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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Aisha Sasha John
DESCRIPTION:The UC Santa Cruz Creative Writing Program Presents \nAisha Sasha John\, author of THOU (BookThug\, 2014) \nAISHA SASHA JOHN is a singing dancer– and the author of the recently published I have to live. (McClelland & Stewart). Aisha’s previous poetry collection THOU (BookThug 2014) was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry and the ReLit Poetry Award. Later this spring\, Aisha dances the aisha of oz at the Whitney Museum as part of the 2017 Whitney ISP exhibition. Aisha is trained in various Congolese and Ethiopian dances and has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph. She was born in Montreal. \n The Lives of Other Songs\nLiving Writers Series Spring 2017 \nThursdays / 5:20-6:50pm / Humanities Lecture Hall \nApril 13\, 2017: Tongo Eisen-Martin\, author of someone’s dead already (Bootstrap Press\, 2015) \nMay 4\, 2017: Tsering Wangmo Dhompa\, author of A Home in Tibet (Penguin\, 2014) and Eric Sneathen\, author of Snail Poems (Krupskaya\, 2016) \nMay 11\, 2017: Aisha Sasha John\, author of THOU (BookThug\, 2014) \nMay 18\, 2017: Rosa Alcalá\, author of Undocumentaries (Shearsman Books\, 2010) \nJune 1\, 2017: Lauren Levin\, author of The Braid (Krupskaya\, 2016) \nJune 8\, 2017: UCSC Creative Writing Program\, Undergraduate Student Reading
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-aisha-sasha-john-2/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Tsering Wangmo Dhompa & Eric Sneathen
DESCRIPTION:Poet Tsering Wangmo Dhompa’s parents fled Tibet in 1959. Raised by her mother in Tibetan communities in Dharamsala\, India\, and Kathmandu\, Nepal\, She is the author of the poetry chapbooks In Writing the Names (2000) and Recurring Gestures (2000). She has published the full-length collections Rules of the House (2002)\, In the Absent Everyday (2005)\, and My Rice tastes like the lake (2011)\, which was a finalist for the Northern California Independent Bookseller’s Book of the Year Award for 2012. Dhompa’s non-fiction book based on her life is called A Home in Tibet (Penguin India\, 2013). \nEric Sneathen\, author of Snail Poems (Krupskaya\, 2016) \nEric Sneathen is a poet who whose writing has been published by Mondo Bummer\, Elderly\, and Faggot Journal. He is the editor and organizer of Macaroni Necklace\, a Bay Area–based DIY literary journal and reading series. Snail Poems is his first book. \nThe UC Santa Cruz Creative Writing Program Presents\nThe Lives of Other Songs\nLiving Writers Series Spring 2017 \nThursdays / 5:20-6:50pm / Humanities Lecture Hall \nApril 13\, 2017: Tongo Eisen-Martin\, author of someone’s dead already (Bootstrap Press\, 2015) \nMay 4\, 2017: Tsering Wangmo Dhompa\, author of A Home in Tibet (Penguin\, 2014) and Eric Sneathen\, author of Snail Poems (Krupskaya\, 2016) \nMay 11\, 2017: Aisha Sasha John\, author of THOU (BookThug\, 2014) \nMay 18\, 2017: Rosa Alcalá\, author of Undocumentaries (Shearsman Books\, 2010) \nJune 1\, 2017: Lauren Levin\, author of The Braid (Krupskaya\, 2016) \nJune 8\, 2017: UCSC Creative Writing Program\, Undergraduate Student Reading
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-tsering-wangmo-dhompa-2/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Urayoán Noel
DESCRIPTION:Urayoán Noel is a self-described “stateless poet” whose critical and creative work foregrounds the messy condition of Puerto Rican belonging and non-belonging to the US nation-state. His poetic performances\, texts\, and “video poems” flagrantly comingle English with Spanish\, mixing learned literary allusions with found words generated from cell phones or political demonstrations.   Born and raised in San Juan\, Puerto Rico\, Noel lives in the Bronx and is an associate professor of English and Spanish at NYU. Noel is the author of Buzzing Hemisphere/Rumor Hemisférico (Arizona\, 2015)\, a Library Journal Top Fall Indie Poetry selection; Hi-Density Politics (BlazeVox\, 2010)\, a National Book Critics Circle Small Press Highlights selection; Kool Logic/La Lógica Kool (Bilingual Review\, 2005)\, an El Nuevo Día Book of the Year; and several books mostly in Spanish\, most recently the performance text EnUncIAdOr (Educación Emergente\, 2014). Other works include the DVD Kool Logic Sessions (Bilingual Review\, 2005)\, a collaboration with composer Monxo López; the artist’s book/performance/website The Edgemere Letters (2011)\, a collaboration with artist Martha Clippinger; and the critical study In Visible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam (Iowa\, 2014)\, winner of the LASA Latina/o Studies Book Award and recipient of an honorable mention in the MLA Prize in Latina/o and Chicana/o Literary and Cultural Studies. A contributing editor of NACLA Report on the Americas and Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora\, Noel has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation\, the Howard Foundation\, the Bronx Council on the Arts\, and CantoMundo\, and is currently completing a bilingual edition of the poems of Pablo de Rokha. \n  \nLiving Writers Series Winter 2017  \nImprovi/N\ations: Riff\, Inquiry\, and Protest  \nImprovi/N\ations: Riff\, Inquiry\, and Protest will feature writers and artists who work and play across various disciplines and modes: poetry\, prose\, visual\, sound\, performance\, art\, and theory to address questions of race\, gender\, sexuality\, and other identities. This series will explore the intersections of self-and-nationhood as fracture\, memory and possibility via individual\, collective and internal forms. \nHumanities Lecture Hall\, 206 \nThursdays\, 5:20-6:50 PM \nAll Readings are Free and Open to the Public \nJanuary 26: Wayne Koestenbaum\, Distinguished Professor of English\, Comparative Literature\, and French\, CUNY Graduate Center \nFebruary 2: Conner Bassett\, Matthew Gervase\, Kendall Grady\, Courtney Kersten\, Jared Harvey\, Jose Antonio Villarán\, Kirstin Wagner\, PhD Candidates\, Creative/Critical Concentration\, Literature\, UC Santa Cruz \nFebruary 16: Laura Mullen\, McElveen Professor of English\, Lousiana State University \nFebruary 23: Micah Perks\, Professor of Creative Writing and Literature\, UC Santa Cruz \nMarch 9: Urayoán Noel\, Associate Professor of English and Spanish\, New York University \nMarch 16: UCSC Creative Writing Program\, Undergraduate Student Reading LWS_Winter17_Proof2-2 \nCo-sponsored by The Humanities Division\, Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Endowment\, The Literature Department and Creative Writing Program\, Chicano Latino Research Center\, Literary Cultures/Sawyer Seminar\, Latin American and Latino Studies\, and The Bay Tree Book Store
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-urayoan-noel-2/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Micah Perks
DESCRIPTION:Micah Perks grew up in a log cabin in the Adirondack wilderness. She is the author of two novels\, What Becomes Us and We Are Gathered Here\, a memoir\, Pagan Time\, and a long personal essay\, Alone In The Woods: Cheryl Strayed\, My Daughter and Me. Her short stories and essays have won five Pushcart Prize nominations and appeared in Epoch\, Zyzzyva\, Tin House\, The Toast\, OZY and The Rumpus\, amongst many journals and anthologies. Excerpts of What Becomes Us won National Endowment for the Arts grant and The New Guard Machigonne 2014 Fiction Prize. She received her BA and MFA from Cornell University and now lives with her family in Santa Cruz where she co-directs the creative writing program at UCSC. More details and work at micahperks.com. \n  \nLiving Writers Series Winter 2017  \nImprovi/N\ations: Riff\, Inquiry\, and Protest  \nImprovi/N\ations: Riff\, Inquiry\, and Protest will feature writers and artists who work and play across various disciplines and modes: poetry\, prose\, visual\, sound\, performance\, art\, and theory to address questions of race\, gender\, sexuality\, and other identities. This series will explore the intersections of self-and-nationhood as fracture\, memory and possibility via individual\, collective and internal forms. \nHumanities Lecture Hall\, 206 \nThursdays\, 5:20-6:50 PM \nAll Readings are Free and Open to the Public \nJanuary 26: Wayne Koestenbaum\, Distinguished Professor of English\, Comparative Literature\, and French\, CUNY Graduate Center \nFebruary 2: Conner Bassett\, Matthew Gervase\, Kendall Grady\, Courtney Kersten\, Jared Harvey\, Jose Antonio Villarán\, Kirstin Wagner\, PhD Candidates\, Creative/Critical Concentration\, Literature\, UC Santa Cruz \nFebruary 16: Laura Mullen\, McElveen Professor of English\, Lousiana State University \nFebruary 23: Micah Perks\, Professor of Creative Writing and Literature\, UC Santa Cruz \nMarch 9: Urayoán Noel\, Associate Professor of English and Spanish\, New York University \nMarch 16: UCSC Creative Writing Program\, Undergraduate Student Reading \nCo-sponsored by The Humanities Division\, Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Endowment\, The Literature Department and Creative Writing Program\, Chicano Latino Research Center\, Literary Cultures/Sawyer Seminar\, Latin American and Latino Studies\, and The Bay Tree Book Store
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-micah-perks-2/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: Laura Mullen
