BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Humanities Institute - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The Humanities Institute REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20120311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20121104T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20130310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20131103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20140309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20141102T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20150308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20151101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20160313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20161106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20170312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20171105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20180311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20181104T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20190310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20191103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20200308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20201101T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190221T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190221T190000 DTSTAMP:20260428T050249 CREATED:20190111T195252Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190213T191545Z UID:10006693-1550769600-1550775600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Alex Marzano Lesnevich DESCRIPTION:UCSC Living Writers\, THI and the Hichcock Poetry Fund presents a reading of author Alex Marzano-Lesnevich’s book\, “The Fact of a Body murder and a memoir and Kirstin Wagner. \nAlexandria Marzano-Lesnevich is the author of THE FACT OF A BODY: A Murder and a Memoir\, recipient of the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir and the 2018 Chautauqua Prize. Named one of the best books of the year by Entertainment Weekly\, Audible.com\, Bustle\, Book Riot\, The Times of London\, and The Guardian\, it was an Indie Next Pick and a Junior Library Guild selection\, long-listed for the Gordon Burn Prize\, short-listed for the CWA Gold Dagger\, and a finalist for a New England Book Award and a Goodreads Choice Award. It has been published in the US\, the UK\, and the Netherlands; translations are forthcoming in Turkey\, Korea\, Taiwan\, Spain\, Greece\, Brazil\, and France. The recipient of fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts\, MacDowell\, and Yaddo\, as well as a Rona Jaffe Award\, Marzano-Lesnevich lives in Portland\, Maine and is an Assistant Professor of English at Bowdoin College. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-alex-marzano-lesnevich-2/ LOCATION:Peace United Church\, 900 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/living-writers-banner2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180524T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180524T185000 DTSTAMP:20260428T050249 CREATED:20180410T234117Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180410T234117Z UID:10005484-1527182400-1527187800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Sawako Nakayasu DESCRIPTION:Sawako Nakayasu is a transnational poet\, translator\, and occasional performance artist who has lived in Japan\, France\, China\, and the US. Her books include The Ants and Texture Notes\, and recent translations include The Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa\, and Costume en Face – a handwritten notebook of Tatsumi Hijikata’s dance notations. She is co-editor\, with Lisa Samuels\, of A Transpacific Poetics\, a gathering of poetry and poetics engaging transpacific imaginaries. She teaches at Brown University. \nSpring 2018 Living Writers:\n A Knotted Atlas: Writers on Entanglement \nThis spring quarter will feature eight contemporary writers who explore the knotted spaces and generative possibilities of entangled lives. Their works illuminate the historical enmeshment of cruel futures and hidden histories\, persons and things\, race and freedom\, kinship and loss\, and the human and non-human natural world. \nApril 12: Sherwin Bitsui \nApril 26: Leif Haven\, Jared Harvey \nMay 3: Courtney Kersten \nMay 17: Carmen Gimenez Smith and giovanni singleton \nMay 24: Sawako Nakayasu \nMay 31: Robin Coste Lewis \nJune 7: UCSC Creative Writing Program\, Undergraduate Student Reading \nHumanities Lecture Hall\, 206 \nThursdays\, 5:20-6:50 PM \nAll Readings are Free and Open to the Public \nContact: Chris Chen (cche75@ucsc.edu) \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Endowment\, American Indian Resource Center\, El Centro\, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\, Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment\, the Chicano Latino Research Center\, Cowell College\, Bay Tree Bookstore\, the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth M. Puknat Literary Series Endowment\, the Literature Department\, and the Creative Writing Program. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-sawako-nakayasu/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/0001-13.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180517T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180517T185000 DTSTAMP:20260428T050249 CREATED:20180507T172412Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180507T172600Z UID:10006633-1526577600-1526583000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Carmen Giménez-Smith & giovanni singleton DESCRIPTION:Born in New York\, poet Carmen Giménez Smith earned a BA in English from San Jose State University and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Iowa. She is the author of six collections of poetry\, including Cruel Futures (City Lights\, 2018); Milk and Filth (2013)\, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Goodbye\, Flicker (University of Massachusetts Press\, 2012)\, winner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry. She is the author of the memoir Bring Down the Little Birds: On Mothering\, Art\, Work\, and Everything Else (University of Arizona Press\, 2010)\, which received an American Book Award. She also coedited Angels of the Americlypse: New Latin@ Writing (Counterpath Press\, 2014). \ngiovanni singleton earned a BA from American University and an MFA from the New College of California. She is the author of the poetry collections AMERICAN LETTERS: works on paper (2017) and Ascension (2011)\, which won a California Book Award for Poetry. The book earned praise for its evocative use of white space\, silence\, and omissions. Poet Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon noted that singleton’s “poems are minimalist\, while engaging a concern for the historical\, the personal\, the spiritual\, as expanses… The buildup is slow\, and culminates as play\, in the clear space left as we literally watch an I disappear. Thereafter\, we find the blank page again. And time to make another poem.” \nSpring 2018 Living Writers:\nA Knotted Atlas: Writers on Entanglement \nThis spring quarter will feature eight contemporary writers who explore the knotted spaces and generative possibilities of entangled lives. Their works illuminate the historical enmeshment of cruel futures and hidden histories\, persons and things\, race and freedom\, kinship and loss\, and the human and non-human natural world. \nApril 12: Sherwin Bitsui \nApril 26: Leif Haven\, Jared Harvey \nMay 3: Courtney Kersten \nMay 17: Carmen Gimenez Smith and giovanni singleton \nMay 24: Sawako Nakayasu \nMay 31: Robin Coste Lewis \nJune 7: UCSC Creative Writing Program\, Undergraduate Student Reading \nHumanities Lecture Hall\, 206 \nThursdays\, 5:20-6:50 PM \nAll Readings are Free and Open to the Public \nContact: Chris Chen (cche75@ucsc.edu) \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Endowment\, American Indian Resource Center\, El Centro\, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\, Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment\, the Chicano Latino Research Center\, Cowell College\, Bay Tree Bookstore\, the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth M. Puknat Literary Series Endowment\, the Literature Department\, and the Creative Writing Program. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-carmen-gimenez-smith-giovanni-singleton-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/0001-13.