This Friday 11/21: Jocelyn Saidenberg and Beth Murray!

Friday, November 21, 2008 at 7:30 p.m.
Timken Lecture Hall
Refreshments will be served

Jocelyn Saidenberg is the author of Dispossessed (Belladonna, 2007), Negativity (Atelos, 2006), Dusky (Belladonna, 2002), CUSP (Kelsey Street Press, 2001), and Mortal City (Parenthesis Writing Series, 1998). She is an editor and publisher of KRUPSKAYA Books, a small press publishing collective, and also works as a librarian at the San Francisco Public Library. Born in New York City, she currently lives in San Francisco.

Beth Murray practices homeopathy for people and animals. Since she became a homeopath, she mostly reads materia medica and doesn't submit her work to magazines. She is in the process of a adopting a child from the foster system. She lives in Alameda with her dog, Laney. The Island has everything to do with her experience there.

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Friday 11/14: Joan Larkin & Sandy Florian

Friday, November 14, 7:30 p.m.
Timken Lecture Hall, CCA
Refreshments will be served

Joan Larkin’s My Body: New and Selected Poems received the Publishing Triangle’s 2008 Audre Lorde Award. David Ulin of the Los Angeles Times has called Larkin’s voice “unsentimental, ruthless and clear-eyed…. This is poetry without pity, in which despair leads not to degradation but to a kind of grace.” Her previous books include Housework, A Long Sound, Sor Juana’s Love Poems (translated with Jaime Manrique), and Cold River, winner of a Lambda Award. Larkin co-founded Out & Out Books during the feminist literary explosion of the seventies and co-edited the groundbreaking anthologies Amazon Poetry and Lesbian Poetry with Elly Bulkin and Gay and Lesbian Poetry in Our Time with Carl Morse. Her collection A Woman Like That was nominated for Publishing Triangle and Lambda nonfiction prizes in 2000. Larkin teaches in Drew University’s low-residency MFA program in Poetry and Poetry in Translation and will be Wichita State University’s Spring ‘09 Visiting Poet.

Sandy Florian is the author of Telescope (Action Books, 2006), 32 Pedals & 47 Stops (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2007), The Tree of No (Action Books, 2008), and Of Wonderland & Waste (the launching Sidebrow Press, 2009). She lives and works in San Francisco.




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This Friday 11/7: C.S. Giscombe & Caroline Bergvall

Caroline Bergvall and C.S. Giscombe

Friday, November 7, 2008 at 7:30 p.m.
Timken Lecture Hall
Refreshments will be served

Caroline Bergvall (London) is a writer and poet. Her latest collection of texts was entitled FIG (Salt, 2005), part 2 of her series Goan Atom (volume first published by Kruspkaya, 2001). Her work is frequently multilingual, performative and collaborative. She has developed audioworks, visual textwork, net-based pieces, live performances, both in Europe, Scandinavia and in North America. Recent presentations include. readings at MOMA (NY'2007 and 2008), as part of their Modern Poet Series, MOCA (LA,07), Digital Writing evening (Tate Modern, April'08); the earlier project Say: "Parsley", a sound and language installation, has just been re-sited at Museum of Contemporary Arts (MuKHa, Antwerp, May-Aug 08); new pieces from her text cycle Shorter Chaucer Tales were presented at DIA Arts Foundation (NY June'08 ) and published by Belladonna as a one-off "Alyson Singes", as well as new chapbooks published in Scandinavia. Recent writer's talk and presentation at the Conceptual Poetry and its Other symposium (Tucson, Arizona May'08), as well as readings in Sweden (October'08). Her critical work is concerned with performativity, mixed-media writings and multilingual poetics. Director of Performance Writing, Dartington College of Arts (1995-2000); Dartington Fellow (2000-2006); Co-Chair of the MFA Writing Faculty, Bard College (2004-2007). She is currently the recipient of an AHRC Arts Fellowship in Britain (2007-2010).

C. S. Giscombe teaches at UC Berkeley and lives in Oakland. He has received awards and grants from the Canadian Embassy, Fund for Poetry, Council for the International Exchange of Scholars, and others. His recent poetry books are Here, Giscome Road, and Prairie Style; his prose book (about black Canada) is Into and Out of Dislocation. His work has been included in the Best American Poetry, the Oxford Anthology of African American Poetry, Bluesprint: Black British Columbia Literature and Orature, Lyric Postmodernisms, and elsewhere.

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