DESCRIPTION:Laura Mullen is the author of eight books: Complicated Grief\, Enduring Freedom: A Little Book of Mechanical Brides\, The Surface\, After I Was Dead\, Subject\, Dark Archive\, The Tales of Horror\, and Murmur. Recognitions for her poetry include Ironwood’s Stanford Prize\, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Rona Jaffe Award. She has had several MacDowell Fellowships and has been a frequent visitor to the Summer Writing Program at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa. Her work is included in American Hybrid and Postmodern American Poetry (Norton) as well as other anthologies; recent poems have appeared in The Nation and Poetry. An essay on using Gertrude Stein in the creative writing classroom is included in the forthcoming anthology Approaches to Teaching Stein. Her collaboration with the composer Nathan Davis\, “Ask\,” will be performed at Princeton in 2017. She is the McElveen Professor in English at Louisiana State University. \n  \nLiving Writers Series Winter 2017  \nImprovi/N\ations: Riff\, Inquiry\, and Protest  \nImprovi/N\ations: Riff\, Inquiry\, and Protest will feature writers and artists who work and play across various disciplines and modes: poetry\, prose\, visual\, sound\, performance\, art\, and theory to address questions of race\, gender\, sexuality\, and other identities. This series will explore the intersections of self-and-nationhood as fracture\, memory and possibility via individual\, collective and internal forms. \nHumanities Lecture Hall\, 206 \nThursdays\, 5:20-6:50 PM \nAll Readings are Free and Open to the Public \nJanuary 26: Wayne Koestenbaum\, Distinguished Professor of English\, Comparative Literature\, and French\, CUNY Graduate Center \nFebruary 2: Conner Bassett\, Matthew Gervase\, Kendall Grady\, Courtney Kersten\, Jared Harvey\, Jose Antonio Villarán\, Kirstin Wagner\, PhD Candidates\, Creative/Critical Concentration\, Literature\, UC Santa Cruz \nFebruary 16: Laura Mullen\, McElveen Professor of English\, Lousiana State University \nFebruary 23: Micah Perks\, Professor of Creative Writing and Literature\, UC Santa Cruz \nMarch 9: Urayoán Noel\, Associate Professor of English and Spanish\, New York University \nMarch 16: UCSC Creative Writing Program\, Undergraduate Student Reading \nCo-sponsored by The Humanities Division\, Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Endowment\, The Literature Department and Creative Writing Program\, Chicano Latino Research Center\, Literary Cultures/Sawyer Seminar\, Latin American and Latino Studies\, and The Bay Tree Book Store
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-laura-mullen-2/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170202T172000
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SUMMARY:Living Writers: PhD Candidates\, Creative/Critical Concentration
DESCRIPTION:C Dylan Bassett’s books are The Invention of Monsters / Plays for the Theater (2015) and A Failed Performance: The Collected Short Plays of Daniil Kharms (forthcoming 2018). His recent work appears in The American Reader\, Black Warrior Review\, Ninth Letter\, and Washington Square. He lives in Santa Cruz. \nMatthew Gervase is a Ph.D. candidate in Literature at UCSC\, where he teaches creative writing and French courses. His published work has appeared in The French Translator’s Quarter. As a writer he has certain formalist tendencies\, one of which is to occasionally exist in the third person. He attempts to balance this out through his research on fascism\, orality\, and life in France’s Third Republic. \nKendall Grady is a poet!scholar working the couplet as microsystem– contact zone– associative monad– elective affinity– allocentrism– affective capillary– baroque structure of intimacy. Selected poems livewith Jupiter 88\, Dusie\, and The Atlas Review. \nCourtney Kersten’s essays can be seen or are forthcoming from River Teeth\, Hotel Amerika\, Hayden’s Ferry Review\, DIAGRAM\, The Sonora Review\, Black Warrior Review\, The Master’s Review and elsewhere. She was the 2016 writer-in-residence at the Great Basin Writer’s Residency and was a Fulbright Fellow in Riga\, Latvia where she researched nonfictional theater and literature. She is currently a PhD student in Literature\, Creative Writing\, and Feminist Studies at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. \nJared Joseph is a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, and is currently pursuing his PhD in Literature at the University of California – Santa Cruz. Recent poems have been published in Fence\, Noo Journal\, and Company. Jared Joseph and Sara Peck’s collaborative book here you are is available from Horse Less Press\, while Drowsy. Drowsy Baby is forthcoming from Entropy Press in 2017 \nJose Antonio akterial\, 2012). In 2008 he created the AMLT project (www.amltproject.com)\, which seeks to explore hypertext literature and alternative media forwriting through collective authorship. The project was sponsored by Puma from 2011-2014. His third book\, titled “open pit”\, is forthcoming from AUB in 2016. He holds an MFA in Writing from the University of California in San Diego. \nKirstin Wagner is a writer and teacher living in Santa Cruz\, CA. Her creative work is published/forthcoming in Bombay Gin Literary Journal\, Gesture Literary Journal\, and Something on Paper. She has taught creativewriting at Naropa University\, Indiana University\, U.C. Santa Cruz\, and in the Boulder public school system.  