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

[Chris Abani]

Hermano!

Chris Abani
www.chrisabani.com



On Nov 16, 2008, at 2:28 PM, <rrussin at ucr.edu> wrote:

> Wow, fantastic news! Many congrats! Talk about being on fire--!
>
> Robin Russin
>
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> ---- Original message ----
>> 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...
>> To: Abani Chris <Chris.Abani at ucr.edu>, Tom Lutz <tom.lutz at ucr.edu>,  
>> Juan_Felipe_Herrera Herrera” <juan.herrera at ucr.edu>, Goldberry  
>> Long <goldl at ucr.edu>, Stephanie Hammer <hamm at ucr.edu>, Judy Kronen 
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>> Dean Cullenberg <stephen.cullenberg at ucr.edu>, Bettye Miller <bettye.miller at ucr.edu 
>> >
>>
>>  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
>>    Tom√°s 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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