[CW-Grad] poets Maurice Kilwein Guevara & Sesshu Foster reading Wednesday 5/19!

[Ching-In Chen]

Please help spread the word for what will be an amazing afternoon of poetry!

Thanks!

Ching-In


a poetry reading by

Maurice Kilwein-Guevara

& Sesshu Foster

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*Wednesday, May 19, 2010, 11-1pm, INTS 1111*

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*Maurice Kilwein Guevara* was born in Belencito, Colombia in 1961 and raised
in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  He is Professor of English at the University
of Wisconsin—Milwaukee, where he teaches in the MA and PhD Programs in
Creative Writing as well as in the Latino Studies Program.  He is the author
of *Postmortem, Poems of the River Spirit*, *Autobiography of So-and-so:
Poems in Prose* and *POEMA*.  He has served on the Board of Directors of the
Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) and was the first Latino
to be elected as its President.


*Sesshu Foster *is a contemporary poet whose work examines how people of
different ethnic backgrounds interact within the power structure of Los
Angeles and how they affect the cultural composition of the city.  He
has taught
composition and literature in East L.A. for 20 years.  His most recent books
are the novel *Atomik Aztex* and *World Ball Notebook.*


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Sponsored by the The Tomás Rivera Endowment and

The Department of Creative Writing


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Ching-In Chen
THE HEART'S TRAFFIC (Arktoi Books/Red Hen Press 2009)
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