She is currently a PhD student in the Literature Department at UC-Santa Cruz. \n  \nLiving Writers Series Winter 2017\n \nImprovi/N\ations: Riff\, Inquiry\, and Protest \nImprovi/N\ations: Riff\, Inquiry\, and Protest will feature writers and artists who work and play across various disciplines and modes: poetry\, prose\, visual\, sound\, performance\, art\, and theory to address questions of race\, gender\, sexuality\, and other identities. This series will explore the intersections of self-and-nationhood as fracture\, memory and possibility via individual\, collective and internal forms. \n  \nHumanities Lecture Hall\, 206 \nThursdays\, 5:20-6:50 PM \nAll Readings are Free and Open to the Public \n  \nJanuary 26: Wayne Koestenbaum\, Distinguished Professor of English\, Comparative Literature\, and French\, CUNY Graduate Center \nFebruary 2: Conner Bassett\, Matthew Gervase\, Kendall Grady\, Courtney Kersten\, Jared Harvey\, Jose Antonio Villarán\, Kirstin Wagner\, PhD Candidates\, Creative/Critical Concentration\, Literature\, UC Santa Cruz \nFebruary 16: Laura Mullen\, McElveen Professor of English\, Lousiana State University \nFebruary 23: Micah Perks\, Professor of Creative Writing and Literature\, UC Santa Cruz \nMarch 9: Urayoán Noel\, Associate Professor of English and Spanish\, New York University \nMarch 16: UCSC Creative Writing Program\, Undergraduate Student Reading \nCo-sponsored by The Humanities Division\, Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Endowment\, The Literature Department and Creative Writing Program\, Chicano Latino Research Center\, Literary Cultures/Sawyer Seminar\, Latin American and Latino Studies\, and The Bay Tree Book Store
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-phd-candidates-creativecritical-concentration-2/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Senior Projects Reading
DESCRIPTION:The Spring 2015 Living Writers Series is focused on flexible forms and mixed media. You can expect writers and artists working in and across a number of forms\, and through a variety of media to include poetry\, fiction\, film\, graphic art\, dance\, and music. Each of the writers and artists featured in this series combines multiple genres and materials\, whether textual\, sonic\, visual\, and/or embodied to explore intersections of race\, sexuality\, gender\, and class in their written\, screened\, and staged performances. \nThe Living Writers Series is a free and public event held Thursdays\, 6:00-7:45 pm in Humanities Lecture Hall 206. For more information\, please email rvwilson@ucsc.edu \n\n  \nSpring 2015 Living Writer Series:\nApril 16: Janice Lee\nApril 23: Terri Witek\, Jai Arun Ravine\nApril 30: Marilyn Chin\nMay 7: Jared Harvey\, Gabriela Ramirez-Chavez\, Whitney De Vos\, Nicholas James Whittington\, Eric Sneathen\nMay 14: Dawn Lundy Martin\nMay 21: Eleni Sikelianos\, Josef Sikelianos\nMay 28: Sarah Manguso\, Maggie Nelson\nJune 4: Student Reading\nJune 11: Senior Projects Reading
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-senior-projects-reading-2/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Sarah Manguso\, Maggie Nelson
DESCRIPTION:The Spring 2015 Living Writers Series is focused on flexible forms and mixed media. You can expect writers and artists working in and across a number of forms\, and through a variety of media to include poetry\, fiction\, film\, graphic art\, dance\, and music. Each of the writers and artists featured in this series combines multiple genres and materials\, whether textual\, sonic\, visual\, and/or embodied to explore intersections of race\, sexuality\, gender\, and class in their written\, screened\, and staged performances. \nThe Living Writers Series is a free and public event held Thursdays\, 6:00-7:45 pm in Humanities Lecture Hall 206. For more information\, please email rvwilson@ucsc.edu \nSarah Manguso \nis an essayist and poet. Her new book\, Ongoingness: The End of a Diary\, is out now. Her five other books include The Guardians: An Elegy for a Friend\, named one of the top ten books of 2012 by Salon\, and The Two Kinds of Decay: A Memoir\, named an Editors’ Choice by the New York Times Book Review and a Best Book of the Year by the Independent\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, the Telegraph\, and Time Out Chicago. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Rome Prize\, and her books have been translated into Chinese\, German\, Italian\, and Spanish. Her essays have appeared in Harper’s\, the New York Review of Books\, and the New York Times Magazine\, and her poems have won a Pushcart Prize and appeared in four editions of the Best American Poetry series. She grew up near Boston and now lives in Los Angeles and teaches at the Otis College of Art and Design. She can be found online at: http://www.sarahmanguso.com/ \nMaggie Nelson \nis a nonfiction writer\, critic\, scholar\, and poet. Her works of nonfiction include The Argonauts\, a work of “autotheory” about gender\, sexuality\, (queer) family\, and the limitations and possibilities of language; The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning (2011)\, which was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and Editors’ Choice; the cult hit Bluets (2009); a critical study of poetry and painting titled Women\, the New York School\, and Other True Abstractions (2007); and a memoir about sexual violence and media spectacle titled The Red Parts (2007)\, which will be reissued by Graywolf in Spring 2016. Her books of poetry include Something Bright\, Then Holes (2007); Jane: A Murder (2005; finalist\, the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of Memoir)\, The Latest Winter (2003)\, and Shiner (2001). Her awards include a 2007 Arts Writers Grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation\, a 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship\, a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship\, and a 2013 Literature grant from Creative Capital. Since 2005 she has taught on the faculty of the School of Critical Studies at CalArts. She currently lives in Los Angeles. She can be found online at: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/maggie-nelson \n  \n\nSpring 2015 Living Writer Series:\nApril 16: Janice Lee\nApril 23: Terri Witek\, Jai Arun Ravine\nApril 30: Marilyn Chin\nMay 7: Jared Harvey\, Gabriela Ramirez-Chavez\, Whitney De Vos\, Nicholas James Whittington\, Eric Sneathen\nMay 14: Dawn Lundy Martin\nMay 21: Eleni Sikelianos\, Josef Sikelianos\nMay 28: Sarah Manguso\, Maggie Nelson\nJune 4: Student Reading\nJune 11: Senior Projects Reading \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-sarah-manguso-maggie-nelson-2/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Eleni Sikelianos\, Josef Sikelianos
DESCRIPTION:The Spring 2015 Living Writers Series is focused on flexible forms and mixed media. You can expect writers and artists working in and across a number of forms\, and through a variety of media to include poetry\, fiction\, film\, graphic art\, dance\, and music. Each of the writers and artists featured in this series combines multiple genres and materials\, whether textual\, sonic\, visual\, and/or embodied to explore intersections of race\, sexuality\, gender\, and class in their written\, screened\, and staged performances. \nThe Living Writers Series is a free and public event held Thursdays\, 6:00-7:45 pm in Humanities Lecture Hall 206. For more information\, please email rvwilson@ucsc.edu \nEleni Sikelianos \nbelieves in redistributing wealth (top to bottom) and in the overturning of Citizens United. She is the author of seven books of poetry\, most recently The Loving Detail of the Living & the Dead (Coffee House\, 2013)\, and two hybrid memoirs (The Book of Jon\, City Lights\, and You Animal Machine\, Coffee House). Sikelianos has been the happy recipient of various awards for her poetry\, nonfiction\, and translations\, including two National Endowment for the Arts Awards\, a NYFA\, NYSCA\, and the National Poetry Series. Her work has been translated into over a dozen languages\, and is widely anthologized. She has taught poetry in public schools\, homeless shelters\, and prisons\, and collaborated with musicians\, filmmakers\, and visual artists. She is on guest faculty for the Naropa Summer Writing Program\, and for L’Ecole de Littérature in France and Morocco; she teaches at the University of Denver\, where she runs the Writers in the Schools program. She can be found online at: http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/eleni-sik%C3%A9lian%C3%B2s \nJosef Sikelianos \nis a songwriter and musician living in Berkeley CA. He heads the indie folk band Baby Teeth\, who are releasing their first full length album this spring. After exploring many disciplines with some thoroughness\, Sikelianos graduated cum laude from San Francisco State University with a degree in fine art. Sikelianos put himself through school doing tree work and is now also the owner of a professional tree service company\, The Urban Arborist\, working in the San Francisco Bay area. Sikelianos notes that “the greatest luxury is the exploration of aesthetics without premeditation or agenda\, and the appreciation of beauty is in every endeavor I undertake.” In his spare time Sikelianos reads his sister’s books. He can be found online at: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/josef-sikelianos/2b/427/545 \n\n  \nSpring 2015 Living Writer Series:\nApril 16: Janice Lee\nApril 23: Terri Witek\, Jai Arun Ravine\nApril 30: Marilyn Chin\nMay 7: Jared Harvey\, Gabriela Ramirez-Chavez\, Whitney De Vos\, Nicholas James Whittington\, Eric Sneathen\nMay 14: Dawn Lundy Martin\nMay 21: Eleni Sikelianos\, Josef Sikelianos\nMay 28: Sarah Manguso\, Maggie Nelson\nJune 4: Student Reading\nJune 11: Senior Projects Reading
