>
> Kim McMillon
>
> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
> Contact:    Kim McMillon
>                  (510) 681-5652/kimmac at pacbell.net
>                  www.penoakland.org
>
>
> PEN Oakland  & The Oakland Public Library
> Announce the Winners of the
> PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles 18th Annual National Literary Awards &
> 12th Annual PEN Oakland Censorship Award
> Saturday, December 6th, 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM in Oakland
> Free To The Public
>
> (Oakland, CA), November 12, 2008 ---  The Public is invited to  
> attend the PEN Oakland National Literary Awards and ceremony hosted  
> by former San Francisco poet laureate devorah major on Saturday,  
> December 6th from 2-5 PM at the Rockridge Branch Library, located  
> at 5366 College Avenue in Oakland.
>
> Poet Michael McClure, about whom actor Dennis Hopper has said,  
> "Without McClure's roar there would have been no Sixties," will  
> give the keynote address. To quote Wired Magazine ..."Michael  
> McClure [is]a poet who (for fifty years in print) has explored  
> states of freedom with candor and athletic intelligence.”
>
> On Saturday, December 6th, come celebrate well-known and emerging  
> Bay Area and international authors who will be honored for  
> excellence in multicultural literature at the 18th Annual PEN  
> Oakland-Josephine Miles National Literary Awards.
>
> PEN Oakland , A Bay Area Chapter of the International Organization  
> of Poets, Essayists, and Novelists, was founded in 1989 to address  
> multicultural issues, and educate the public as to the nature of  
> multicultural work.  These award-winning authors address the  
> diversity and uniqueness of American culture, and represent the new  
> voices of American literature. The late Josephine Miles, in whose  
> honor the awards are presented, was a highly regarded poet, critic,  
> and professor of English at the University of California in Berkeley .
>
> On May 15th, PEN Oakland Vice President Reginald Lockett died.  In  
> his honor, PEN Oakland has named its Lifetime Achievement Award,  
> the Reginald Lockett Lifetime Achievement Award.  This year's  
> winners are poet Diane di Prima, and playwright Adrienne Kennedy.   
> Allen Ginsberg said of Diane, “A great woman poet in second half of  
> American century, she broke barriers of race-class identity,  
> delivered a major body of verse brilliant in its particularity.”
>
> Adrienne Kennedy was a key figure in the Blacks Arts Movement of  
> the 1960s and 1970s.  She is best known for her first major play  
> “Funnyhouse of a Negro,” winner of the 1964 Obie Award for most  
> distinguished play. In 1995, critic Michael Feingold of the Village  
> Voice declared that "with Beckett gone, Adrienne Kennedy is  
> probably the boldest artist now writing for the theater."
>
> The PEN Oakland Censorship Award will be given to Project Censored,  
> for its ongoing research on national news stories ignored,  
> misrepresented or censored by the U.S. corporate media, in  
> particular important stories about the nationwide move to impeach  
> President George W. Bush and the fact that over one million Iraqis  
> have lost their lives since the 2003 invasion, with more than 50%  
> of those deaths attributable to U.S. troops and their allies. Based  
> on the premise that an uninformed or misinformed public cannot make  
> valid policy decisions via the ballot box, PEN Oakland honors this  
> organization for their efforts to bring facts to light that are  
> willfully buried by many mainstream media outlets.
>
> A reception will be held after the awards where the public will  
> have an opportunity to meet the authors, and purchase signed copies  
> of their award winning books.   During the program, winners will be  
> presented with a plaque and asked to read selections from their work.
>
> This event is free to the public. For more information, please call  
> (510) 681-5652.
>
> 2008 Josephine Miles National Literary Awards winners are:
>
> Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics (Essays) by  
> Rebecca Solnit ( University of California Press)
>
> 187 Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross the Border: Undocuments 1971—2007  
> (Poetry & Short Stories) by Juan Felipe Herrera (City Lights)
>
> Sleeping with the Moon (Poetry) by Colleen J. McElroy ( Illinois  
> Poetry Series)
>
> The Stillness of Love and Exile (Fiction) by Rosa Martha Villarreal  
> (Tertulia Press)
>
> Dude, Where's My Black Studies Department? The Disappearance of  
> Black Americans from U.S. Universities (Non-Fiction) by Cecil Brown  
> ( North Atlantic Books)
>
> Apex Hides the Hurt: A Novel (Fiction) by Colson Whitehead (Anchor)
>
> About Now: Collected Poems (Poetry) by Joanne Kyger (National  
> Poetry Foundation)
>
>
> National in scope, the PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Literary Awards  
> represent a new perception of multicultural literature that does  
> not seek validation from the literary establishment, but creates  
> its own standards and models of literature.
>
> Past award-winners include: Elmaz Abinader, Mumia Abu-Jamal,  
> Juvenal Acosta, Opal Palmer Adisa, Francisco X. Alarcon, Alfred  
> Arteaga, Marsha Lee Berkman, Eleanor Taylor Bland, Phyllis Burke,  
> Jeffrey Paul Chan, Marilyn Chin, Allen Cohen, Lucha Corpi, Kamau  
> Daaood, Mike Davis, Chitra Divakaruni, Wendy Doniger, Nathan  
> Englander, Ibrahim Fawal, Paul Flores,  Ruth Forman, Maketa Groves,  
> Sam Hamill, Peter J. Harris, Joy Harjo, Jack Hirschman, Ghada  
> Karmi, Sylvia Lopez-Medina, Michael McClure,  David Meltzer, E.  
> Ethelbert Miller, John Mulligan, Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Louis Owens,  
> Robert Parry, Jewel Parker Rhodes, Brenda Lane Richardson, Luis  
> Rodriguez, Jerome Rothenberg, Suhayl Saadi, Elaine Marcus Starkman,  
> Clyde R. Taylor, Clifford E. Trafzer, Gail Tsukiyama,  Jose Garcia  
> Villa, Alma Luz Villanueva, Gerald Vizenor, Sylvia Watanabe, Derek  
> Walcott, Gary Webb, Darryl Babe Wilson, Koon Woon, Andy Ross, and  
> Clive Matson. (partial list)
>
> Co-sponsored by the Oakland Public Library and PEN USA
> ###
> Juan Felipe Herrera, Professor
> Tomás Rivera Endowed Chair
> Gluck Fellows Coordinator
> Department of Creative Writing
> CHASS # 2613
> University of California, Riverside
> (951) 827-5027
>
> www.juanfelipe.org/
> FAX: (951) 827-3619
> www.creativewriting at ucr.edu
> (559) 940-4219

D. Charles Whitney, Professor & Chair
Department of Creative Writing, 4159 INTS
U. of CA, Riverside   Riverside CA 92521
951.827.6076     FAX 951.827.3619



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