[Cwgrad-announcements] Fwd: Juan Felipe Herrera wins 2008 Pen Oakland Award for 187 Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross...
rrussin at ucr.edu
rrussin at ucr.edu
Sun Nov 16 14:28:08 PST 2008
Wow, fantastic news! Many congrats! Talk about being on fire--!
Robin Russin
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>Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 12:02:55 -0800
>From: cwhitney <chuck.whitney at ucr.edu>
>Subject: [Cwgrad-announcements] Fwd: Juan Felipe Herrera wins 2008 Pen Oakland Award for 187 Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross...
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>
> 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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