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180503T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180503T185000 DTSTAMP:20260428T050249 CREATED:20180410T233634Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180410T233634Z UID:10005482-1525368000-1525373400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Courtney Kersten DESCRIPTION:Courtney Kersten is the author of Daughter in Retrograde: A Memoir (University of Wisconsin Press 2018). Her essays can be seen or are forthcoming from Brevity\, The Normal School\, River Teeth\, Hotel Amerika\, DIAGRAM\, The Sonora Review\, Black Warrior Review\, The Master’s Review\, Brevity and elsewhere. She was a Fulbright Fellow to Riga\, Latvia\, and is currently a PhD student in Literature and CreativeWriting at the University of California at Santa Cruz. \nSpring 2018 Living Writers:\n A Knotted Atlas: Writers on Entanglement \nThis spring quarter will feature eight contemporary writers who explore the knotted spaces and generative possibilities of entangled lives. Their works illuminate the historical enmeshment of cruel futures and hidden histories\, persons and things\, race and freedom\, kinship and loss\, and the human and non-human natural world. \nApril 12: Sherwin Bitsui \nApril 26: Leif Haven\, Jared Harvey \nMay 3: Courtney Kersten \nMay 17: Carmen Gimenez Smith and giovanni singleton \nMay 24: Sawako Nakayasu \nMay 31: Robin Coste Lewis \nJune 7: UCSC Creative Writing Program\, Undergraduate Student Reading \nHumanities Lecture Hall\, 206 \nThursdays\, 5:20-6:50 PM \nAll Readings are Free and Open to the Public \nContact: Chris Chen (cche75@ucsc.edu) \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Endowment\, American Indian Resource Center\, El Centro\, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\, Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment\, the Chicano Latino Research Center\, Cowell College\, Bay Tree Bookstore\, the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth M. Puknat Literary Series Endowment\, the Literature Department\, and the Creative Writing Program. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-courtney-kersten/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/0001-13.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180426T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180426T185000 DTSTAMP:20260428T050249 CREATED:20180410T233401Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180410T233401Z UID:10005481-1524763200-1524768600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Leif Haven & Jared Harvey DESCRIPTION:Leif Haven Martinson is a writer\, poet\, and designer. His first book\, Arcane Rituals From The Future\, was selected by Claudia Rankine as the winner of the 1913 Book Prize and published by 1913 Press in 2016. He is currently the Lead Designer at Botanic Technologies\, where he helps develop chatbots\, voice assistants\, and avatars. Previously\, he developed user-centered web services for the City of Oakland and designed educational games and experiences about CRISPR\, neutrinos\, and gardening in space with Field Day Lab\, an education innovation lab at the University of Wisconsin. \nJared Harvey (Jared Joseph) is the author of Drowsy. Drowsy Baby from Civil Coping Mechanisms and\, alongside Sara Peck\, the co-author of here you are via Horse Less Press. Recent work has been published in Fence\, Yes\, and Prelude\, while maybe a million chapbooks float around. He lives in Santa Cruz. \nSpring 2018 Living Writers:\n A Knotted Atlas: Writers on Entanglement \nThis spring quarter will feature eight contemporary writers who explore the knotted spaces and generative possibilities of entangled lives. Their works illuminate the historical enmeshment of cruel futures and hidden histories\, persons and things\, race and freedom\, kinship and loss\, and the human and non-human natural world. \nApril 12: Sherwin Bitsui \nApril 26: Leif Haven\, Jared Harvey \nMay 3: Courtney Kersten \nMay 17: Carmen Gimenez Smith and giovanni singleton \nMay 24: Sawako Nakayasu \nMay 31: Robin Coste Lewis \nJune 7: UCSC Creative Writing Program\, Undergraduate Student Reading \nHumanities Lecture Hall\, 206 \nThursdays\, 5:20-6:50 PM \nAll Readings are Free and Open to the Public \nContact: Chris Chen (cche75@ucsc.edu) \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Endowment\, American Indian Resource Center\, El Centro\, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\, Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment\, the Chicano Latino Research Center\, Cowell College\, Bay Tree Bookstore\, the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth M. Puknat Literary Series Endowment\, the Literature Department\, and the Creative Writing Program. \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-leif-haven-jared-harvey/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/0001-13.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180412T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180412T185000 DTSTAMP:20260428T050249 CREATED:20180410T232832Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180410T232905Z UID:10006621-1523553600-1523559000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Sherwin Bitsui DESCRIPTION:Originally from White Cone\, Arizona\, on the Navajo Reservation\, Sherwin Bitsui is the author of two collections of poetry\, Flood Song (Copper Canyon) and Shapeshift (University of Arizona Press). He is Diné of the Todí­ch’ii’nii (Bitter Water Clan)\, born for the Tlizí­laaní­ (Many Goats Clan) and holds an AFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts Creative Writing Program and a BA from University of Arizona in Tucson. His recent honors include a 2011 Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship and a 2011 Native Arts & Culture Foundation Arts Fellowship. He is also the recipient of 2010 PEN Open Book Award\, an American Book Award\, and a Whiting Writers Award. Bitsui has published his poems in Narrative\, Black Renaissance Noir\, American Poet\, The Iowa Review\, LIT\, and elsewhere. \nSteeped in Native American culture\, mythology\, and history\, Bitsui’s poems reveal the tensions in the intersection of Native American and contemporary urban culture. As an ecopoet\, his poems are imagistic\, surreal\, and rich with details of the landscape of the Southwest. \nSpring 2018 Living Writers:\n A Knotted Atlas: Writers on Entanglement \nThis spring quarter will feature eight contemporary writers who explore the knotted spaces and generative possibilities of entangled lives. Their works illuminate the historical enmeshment of cruel futures and hidden histories\, persons and things\, race and freedom\, kinship and loss\, and the human and non-human natural world. \nApril 12: Sherwin Bitsui \nApril 26: Leif Haven\, Jared Harvey \nMay 3: Courtney Kersten \nMay 17: Carmen Gimenez Smith and giovanni singleton \nMay 24: Sawako Nakayasu \nMay 31: Robin Coste Lewis \nJune 7: UCSC Creative Writing Program\, Undergraduate Student Reading \nHumanities Lecture Hall\, 206 \nThursdays\, 5:20-6:50 PM \nAll Readings are Free and Open to the Public \nContact: Chris Chen (cche75@ucsc.edu) \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Endowment\, American Indian Resource Center\, El Centro\, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\, Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment\, the Chicano Latino Research Center\, Cowell College\, Bay Tree Bookstore\, the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth M. Puknat Literary Series Endowment\, the Literature Department\, and the Creative Writing Program. \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/41740/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/0001-13.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180315T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180315T185000 DTSTAMP:20260428T050249 CREATED:20180110T215326Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180110T215351Z UID:10006579-1521134400-1521139800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Undergraduate Student Reading DESCRIPTION:Living Writers Series Winter 2018: \nPerforming Women: Race\, Art\, and Space \nPerforming Women: Race\, Art and Space features four contemporary writers/artists whose writing and art moves between multiple modes: poetry\, prose\, visual and textile arts\, photography\, film\, dance\, and improvisation to address questions of gender\, sexuality\, and race.  This series will explore the intersections of literature\, writing and performance\, and the ways that themes of nation\, exile\, trauma\, and joy move through individual\, collective and individual artistic practices.\nThis series will also feature three “Live Models\,” in the form of master conversations/performances\, mainly for the Creative/Critical (and other) graduate students\, faculty\, and the larger Cowell College Community. \n  \nWinter 2018 Schedule:\nJanuary 25th: Jennifer Tamayo\nFebruary 1st: Karen Tei Yamashita\nFebruary 15th: Duriel E. Harris\nFebruary 22nd: Cecilia Vicuña\nMarch 15th: UCSC Creative Writing Program\, Undergraduate Student Reading \n  \nAll Living Writers readings are free and open to the public. Please contact Ronaldo Wilson at rvwilson@ucsc.edu with any questions or concerns. \n \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Endowment\, Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment\, the Chicano Latino Research Center\, Cowell College\, Bay Tree Bookstore\, the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth M. Puknat Literary Series Endowment\, and Literature Department and Creative Writing Program. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-undergraduate-student-reading/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/living-writers-w18.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180222T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180222T185000 DTSTAMP:20260428T050249 CREATED:20171227T184045Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180215T004937Z UID:10006572-1519320000-1519325400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Gabriella Ramirez-Chavez & José Villarán on the work of Cecilia Vicuña DESCRIPTION:ANNOUNCEMENT: Cecilia Vicuña will be unable to join us on February 22. However\, the event will be held as scheduled but in a different iteration.\n \nIn Lieu of Cecilia Vicuña’s absence\, Literature Creative-Critical PhD students\, Gabriella Ramirez-Chavez\, and José Antonio Villarán will curate some of Cecilia Vicuña’s work\, showing video/sound footage\, and providing comments\, revolving around their own engagements with her art and poetry. \n\n  \nCecilia Vicuña is a poet\, artist\, filmmaker and activist. Her work addresses pressing concerns of the modern world including ecological destruction\, human rights and cultural homogenization. Born and raised in Santiago de Chile\, she has been in exile since the early 1970s\, after the military coup against elected president Salvador Allende. Vicuña’s work began in the mid 60s in Chile\, as a way of “hearing an ancient silence waiting to be heard”;. Her art has been exhibited at The Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro\, Brazil; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Santiago; The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) London; The Whitechapel Art Gallery in London; The Berkeley Art Museum; The Whitney Museum of American Art; and MoMA\, The Museum of Modern Art in New York. It was included in Documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel\, Germany\, 2017. Her itinerant exhibition Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen\, opened at the Contemporary Arts Center of New Orleans in March 2017 and will travel to various museums in the U.S during 2018. Vicuña has published twenty-five art and poetry books\, including About to Happen\, 2017\, Read Thread\, The Story of the Red Thread\, 2017\, and Kuntur Ko\, 2015. \n  \nLiving Writers Series Winter 2018: \nPerforming Women: Race\, Art\, and Space \nPerforming Women: Race\, Art and Space features four contemporary writers/artists whose writing and art moves between multiple modes: poetry\, prose\, visual and textile arts\, photography\, film\, dance\, and improvisation to address questions of gender\, sexuality\, and race.  This series will explore the intersections of literature\, writing and performance\, and the ways that themes of nation\, exile\, trauma\, and joy move through individual\, collective and individual artistic practices.\nThis series will also feature three “Live Models\,” in the form of master conversations/performances\, mainly for the Creative/Critical (and other) graduate students\, faculty\, and the larger Cowell College Community. \n  \nWinter 2018 Schedule:\nJanuary 25th: Jennifer Tamayo\nFebruary 1st: Karen Tei Yamashita\nFebruary 15th: Duriel E. Harris\nFebruary 22nd: Cecilia Vicuña\nMarch 15th: UCSC Creative Writing Program\, Undergraduate Student Reading \n  \nAll Living Writers readings are free and open to the public. Please contact Ronaldo Wilson at rvwilson@ucsc.edu with any questions or concerns. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Endowment\, Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment\, the Chicano Latino Research Center\, Cowell College\, Bay Tree Bookstore\, the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth M. Puknat Literary Series Endowment\, and Literature Department and Creative Writing Program. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-cecilia-vicuna-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/living-writers-w18.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180215T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180215T185000 DTSTAMP:20260428T050249 CREATED:20171227T183840Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180110T213725Z UID:10006571-1518715200-1518720600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Duriel E. Harris DESCRIPTION:Duriel E. Harris\, poet\, performer\, and sound artist\, is author of No Dictionary of a Living\nTongue\, Drag and Amnesiac and coauthor of the poetry video Speleology. Current undertakings\ninclude “Blood Labyrinth” and the solo performance project Thingification. Harris is an\nassociate professor of English in the graduate creative writing program at Illinois State\nUniversity and the Editor of Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora. \n  \nLiving Writers Series Winter 2018: \nPerforming Women: Race\, Art\, and Space \nPerforming Women: Race\, Art and Space features four contemporary writers/artists whose writing and art moves between multiple modes: poetry\, prose\, visual and textile arts\, photography\, film\, dance\, and improvisation to address questions of gender\, sexuality\, and race.  This series will explore the intersections of literature\, writing and performance\, and the ways that themes of nation\, exile\, trauma\, and joy move through individual\, collective and individual artistic practices.\nThis series will also feature three “Live Models\,” in the form of master conversations/performances\, mainly for the Creative/Critical (and other) graduate students\, faculty\, and the larger Cowell College Community. \n  \nWinter 2018 Schedule:\nJanuary 25th: Jennifer Tamayo\nFebruary 1st: Karen Tei Yamashita\nFebruary 15th: Duriel E. Harris\nFebruary 22nd: Cecilia Vicuña\nMarch 15th: UCSC Creative Writing Program\, Undergraduate Student Reading \n  \nAll Living Writers readings are free and open to the public. Please contact Ronaldo Wilson at rvwilson@ucsc.edu with any questions or concerns. \n \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Endowment\, Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment\, the Chicano Latino Research Center\, Cowell College\, Bay Tree Bookstore\, the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth M. Puknat Literary Series Endowment\, and Literature Department and Creative Writing Program. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-duriel-e-harris-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/living-writers-w18.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180201T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180201T185000 DTSTAMP:20260428T050249 CREATED:20171227T183350Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180131T183651Z UID:10006570-1517505600-1517511000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Karen Tei Yamashita DESCRIPTION:Karen Tei Yamashita is the author of Through the Arc of the Rain Forest\, Brazil-Maru\, Tropic of Orange\, Circle K Cycles\, I Hotel\, Anime Wong: Fictions of Performance\, and most recently\, Letters to Memory\, all published by Coffee House Press. I Hotel was selected as a finalist for the National Book Award and awarded the California Book Award\, the American Book Award\, the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association Award\, and the Association for Asian American Studies Book Award. She received a US Artists Ford Foundation Fellowship and is Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. \n  \nLiving Writers Series Winter 2018: \nPerforming Women: Race\, Art\, and Space \nPerforming Women: Race\, Art and Space features four contemporary writers/artists whose writing and art moves between multiple modes: poetry\, prose\, visual and textile arts\, photography\, film\, dance\, and improvisation to address questions of gender\, sexuality\, and race.  This series will explore the intersections of literature\, writing and performance\, and the ways that themes of nation\, exile\, trauma\, and joy move through individual\, collective and individual artistic practices.\nThis series will also feature three “Live Models\,” in the form of master conversations/performances\, mainly for the Creative/Critical (and other) graduate students\, faculty\, and the larger Cowell College Community. \n  \nWinter 2018 Schedule:\nJanuary 25th: Jennifer Tamayo\nFebruary 1st: Karen Tei Yamashita\nFebruary 15th: Duriel E. Harris\nFebruary 22nd: Cecilia Vicuña\nMarch 15th: UCSC Creative Writing Program\, Undergraduate Student Reading \n  \nAll Living Writers readings are free and open to the public. Please contact Ronaldo Wilson at rvwilson@ucsc.edu with any questions or concerns. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Endowment\, Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment\, the Chicano Latino Research Center\, Cowell College\, Bay Tree Bookstore\, the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth M. Puknat Literary Series Endowment\, and Literature Department and Creative Writing Program. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-karen-tei-yamashita-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/living-writers-w18.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180125T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180125T185000 DTSTAMP:20260428T050249 CREATED:20171227T182707Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180123T041537Z UID:10006569-1516900800-1516906200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Jennifer Tamayo DESCRIPTION:Jennif(f)er Tamayo is a writer and performer. She received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Chicago and her Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Louisiana State University. She is the author of the collection of poems and art work\, Red Missed Aches Read Missed Aches Red Mistakes Read Mistakes (Switchback\, 2011) and the limited edition chapbook POEMS ARE THE ONLY REAL BODIES  (Bloof Books\, 2013).  Her second full collection of poems and artwork is YOU DA ONE (Noemi 2017\, Coconut 2014). From 2010-2015\, JT has served as the Managing Editor for Futurepoem  an independent NYC press publishing contemporary poetry and prose. She is a Canto Mundo Fellow and a Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics EmergeNYC Fellow (2016.) She currently lives and works in Sacramento\, California. \n  \nLiving Writers Series Winter 2018: \nPerforming Women: Race\, Art\, and Space \nPerforming Women: Race\, Art and Space features four contemporary writers/artists whose writing and art moves between multiple modes: poetry\, prose\, visual and textile arts\, photography\, film\, dance\, and improvisation to address questions of gender\, sexuality\, and race.  This series will explore the intersections of literature\, writing and performance\, and the ways that themes of nation\, exile\, trauma\, and joy move through individual\, collective and individual artistic practices.\nThis series will also feature three “Live Models\,” in the form of master conversations/performances\, mainly for the Creative/Critical (and other) graduate students\, faculty\, and the larger Cowell College Community. \n  \nWinter 2018 Schedule:\nJanuary 25th: Jennifer Tamayo\nFebruary 1st: Karen Tei Yamashita\nFebruary 15th: Duriel E. Harris\nFebruary 22nd: Cecilia Vicuña\nMarch 15th: UCSC Creative Writing Program\, Undergraduate Student Reading \n  \nAll Living Writers readings are free and open to the public. Please contact Ronaldo Wilson at rvwilson@ucsc.edu with any questions or concerns. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Endowment\, Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment\, the Chicano Latino Research Center\, Cowell College\, Bay Tree Bookstore\, the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth M. Puknat Literary Series Endowment\, and Literature Department and Creative Writing Program. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-jennifer-tamayo-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/living-writers-w18.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171207T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171207T185000 DTSTAMP:20260428T050249 CREATED:20171004T190900Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171004T190900Z UID:10006552-1512667200-1512672600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Student Reading DESCRIPTION:This event will feature undergraduate student readings. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-student-reading-3-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/unnamed-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171130T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171130T185000 DTSTAMP:20260428T050249 CREATED:20171004T185756Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171004T185756Z UID:10006551-1512062400-1512067800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: James Janko & Ellen Greenblatt DESCRIPTION:James Janko refused to carry a weapon while serving in Viet Nam as a medic in an infantry battalion commanded by Colonel George Armstrong Custer III in 1970. His medals include the Bronze Star for Valor\, which he returned to the U.S. government in 1986 to protest their involvement in wars in Central America. In 2008\, Janko gave away other medals to Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange: Mrs. Dang Hong Nhut\, who suffers from thyroid cancer and has had numerous miscarriages\, and Ms. Tran Thi Hoan\, who was born without legs due to her mother’s exposure to Agent Orange. Janko’s novel\, The Clubhouse Thief\, won the AWP (Association of Writers and Writing Programs) Award for the Novel and is forthcoming from New Issues Poetry and Prose (Western Michigan University) in January of 2018. An earlier novel\, Buffalo Boy and Geronimo (Curbstone Press)\, received wide critical acclaim and two awards: The Association of Asian American Studies Prose Award and the Northern California Book Award for Fiction. Janko’s short stories have appeared in The Massachusetts Review. \nEllen Greenblatt’s work as an educator has often focused on teaching literature in the context of social and historical issues. She met and became friends with James Janko when he appeared several times as a guest in her course about the American War in Vietnam\, a course which included the voices of American\, Vietnamese\, and Vietnamese-American speakers and authors. As a result of that course\, Ellen became part of the Veterans Writing Group started by Maxine Hong Kingston. \nEllen’s writing work includes creating educational materials for television documentaries and for teachers of literature\, and she has developed a literature-based approach to teaching about conflict and its aftermaths. Ellen has worked with teachers throughout the US and internationally\, and she has been an on-stage interviewer for City Arts and Lectures in San Francisco\, conducting literary interviews before a live audience. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-james-janko-ellen-greenblatt-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/unnamed-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171109T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171109T185000 DTSTAMP:20260428T050249 CREATED:20171004T185226Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171004T185226Z UID:10005418-1510248000-1510253400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Toni Jensen DESCRIPTION:Toni Jensen’s first story collection\, From the Hilltop\, was published through the Native Storiers Series at the University of Nebraska Press. Her stories have been published in journals such as Ecotone\, Denver Quarterly\, and Fiction International and have been anthologized in New Stories from the South\, Best of the Southwest\, and Best of the West: Stories from the Wide Side of the Missouri. She’s working on a collection-in-progress\, called Cowboyistan\, about fracking and the sex trafficking of Indigenous women. She teaches in the Programs in Creative Writing and Translation at the University of Arkansas. She is Métis. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-toni-jensen-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/unnamed-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171102T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171102T185000 DTSTAMP:20260428T050249 CREATED:20170923T160806Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170923T160806Z UID:10006548-1509643200-1509648600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Sesshu Foster DESCRIPTION:Sesshu Foster is a poet\, teacher\, and community activist born and raised in East Los Angeles. He earned his MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and returned to LA to continue teaching\, writing\, and community organizing. His first collection of poetry\, City Terrace Field Manual (1996)\, celebrates the neighborhood Foster grew up in. He has said that representing his community as one of his central tasks. He is the author of American Loneliness: Selected Poems (2006). His third collection of poetry\, World Ball Notebook (2009)\, won an American Book Award and an Asian American Literary Award for Poetry. Foster is the author of the novel of speculative fiction Atomik Aztex (2005)\, which won the Believer Book Award and imagines an America free of European colonizers. \nFoster’s work has been published in The Oxford Anthology of Modern American Poetry (2000)\, Language for a New Century: Poetry from the Middle East\, Asia and Beyond (2008)\, and State of the Union: 50 Political Poems (2008). He coedited the anthology Invocation L.A.: Urban Multicultural Poetry (1989). Foster taught in East LA for 25 years as well as at the University of Iowa\, the California Institute for the Arts\, Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics\, and the University of California\, Santa Cruz. He lives in Los Angeles. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-sesshu-foster-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/unnamed-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171026T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171026T185000 DTSTAMP:20260428T050249 CREATED:20170923T160516Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170923T160516Z UID:10006547-1509038400-1509043800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Renee Tajima-Peña DESCRIPTION:Professor Renee Tajima-Peña is an Academy Award-nominated filmmaker whose credits include the documentaries\, Calavera Highway\, Skate Manzanar\, Labor Women\, My America…or Honk if You Love Buddha and Who Killed Vincent Chin? Her films have premiered at the Cannes\, Locarno\, New Directors/New Films\, San Francisco\, Sundance and Toronto film festivals and the Whitney Biennial. \nHer current works are the documentary and transmedia project\, No Más Bebés Por Vida (No More Babies For Life) about the sterilization of Mexican-origin women at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center during the 1960s and 70s\, and an interactive history documentary and video game-based learning project on the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans\, Building History 3.0. \nTajima-Peña has been deeply involved in the Asian American independent film community as an activist\, writer and filmmaker.  She was the director at Asian Cine-Vision in New York and a founding member of the Center for Asian American Media (formerly National Asian American Telecommunications Association.  As a writer\, she was a film critic for The Village Voice\, a cultural commentator for National Public Radio and editor of Bridge: Asian American Perspectives. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-renee-tajima-pena-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/unnamed-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171019T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171019T210000 DTSTAMP:20260428T050249 CREATED:20170923T160301Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170923T160301Z UID:10006546-1508439600-1508446800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Việt Thanh Nguyễn DESCRIPTION:Việt Thanh Nguyễn’s novel The Sympathizer is a New York Times best seller and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Other honors include the Dayton Literary Peace Prize\, the Edgar Award for Best First Novel from the Mystery Writers of America\, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction from the American Library Association\, the First Novel Prize from the Center for Fiction\, a Gold Medal in First Fiction from the California Book Awards\, and the Asian/Pacific American Literature Award from the Asian/Pacific American Librarian Association. His other books are Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War (a finalist for the National Book Award in nonfiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award in General Nonfiction) and Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America. He is the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. His current book is the bestselling short story collection\, The Refugees.  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-viet-thanh-nguyen-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/unnamed-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171012T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171012T185000 DTSTAMP:20260428T050249 CREATED:20170923T155714Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170923T155714Z UID:10006545-1507828800-1507834200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o DESCRIPTION:Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o\, novelist and theorist of post-colonial literature\, is currently Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California\, Irvine\, USA. He was born in Kenya\, in 1938 into a large peasant family. He was educated at Kamandura\, Manguu and Kinyogori primary schools; Alliance High School\, all in Kenya; Makerere University College (then a campus of London University)\, Kampala\, Uganda; and the University of Leeds\, Britain. \nIn his latest book\, Birth of a Dream Weaver: A Writer’s Awakening\, Ngũgĩ recounts the four years he spent in Makerere University in Kampala\, Uganda\, where he found his voice as a playwright\, journalist\, and novelist. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-ngugi-wa-thiongo-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/unnamed-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171005T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171005T185000 DTSTAMP:20260428T050249 CREATED:20170923T154944Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170923T154944Z UID:10006544-1507224000-1507229400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Michael Arcega DESCRIPTION:Michael Arcega is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in sculpture and installation. His research-based work revolves largely around language and sociopolitical dynamics. Directly informed by Historic narratives\, material significance\, and geography\, his subject matter deals with circumstances where power relations are unbalanced. \nAs a naturalized American\, his investigation of cultural markers are embedded in objects\, food\, architecture\, visual lexicons\, and vernacular languages. For instance\, vernacular Tagalog\, is infused with Spanish and English words\, lending itself to verbal mutation. This malleability result in wordplay and jokes that transform words like Persuading to First wedding\, Tenacious to Tennis Shoes\, and Masturbation to Mass Starvation. His practice draws from the sensibility of the insider and outsider- jumbling signifier\, material\, linguistics\, and site. \nMichael has a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and an MFA from Stanford University. His work has been exhibited at venues including the Asian Art Museum\, Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego\, the de Young Museum in San Francisco\, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts\, the Orange County Museum of Art\, The Contemporary Museum in Honolulu\, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston\, Cue Arts Foundation\, and the Asia Society in NY among many others. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-michael-arcega-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/unnamed-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161110T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161110T190000 DTSTAMP:20260428T050249 CREATED:20160913T195035Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160913T195035Z UID:10005266-1478798400-1478804400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Peter Orner DESCRIPTION:Peter Orner is the author of two story collections\, Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge and Esther Stories\, and two novels\, Love and Shame and Love and The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo. He has received the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, two Pushcart Prizes\, and was a finalist for both the PEN/Hemingway Award. and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His work has appeared in the New York Times\, the Paris Review\, the Atlantic\, and Best American Stories. Orner has received Guggenheim and Lannan Foundation Fellowships\, as well as a Fulbright to Namibia. A faculty member at San Francisco State University and the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers\, he has taught at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, the University of Montana\, and Northwestern University. He lives in San Francisco and Bolinas\, California. \nLiving Writers is an series of events that are free to students and the public\, and happens every Thursday night from 6-7:45pm in the Humanities Lecture Hall\, room 206. This series will be focusing on fiction writers as well as film makers. It’s going to be an exciting series and we hope to see you there!  For more details\, please email us at cwintern@gmail.com \nReadings sponsored by The Humanities Division\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Literature Department and Poets and Writers Inc. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-peter-orner-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/orner-thumb.