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-eleni-sikelianos-josef-sikelianos-2/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Dawn Lundy Martin
DESCRIPTION:The Spring 2015 Living Writers Series is focused on flexible forms and mixed media. You can expect writers and artists working in and across a number of forms\, and through a variety of media to include poetry\, fiction\, film\, graphic art\, dance\, and music. Each of the writers and artists featured in this series combines multiple genres and materials\, whether textual\, sonic\, visual\, and/or embodied to explore intersections of race\, sexuality\, gender\, and class in their written\, screened\, and staged performances. \nThe Living Writers Series is a free and public event held Thursdays\, 6:00-7:45 pm in Humanities Lecture Hall 206. For more information\, please email rvwilson@ucsc.edu \nDawn Lundy Martin \nis co-founder of the Third Wave Foundation in New York\, a national grant making organization led by young women and transgender youth\, which focuses on social justice activism. She is also a member of the Black Took Collective\, a group of experimental black poets embracing critical theory about gender\, race\, and sexuality. She has been the recipient of two poetry grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and was awarded the 2008 Academy of American Arts and Sciences May Sarton Prize for Poetry. She has taught at Montclair State University\, The New School\, and the Institute for Writing and Thinking at Bard College. She is currently an assistant professor in the Writing Program at the University of Pittsburgh. She can be found online at: http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/dawn-lundy-martin \n\n  \nSpring 2015 Living Writer Series:\nApril 16: Janice Lee\nApril 23: Terri Witek\, Jai Arun Ravine\nApril 30: Marilyn Chin\nMay 7: Jared Harvey\, Gabriela Ramirez-Chavez\, Whitney De Vos\, Nicholas James Whittington\, Eric Sneathen\nMay 14: Dawn Lundy Martin\nMay 21: Eleni Sikelianos\, Josef Sikelianos\nMay 28: Sarah Manguso\, Maggie Nelson\nJune 4: Student Reading\nJune 11: Senior Projects Reading \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-dawn-lundy-martin-2/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150507T180000
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SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Jared Harvey\, Gabriela Ramirez-Chavez\, Whitney De Vos\, Nicholas James Whittington\, Eric Sneathen
DESCRIPTION:The Spring 2015 Living Writers Series is focused on flexible forms and mixed media. You can expect writers and artists working in and across a number of forms\, and through a variety of media to include poetry\, fiction\, film\, graphic art\, dance\, and music. Each of the writers and artists featured in this series combines multiple genres and materials\, whether textual\, sonic\, visual\, and/or embodied to explore intersections of race\, sexuality\, gender\, and class in their written\, screened\, and staged performances. \nThe Living Writers Series is a free and public event held Thursdays\, 6:00-7:45 pm in Humanities Lecture Hall 206. For more information\, please email rvwilson@ucsc.edu \nJared Harvey \nis a an author of several chapbooks\, including Commuting: Have Gone to Ithaca. – Frank Quitely\, Hosni Mubarak\, Mammal\, and his most recent chapbook Here You Are (co-authored with Sara Peck. His poetry has been featured at Ohio Edit and Spork Press. He is currently a Graduate Student and Creative Writing Instructor at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. He can be found online at his tumblr page: http://jaredjosephharvey.tumblr.com/ \nGabriela Ramirez-Chavez \nis a Guatemalan-American poet originally from Los Angeles\, California. Gaby’s work has appeared in Plath Profiles\, Kweli\, and The Acentos Review. She received her BA in English Literature and Creative Writing from California State University\, Long Beach\, where she pursued her research on the poetry of Sylvia Plath and S.T. Coleridge. Her graduate research at UCSC is focused on literature by Central Americans and US Central Americans about the state violence and forced disappearances in the isthmus in the 1970s and 1980s\, and the ongoing struggle for justice. She can be found online at: https://gabrielaramirez.wordpress.com/ \nWhitney De Vos \nhas been recognized for her poetry with numerous honors\, and is a PhD student at UC Santa Cruz concentrating on 20th and 21st century American poetry\, poetics\, and politics. As part of an innovative alt-ac pilot program in collaboration with UCSC’s Graduate