Living Writers Series Winter 2018: Performing Women: Race, Art, and Space Performing Women: Race, Art and Space features four contemporary writers/artists whose writing and art moves between multiple modes: poetry, prose, visual […]
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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. In Lieu of Cecilia […]
Duriel E. Harris, poet, performer, and sound artist, is author of No Dictionary of a Living Tongue, Drag and Amnesiac and coauthor of the poetry video Speleology. Current undertakings include […]
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 […]
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 […]
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16 November 2017 / 5 April 2020 by Jessica Guild | Leave a Comment
On November 16th, 2017, the Eighth Annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading presented by the Humanities Institute and the Living Writers Series featured Dorianne Laux. The Annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading honors […]
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24 October 2017 / 22 December 2017 by Whitney DeVos | Leave a Comment
October 19, 2017 By Scott Rappaport Award-winning American poet, Dorianne Laux will be the featured guest at the eighth annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading, Thursday, November 16, at 5:30 p.m. in the Humanities Lecture […]
17 October 2017 / 22 December 2017 by Whitney DeVos | Leave a Comment
Celebrated writer and cultural critic just named a 2017 MacArthur ‘Genius’ Fellow October 12, 2017 By Scott Rappaport On October 11, the MacArthur Foundation awarded Viet Thanh Nguyen a 2017 MacArthur […]
This event will feature undergraduate student readings.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
UCSC Creative Writing Program, Undergraduate Student Reading The UC Santa Cruz Creative Writing Program Presents The Lives of Other Songs Living Writers Series Spring 2017 Thursdays / 5:20-6:50pm / Humanities […]
Lauren Levin, author of The Braid (Krupskaya, 2016) Lauren Levin is the author of THE BRAID (Krupskaya, 2016) and the forthcoming TWO ESSAYS (Timeless, Infinite Light, 2018) as well as […]
Rosa Alcalá, author of Undocumentaries (Shearsman Books, 2010) Rosa Alcalá is the author of a poetry collection Undocumentaries (Shearsman Books, 2010) and two chapbooks: Some Maritime Disasters This Century (Belladonna, […]
Tongo Eisen-Martin, author of someone’s dead already (Bootstrap Press, 2015) Born in San Francisco, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a movement worker, educator, and poet who has organized against mass incarceration and […]
Event Photos: The Eighth Annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading presented by the Institute for Humanities Research and the Living Writers Series featuring Dorianne Laux Thursday November 16, 2017 at 5:30pm […]
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 […]
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 […]
Alfredo Vea Alfredo 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 […]