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161027T052000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161027T190000 DTSTAMP:20260428T050249 CREATED:20160913T194910Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160913T194910Z UID:10005265-1477545600-1477594800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Elizabeth Willis DESCRIPTION:Elizabeth Willis’s most recent book\, Alive: New and Selected Poems (New York Review Books\, 2015)\, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Other books include Address (Wesleyan\, 2011)\, recipient of the PEN New England prize for poetry; Meteoric Flowers (Wesleyan\, 2006); Turneresque (Burning Deck\, 2003); and The Human Abstract (Penguin\, 1995). Her poems have appeared in recent issues of A Public Space\, Hambone\, Harpers\, The New Yorker\, and Poetry. Willis has received support from the Guggenheim Foundation\, the California Arts Council\, and the Howard Foundation. She recently joined the faculty of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. \nLiving Writers is a series of events that are free to students and the public\, and happens every Thursday night from 6-7:45pm in the Humanities Lecture Hall\, room 206. This series will be focusing on fiction writers as well as filmmakers. It’s going to be an exciting series and we hope to see you there!  For more details\, please email us at cwintern@gmail.com \n11/10 fiction and non-fiction writer Peter Orner\, author most recently of Am I Alone Here\, a memoir-essay hybrid about living to read/reading to live \nReadings sponsored by The Humanities Division\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Literature Department and Poets and Writers Inc. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-elizabeth-willis-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/elizabeth-willis-thumb.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161020T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161020T190000 DTSTAMP:20260428T050249 CREATED:20160913T194736Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160913T194736Z UID:10005264-1476984000-1476990000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Alfredo Vea DESCRIPTION:Alfredo Vea \nAlfredo Véa was born in the desert outside of Phoenix\, but not in America. His grandfather was a Yaqui Indian\, his grandmother was a Spanish-Mexican curandera who had played piano in silent movie theaters. Their grass covered adobe house stood at the epicenter of hundreds of tarpaper shacks built by Okies and Arkies. There were Apaches\, Tarahumara\, Navajo\, Hindus and black folk everywhere\, waiting for trucks to take them to the cotton fields. While his mother barely endured life in this impoverished Babel\, her son lived in a wonderland. He luxuriated in the sound of Uto-aztecan\, Athabascan\, Dravidian and drawl—and the sounds of bible thumping and jive. After ten years or so he was dragged away to work on the migratory labor circuit in California\, the land of stucco houses and aluminum window frames. All of it was drudgery until he began working in vineyards. Then he was ripped away from the vines to become a soldier\, enslaved in Vietnam. Today\, he is an attorney in San Francisco. If you ask him who he is he will never say “lawyer” or “writer.” Touch him and you will find that his skin is adobe. In his dreams\, there are goats scuffling about on the roof and he and his grandfather are asleep on a cot under the stars. \nLiving Writers is a series of events that are free to students and the public\, and happens every Thursday night from 6-7:45pm in the Humanities Lecture Hall\, room 206. This series will be focusing on fiction writers as well as filmmakers. It’s going to be an exciting series and we hope to see you there!  For more details\, please email us at cwintern@gmail.com \nLiving Writers Fall Schedule 2016 \n9/22 No reading \n9/29 Chanan Tigay \n10/6 Jennifer Chang \n10/13 Michelle Tea \n10/20 Alfredo Vea \n10/27 Elizabeth Willis \n11/3 No reading \n11/10 Peter Orner \n11/17 No reading \n11/24—Thanksgiving \n12/1 Student Reading \nReadings sponsored by The Humanities Division\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Literature Department and Poets and Writers Inc. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-alfredo-vea-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/alfredo-vea-thumb.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161006T052000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161006T190000 DTSTAMP:20260428T050249 CREATED:20160913T193808Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160913T193808Z UID:10006403-1475731200-1475780400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Jennifer Chang DESCRIPTION:Poet and scholar Jennifer Chang was born in New Jersey. She is a Henry Hoyns Fellow at the University of Virginia\, where she is a PhD candidate. Chang’s lyrical poems often explore the shifting boundaries between the outer world and the self. Chang’s debut poetry collection\, The History of Anonymity (2008)\, was selected for the Virginia Quarterly Review’s Poetry Series and was a finalist for the Shenandoah/ Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers. Speaking to the “emotional landscapes” of myths and fairy tales that surface occasionally in her poems\, Chang stated in a 2008 interview on Critical Mass (the blog of the National Book Critics Circle board of directors): “As a scholar\, I don’t trust autobiography\, and as a lyric poet\, I don’t trust narrative: both enforce a coherence that reveals more about the writer’s motives at the moment rather than the life or story being told. What I do trust is mystery; I trust confusion.”Chang co-chairs the advisory board of Kundiman\, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the support and promotion of Asian American poetry. She lives in Charlottesville\, Virginia. \nLiving Writers is a series of events that are free to students and the public\, and happens every Thursday night from 6-7:45pm in the Humanities Lecture Hall\, room 206. This series will be focusing on fiction writers as well as filmmakers. It’s going to be an exciting series and we hope to see you there!  For more details\, please email us at cwintern@gmail.com \n10/13 experimental memoirist Michelle Tea\, author most recently of the apocalyptic memoir Black Wave \n10/20 novelist Alfredo Vea\, author most recently of The Mexican Flyboy\, about a Latino super hero who goes back in time to save historical heroes from painful deaths \n10/27 poet and Pulitzer prize finalist Elizabeth Willis \n  \n11/10 fiction and non-fiction writer Peter Orner\, author most recently of Am I Alone Here\, a memoir-essay hybrid about living to read/reading to live \nReadings sponsored by The Humanities Division\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Literature Department and Poets and Writers Inc. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-jennifer-chang-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/jennifer-chang-thumb.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160929T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160929T190000 DTSTAMP:20260428T050249 CREATED:20160913T193447Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160913T193447Z UID:10006402-1475169600-1475175600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Chanan Tigay DESCRIPTION:Author of the forthcoming Unholy Scriptures: Fraud\, Suicide\, Scandal—and the Bible that Rocked the Holy City (Ecco/HarperCollins)\, and two long works of nonfiction\, The Special Populations Unit: Arab Soldiers in Israel’s Army (McSweeney’s) and Nuclear Meltdown\, released on the one-year anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan (Rodale Press). Tigay was awarded the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism’s 2011-2012 Investigative Reporting Fellowship\, where he worked on a documentary film about Israel’s opposition to the Iranian nuclear program for PBS “Frontline.” His journalism has appeared in publications including Newsweek\, the Wall Street Journal\, New York magazine\, the San Francisco Chronicle and The Jerusalem Post. Tigay has taught courses in Stanford University’s Continuing Studies Program on novel writing\, the “writing life\,” creative non-fiction\, magazine and feature writing; and was a writing instructor at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. He has received residency fellowships at Yaddo\, the Blue Mountain Center and the Mesa Refuge. He holds an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University and a BA in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania. Born in Jerusalem and raised in Philadelphia\, Tigay is an assistant professor at San Francisco State. \nLiving Writers is a series of events that are free to students and the public\, and happens every Thursday night from 6-7:45pm in the Humanities Lecture Hall\, room 206. This series will be focusing on fiction writers as well as filmmakers. It’s going to be an exciting series and we hope to see you there!  For more details\, please email us at cwintern@gmail.com \nLiving Writers Fall 2016 \n10/6 poet Jennifer Chang\, author most recently of the book Some Say The Lark \n10/13 experimental memoirist Michelle Tea\, author most recently of the apocalyptic memoir Black Wave \n10/20 novelist Alfredo Vea\, author most recently of The Mexican Flyboy\, about a Latino super hero who goes back in time to save historical heroes from painful deaths \n10/27 poet and Pulitzer prize finalist Elizabeth Willis \n11/10 fiction and non-fiction writer Peter Orner\, author most recently of Am I Alone Here\, a memoir-essay hybrid about living to read/reading to live \nReadings sponsored by The Humanities Division\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Literature Department and Poets and Writers Inc. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-chanan-tigay-3/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/tigay-thumb.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141113T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141113T180000 DTSTAMP:20260428T050249 CREATED:20141105T000307Z LAST-MODIFIED:20141105T000307Z UID:10005910-1415901600-1415901600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Fifth Annual Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading DESCRIPTION:THE 5th ANNUAL MORTON MARCUS MEMORIAL POETRY READING honors poet\, teacher and film critic Morton Marcus (1936-2009)\, one of Santa Cruz’s beloved cultural icons. This fifth annual event will feature award-winning poets Peter Everwine and Chuck Hanzlicek. The evening will be hosted by Gary Young and will also feature the winner of the 3rd Annual Morton Marcus Poetry Contest\, Marsha De La O. \nSeating is limited. Free parking in lots E\, F\, G and H. All other lots will be ticketed. \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/fifth-annual-morton-marcus-memorial-poetry-reading-2/ LOCATION:Cabrillo College Room 450 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131121T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131121T194500 DTSTAMP:20260428T050249 CREATED:20131004T032812Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131004T032812Z UID:10005527-1385056800-1385063100@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Douglas Kearney DESCRIPTION:Thresholds and Breaking Points \nThe writers in this series will present across multiple genres\, to include poetry\, fiction\, criticism\, and various hybrid genres. Each will explore ways that language tests thresholds of culture\, race\, nation\, sex\, gender\, and desire through the creative imagination. Central to each will be how these thresholds are performed\, tested\, broken\, clarified and complicated in their works. \nPoet/performer/librettist Douglas Kearney’s second\, full-length collection of poetry\, The Black Automaton (Fence Books\, 2009)\, was Catherine Wagner’s selection for the National Poetry Series. Red Hen Press will publish Kearney’s third collection\, Patter\, in 2014. He has received a Whiting Writers Award\, a Coat Hanger award and fellowships at Idyllwild\, Cave Canem\, and others. He teaches at CalArts. \nLocation and Time: All Readings located at Kresge Town Hall 466 | 6-7:45pm \nThe Living Writers Series is co-sponsored by the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, a Poets & Writers through the grant from the James Irvine Foundation\, the Literature Department and the Creative Writing Program\, Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading\, and a Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-douglas-kearney-2/ LOCATION:Kresge Town Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131114T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131114T194500 DTSTAMP:20260428T050249 CREATED:20131004T032547Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180716T182836Z UID:10005525-1384452000-1384458300@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Morton Marcus Poetry Reading: Naomi Shihab Nye DESCRIPTION:Thresholds and Breaking Points \nThe writers in this series will present across multiple genres\, to include poetry\, fiction\, criticism\, and various hybrid genres. Each will explore ways that language tests thresholds of culture\, race\, nation\, sex\, gender\, and desire through the creative imagination. Central to each will be how these thresholds are performed\, tested\, broken\, clarified and complicated in their works. \nNaomi Shihab Nye is an Award-winning Palestinian-American Poet\, Writer\, Anthologist\, and Educator. She is the author/or editor of more than thirty volumes of poetry\, essays\, short stories\, novels and anthologies including: 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East\, A Maze Me: Poems for Girls\, Red Suitcase\, Words Under the Words\, Fuel\, and You & Yours (a best-selling poetry book of 2006). She has read and led writing workshops extensively both nationally and internationally. Shihab Nye has been a Lannan Fellow\, a Guggenheim Fellow\, and a Witter Bynner Fellow. She has received a Lavan Award from the Academy of American Poets\, four Pushcart Prizes\, and numerous honors for her children’s literature. In 2010\, Shihab Nye was elected to the Board of Chancellors of the Academy of American Poets. In 2012\, she was named laureate of the 2013 NSK Prize for Children’s Literature. \nLocation and Time: All Readings located at Kresge Town Hall 466 | 6-7:45pm \nThe Living Writers Series is co-sponsored by the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, a Poets & Writers through the grant from the James Irvine Foundation\, the Literature Department and the Creative Writing Program\, Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading\, and a Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-naomi-shihab-nye-2/ LOCATION:Kresge Town Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131107T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131107T194500 DTSTAMP:20260428T050249 CREATED:20131004T032131Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131004T032131Z UID:10005524-1383847200-1383853500@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Carolyn Cooke DESCRIPTION:Thresholds and Breaking Points \nThe writers in this series will present across multiple genres\, to include poetry\, fiction\, criticism\, and various hybrid genres. Each will explore ways that language tests thresholds of culture\, race\, nation\, sex\, gender\, and desire through the creative imagination. Central to each will be how these thresholds are performed\, tested\, broken\, clarified and complicated in their works. \nCarolyn Cooke’s novel Daughters of the Revolution was listed among the best novels of 2011 by the San Francisco Chronicle and The New Yorker Magazine.  Her short fiction\, collected in The Bostons\, won the PEN/Bingham Award\, and has appeared in AGNI\, The Paris Review\, Ploughshares and two volumes each of Best American Short Stories and O. Henry Prize Stories. Her new collection\, Amor & Psycho\, was published by Alfred A. Knopf this summer. Carolyn directs the MFA programs at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. \nLocation and Time: All Readings located at Kresge Town Hall 466 | 6-7:45pm \nThe Living Writers Series is co-sponsored by the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, a Poets & Writers through the grant from the James Irvine Foundation\, the Literature Department and the Creative Writing Program\, Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading\, and a Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-carolyn-cooke-2/ LOCATION:Kresge Town Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131024T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131024T194500 DTSTAMP:20260428T050249 CREATED:20131004T031116Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131004T031116Z UID:10005523-1382637600-1382643900@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Ruth Ellen Kocher DESCRIPTION:Thresholds and Breaking Points \nThe writers in this series will present across multiple genres\, to include poetry\, fiction\, criticism\, and various hybrid genres. Each will explore ways that language tests thresholds of culture\, race\, nation\, sex\, gender\, and desire through the creative imagination. Central to each will be how these thresholds are performed\, tested\, broken\, clarified and complicated in their works. \nRuth Ellen Kocher is the author of Ending in Planes (Noemi Press\, date TBA)\, Goodbye Lyric: The Gigans and Lovely Gun (Sheep Meadow Press 2014)\, domina Un/blued (Tupelo Press 2013)\, One Girl Babylon (New Issues Press 2003)\, When the Moon Knows You’re Wandering\, winner of the Green Rose Prize in Poetry (New Issues Press 2002)\, and Desdemona’s Fire winner of the Naomi Long Madget Award for African American Poets (Lotus Press 1999). Her poems are widely anthologized\, and she has been awarded fellowships from the Cave Canem Foundation\, the Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets\, and Yaddo. She is Associate Chair of English and Director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Colorado where she teaches innovative Poetry\, Poetics\, and Literature. \nLocation and Time: All Readings located at Kresge Town Hall 466 | 6-7:45pm \nThe Living Writers Series is co-sponsored by the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, a Poets & Writers through the grant from the James Irvine Foundation\, the Literature Department and the Creative Writing