Division Dean\, Whitney interned at UCHRI during August and September 2014\, working on program development\, research activities\, and scholarly communications for the institute. She can be found online at: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/whitney-devos/69/566/635 \nNicholas James Whittington \nwas born and raised in the City of San Francisco. His poems have appeared in Ambush Review\, Beatitude\, Beloit Poetry Journal\, Big Bell\, Dusie\, Felucca\, Flying Fish\, Greetings\, HamsterRad\, Illuminations\, Marginalia\, Oxalis\, Ping Pong\, Poems by Sunday\, and Polis: Este Jardin\, as well as in the chapbooks SLOUGH and SCORIA. He is currently a PhD student at UCSC and the editor at AMERARCANA: The Bird & Beckett Review\, a serial publication of poetry\, creative & critical prose\, other words & works of art. He can be found online at: https://amerarcana.wordpress.com/ \nEric Sneathen \nlives in Santa Cruz\, California\, where he is studying for his PhD in Literature. His reviews have been published by Small Press Distribution and Tripwire\, and his poetry has been published by Mondo Bummer\, The Equalizer\, and Faggot Journal. He can be found online at: http://literature.ucsc.edu/faculty/singleton.php?inc_graduate=true&inc_faculty=true&singleton=true&cruz_id=esneathe \n\n  \nSpring 2015 Living Writer Series:\nApril 16: Janice Lee\nApril 23: Terri Witek\, Jai Arun Ravine\nApril 30: Marilyn Chin\nMay 7: Jared Harvey\, Gabriela Ramirez-Chavez\, Whitney De Vos\, Nicholas James Whittington\, Eric Sneathen\nMay 14: Dawn Lundy Martin\nMay 21: Eleni Sikelianos\, Josef Sikelianos\nMay 28: Sarah Manguso\, Maggie Nelson\nJune 4: Student Reading\nJune 11: Senior Projects Reading
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-jared-harvey-gabriela-ramirez-chavez-whitney-de-vos-nicholas-james-whittington-eric-sneathen-2/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Marilyn Chin
DESCRIPTION:The Spring 2015 Living Writers Series is focused on flexible forms and mixed media. You can expect writers and artists working in and across a number of forms\, and through a variety of media to include poetry\, fiction\, film\, graphic art\, dance\, and music. Each of the writers and artists featured in this series combines multiple genres and materials\, whether textual\, sonic\, visual\, and/or embodied to explore intersections of race\, sexuality\, gender\, and class in their written\, screened\, and staged performances. \nThe Living Writers Series is a free and public event held Thursdays\, 6:00-7:45 pm in Humanities Lecture Hall 206. For more information\, please email rvwilson@ucsc.edu \nMarilyn Chin \nis an award-winning poet and the author of Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen\, Rhapsody in Plain Yellow\, The Phoenix Gone\, the Terrace Empty and Dwarf Bamboo. Her writing has appeared in The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry. \nShe was born in Hong Kong and raised in Portland\, Oregon. Her books have become Asian American classics and are taught in classrooms internationally. Marilyn Chin has read her poetry at the Library of Congress. She was interviewed by Bill Moyers’ and featured in his PBS series The Language of Lifeand in PBS Poetry Everywhere. She can be found online at: http://www.marilynchin.org/ \n\n  \nSpring 2015 Living Writer Series:\nApril 16: Janice Lee\nApril 23: Terri Witek\, Jai Arun Ravine\nApril 30: Marilyn Chin\nMay 7: Jared Harvey\, Gabriela Ramirez-Chavez\, Whitney De Vos\, Nicholas James Whittington\, Eric Sneathen\nMay 14: Dawn Lundy Martin\nMay 21: Eleni Sikelianos\, Josef Sikelianos\nMay 28: Sarah Manguso\, Maggie Nelson\nJune 4: Student Reading\nJune 11: Senior Projects Reading
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-marilyn-chin-2/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150423T180000
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SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Terri Witek\, Jai Arun Ravine
DESCRIPTION:The Spring 2015 Living Writers Series is focused on flexible forms and mixed media. You can expect writers and artists working in and across a number of forms\, and through a variety of media to include poetry\, fiction\, film\, graphic art\, dance\, and music. Each of the writers and artists featured in this series combines multiple genres and materials\, whether textual\, sonic\, visual\, and/or embodied to explore intersections of race\, sexuality\, gender\, and class in their written\, screened\, and staged performances. \nThe Living Writers Series is a free and public event held Thursdays\, 6:00-7:45 pm in Humanities Lecture Hall 206. For more information\, please email rvwilson@ucsc.edu \nTerri Witek \nis the author of Exit Island\, The Shipwreck Dress (both Florida Book Award medalists) \, Carnal World \, Fools and Crows\, Courting Couples(Winner of the 2000 Center for Book Arts Contest)\, First Shot at Fort Sumter/ Possum (a poetry/comics chapzine) and Robert Lowell and LIFE STUDIES:Revising the Self . A new chapbook\, On Gavdos Ferry\, and a new book of poems\, Body Swap are forthcoming. \nHer poems have appeared in American Poetry Review\, Slate\, Poetry\, Threepenny Review\, Hudson Review\, and many other journals and anthologies\, including Best of Poetry Daily 2007 and Old Flames–10 years of 32 Poems (2013). She has been awarded fellowships from MacDowell\, The Hawthornden International Retreat for Writers\, The Blue Flower Arts/ Atlantic Center for the Arts\, Sewanee\, and the state of Florida. A professor of English at Stetson University\, where she directs the creative writing program\, her summer faculty positions have included the Prague Summer Literary Program\, the West Chester Poetry Conference\, Poetry by the Sea\, and the DisQuiet International program in Lisbon\, where she and Cyriaco Lopes run “The Fernando Pessoa Game.” They will be core faculty in Poetry in an Expanded Field in Stetson University’s new low-residency MFA program. She can be found online at: http://terriwitek.com \nJai Arun Ravine \nThey are a writer\, dancer and graphic designer. They are the author of แล้ว AND THEN ENTWINE: LESSON PLANS\, POEMS\, KNOTS; IS THIS JANUARY; THE SPIDERBOI FILES; and the director of the short film TOM/TRANS/THAI\, which has screened in Bangkok\, Berlin\, Los Angeles and San Francisco\, among others. They hold an MFA in Writing & Poetics from Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School. Creative and critical writing appears most recently in Transgender Studies Quarterly\, Tarpaulin Sky Literary Journal\, Eleven Eleven\, EOAGH and TENDE RLOIN. A recipient of fellowships from ComPeung\, Djerassi and Kundiman\, they are a former Staff Writer for Lantern Review. They can be found online at: http://jaiarunravine.com/ \n\n  \nSpring 2015 Living Writer Series:\nApril 16: Janice Lee\nApril 23: Terri Witek\, Jai Arun Ravine\nApril 30: Marilyn Chin\nMay 7: Jared Harvey\, Gabriela Ramirez-Chavez\, Whitney De Vos\, Nicholas James Whittington\, Eric Sneathen\nMay 14: Dawn Lundy Martin\nMay 21: Eleni Sikelianos\, Josef Sikelianos\nMay 28: Sarah Manguso\, Maggie Nelson\nJune 4: Student Reading\nJune 11: Senior Projects Reading
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-terri-witek-jai-arun-ravine-2/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Living Writer Series: Janice Lee
DESCRIPTION:The Spring 2015 Living Writers Series is focused on flexible forms and mixed media. You can expect writers and artists working in and across a number of forms\, and through a variety of media to include poetry\, fiction\, film\, graphic art\, dance\, and music. Each of the writers and artists featured in this series combines multiple genres and materials\, whether textual\, sonic\, visual\, and/or embodied to explore intersections of race\, sexuality\, gender\, and class in their written\, screened\, and staged performances. \nThe Living Writers Series is a free and public event held Thursdays\, 6:00-7:45 pm in Humanities Lecture Hall 206. For more information\, please email rvwilson@ucsc.edu \nJanice Lee \nis a writer\, artist\, editor\, designer\, curator\, instructor\, and scholar. She is the author of KEROTAKIS (Dog Horn Press\, 2010)\, Daughter (Jaded Ibis\, 2011)\, and Damnation (Penny-Ante Editions\, 2013). She also has several chapbooks\, most recently a poetic collaboration with Will Alexander\, The Transparent As Witness (Solar Luxuriance\, 2013). She is currently working on several collaborations: a critical book on Bela Tarr’s Satantango with Jared Woodland and an ekphrastic project about decapitations in films with Michael du Plessis. The Sky Isn’t Blue: The Poetics of Spaces\, a book of essays\, is forthcoming from Civil Coping Mechanisms in 2016. She is Co-Editor of [out of nothing]\, Editor of the new #RECURRENT Novel Series for Jaded Ibis Press\, Assistant Editor at Fanzine\, Executive Editor at Entropy\, and Founder/CEO of POTG Design. She currently lives in Los Angeles where she is a Co-Founder of Code Talk\, a new initiative to teach web development to low-income women\, and where she teaches Graphic Texts & Interface Culture at CalArts. She can be found online at http://janicel.com \n\n  \nSpring 2015 Living Writer Series:\nApril 16: Janice Lee\nApril 23: Terri Witek\, Jai Arun Ravine\nApril 30: Marilyn Chin\nMay 7: Jared Harvey\, Gabriela Ramirez-Chavez\, Whitney De Vos\, Nicholas James Whittington\, Eric Sneathen\nMay 14: Dawn Lundy Martin\nMay 21: Eleni Sikelianos\, Josef Sikelianos\nMay 28: Sarah Manguso\, Maggie Nelson\nJune 4: Student Reading\nJune 11: Senior Projects Reading
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writer-series-janice-lee-2/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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