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Webcasts available at Media Services: September 30 Kip Fulbeck is Professor of Art at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Permanence: Tattoo Portraits; Part Asian, 100% Hapa; Paper Bullets: A Fictional Autobiography; and an upcoming work, Mixed: Portraits of Multiracial Kids, in addition to several short films including Banana Split and Lilo & Me. October 7 Monique Truong, author of The Book of Salt and co-editor of Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry & Prose, lives in New York City. Her work has been published in literary journals and anthologies such as the Amerasia Journal; Vietnam: Diaries in Dialogue; Bold Words: A Century of Asian American Writing; and A Century of Asian American Writing; and An Interethnic Companion to Asian American Literature. October 14 Sesshu Foster has taught writing in East Los Angeles for 20 years in addition to teaching at the University of Iowa, the California Institute for the Arts, and UC Santa Cruz. He is the author of Atomik Aztex; World Ball Notebook; American Loneliness: Selected Poems; and City Terrace Field Manual, a finalist for the PEN Center West Poetry Prize. He also co-edited Invocation LA: Urban Multicultural Poetry. October 21 Lucille Clifton has played an important role at many universities, including Coppin State College, Columbia University, George Washington University, St. Mary's College of Maryland, Dartmouth, and UC Santa Cruz. She is the author of thirteen works of poetry over the span of forty years, form her first work, Good Times, to her most recent, Voices. She has also penned a memoir, Generations: A Memoir. Clifton was Maryland's Poet Laureate from 1979-1985 and has been the recipient of countless awards. October
28 Celebrate Halloween like a Lit Major! This year, the Creative Writing Program will celebrate Halloween in style with the first Dead Writers Night! Students and Faculty alike are invited to dress up as their favorite deceased author or poet and will be afforded the opportunity to read some work by the writer of their choice. Dead Writers Night will provide Creative Writing students with more opportunities to read aloud before a large audience with all the fun of dressing in costume! November 4 Mark Nowak is a poet, social critic, labor activist, and author of, among others, Coal Mountain Elementary and Shut Up Shut Down, a New York Times "Editor's Choice." His work has also been included in Goth: Undead Subculture and American Poets in the 21st Century: the New Poetics. Nowak is "regenerating the rich tradition of working-class literature," encouraging students to engage in all forms of poetry and expression, not just those found in mainstream literature and art. He is also the editor of the journal, XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics. November 11 November 18 Maxine H. Kingston's reading has been canceled/rescheduled for Spring 2010. We look forward to Maxine's visit to UCSC next year! November 25 December 2 For more information about these presentations contact the Creative Writing Program Coordinator at (831) 459-2167; cwintern@gmail.com. Sponsored by the Literature Department and the Creative Writing Program, the Laurie Sain Creative Writing Fund, the Center for Cultural Studies, the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund, the James Irvine Foundation, the Chancellor's Diversity Award, and the Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center.
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