Program\, Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading\, and a Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-ruth-ellen-kocher-2/ LOCATION:Kresge Town Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131017T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131017T194500 DTSTAMP:20260428T050249 CREATED:20131004T030755Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131004T030755Z UID:10005512-1382032800-1382039100@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Frances Richard DESCRIPTION:Thresholds and Breaking Points \nThe writers in this series will present across multiple genres\, to include poetry\, fiction\, criticism\, and various hybrid genres. Each will explore ways that language tests thresholds of culture\, race\, nation\, sex\, gender\, and desire through the creative imagination. Central to each will be how these thresholds are performed\, tested\, broken\, clarified and complicated in their works. \nFrances Richard is the author of Anarch. (Futurepoem\, 2012)\, The Phonemes (Les Figues Press\, 2012) and See Through (Four Way Books\, 2003)\, as well as the chapbooks Shaved Code (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs\, 2008) and Anarch. (Woodland Editions\, 2008). She writes frequently about contemporary art and is co-author\, with Jeffrey Kastner and Sina Najafi\, of Odd Lots: Revisiting Gordon Matta-Clark’s “Fake Estates” (Cabinet Books\, 2005). She has been a visiting scholar at the Canadian Centre for Architecture\, the recipient of a Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant and\, most recently\, a research grant from the Graham Foundation. Currently she teaches at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. \nLocation and Time: All Readings located at Kresge Town Hall 466 | 6-7:45pm \nThe Living Writers Series is co-sponsored by the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, a Poets & Writers through the grant from the James Irvine Foundation\, the Literature Department and the Creative Writing Program\, Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading\, and a Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-frances-richard-2/ LOCATION:Kresge Town Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131010T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131010T194500 DTSTAMP:20260428T050249 CREATED:20131004T025919Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131004T025919Z UID:10005491-1381428000-1381434300@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Lucy Corin DESCRIPTION:Thresholds and Breaking Points \nThe writers in this series will present across multiple genres\, to include poetry\, fiction\, criticism\, and various hybrid genres. Each will explore ways that language tests thresholds of culture\, race\, nation\, sex\, gender\, and desire through the creative imagination. Central to each will be how these thresholds are performed\, tested\, broken\, clarified and complicated in their works. \nLucy Corin is the author of the short story collection The Entire Predicament (Tin House Books) and the novel Everyday Psychokillers: A History for Girls (FC2). The collection One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses was just released from McSweeney’s Books. Stories have appeared in American Short Fiction\, Conjunctions\, Ploughshares\, Tin House Magazine\, New Stories From the South: The Year’s Best and other places. She’s been a fellow at Breadloaf and Sewanee\, and spent last year at the American Academy in Rome as the 2012 John Guare Fellow in Literature. She now directs the Creative Writing Program at the University of California\, Davis. \nLocation and Time: All Readings located at Kresge Town Hall 466 | 6-7:45pm \nThe Living Writers Series is co-sponsored by the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, a Poets & Writers through the grant from the James Irvine Foundation\, the Literature Department and the Creative Writing Program\, Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading\, and a Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-lucy-corin-2/ LOCATION:Kresge Town Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130606T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130606T193000 DTSTAMP:20260428T050249 CREATED:20130401T174024Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130401T174024Z UID:10005387-1370541600-1370547000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Living Writers Reading Series: Student Readings DESCRIPTION:Please join us for readings by UCSC’s creative writing students. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-living-writers-reading-series-student-readings-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130220T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130220T170000 DTSTAMP:20260428T050249 CREATED:20130117T233158Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130117T233158Z UID:10005320-1361374200-1361379600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Creative Writing Reading by Amaranth Borsuk DESCRIPTION:Amaranth Borsuk is the author of Handiwork (Slope\, 2012)\, selected by Paul Hoover for the 2011 Slope Books Prize\, and\, together with programmer Brad Bouse\, of Between Page and Screen (Siglio\, 2012)\, a book of augmented-reality poems. In 2010\, her chapbook-length erasure\, Tonal Saw\, was published by The Song Cave. Her poems\, essays\, translations and reviews have appeared widely in print and online\, and pieces have recently appeared or are forthcoming in The Chicago Review\, Spoon River Poetry Review\, American Letters & Commentary\, and The Sonnets: Translating and Rewriting Shakespeare. Her intermedia project Abra\, a hybrid book-performance collaboration with Kate Durbin\, Zach Kleyn\, and Ian Hatcher\, recently received an Expanded Artists’ Books grant from the Center for Book and Paper Arts in Chicago and will be issued as an artist’s book and iOS app in fall of 2013. She teaches in the MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics at the University of Washington\, Bothell. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/creative-writing-reading-by-amaranth-borsuk-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130213T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130213T170000 DTSTAMP:20260428T050249 CREATED:20130117T232803Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130117T232803Z UID:10004783-1360769400-1360774800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Creative Writing Reading by Ronaldo Wilson DESCRIPTION:Ronaldo V. Wilson is the author of Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man (University of Pittsburgh\, 2008)\, winner of the 2007 Cave Canem Poetry Prize and Poems of the Black Object (Futurepoem Books\, 2009)\, winner of the Thom Gunn Award and the Asian American Literary Award in Poetry in 2010. His latest book\, Farther Traveler: Poetry\, Prose\, Other\, is forthcoming from Counterpath Press in 2013. Recent work appears or is forthcoming in the journals Callaloo\, Interim\, Bombay Gin\, Spoon River Poetry Review\, 1913\, and The Volta\, as well as in the anthologies Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry (Norton\, 2013); The Sonnets: Translating and Rewriting Shakespeare (Nightboat Books\, 2012); and Among Friends Engendering the Social Site of Poetry (University of Iowa Press\, 2013). He holds a PhD in English from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York\, a MA in Poetry from New York University’s Graduate Creative Writing Program\, and an AB in English from the University of California\, Berkeley. Co-founder of the Black Took Collective\, Wilson is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Poetry\, Fiction and Literature in the Literature Department of the University of California\, Santa Cruz. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/creative-writing-reading-by-ronaldo-wilson-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130206T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130206T170000 DTSTAMP:20260428T050249 CREATED:20130117T232002Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130117T232002Z UID:10004779-1360164600-1360170000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Creative Writing Reading by Josie Sigler Sibara DESCRIPTION:Stay tuned for more information. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/creative-writing-reading-by-josie-sigler-sibarra-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130130T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130130T170000 DTSTAMP:20260428T050249 CREATED:20130117T231531Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130117T231531Z UID:10004775-1359559800-1359565200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Creative Writing Reading by Carmen Gimenez Smith DESCRIPTION:Please stay tuned for more information. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/creative-writing-reading-by-carmen-gimenez-smith-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR