BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Humanities Institute - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:The Humanities Institute 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: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 BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20210314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20211107T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20220313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20221106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20230312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20231105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20240310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20241103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20250309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20251102T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20260308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20261101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20270314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20271107T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260416T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260416T185500 DTSTAMP:20260418T015934 CREATED:20260402T175230Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260413T170823Z UID:10007901-1776360000-1776365700@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers with Joe De Vera and Josen Diaz DESCRIPTION:In Nourishment\, Us. \nJoe De Vera (WSU) Visual Artist and Josen Diaz (UCSC) Critic and Archivist \nJoe deVera’s paintings and installations are attempts to clarify the absurd theaters of human tragedy — examining the possible relationships between historiography and art objects — while simultaneously investigating the resonant aftermath of mass conflict. Having emigrated from the Philippines as a youth and enlisting in the U.S. Marines Corps after high school — serving two combat deployments to Iraq in support of the Second Gulf War/GWOT — deVera’s works are also autobiographical observations of power structures and the machines of empire. He joined the Sam Fox School from Wake Forest University. He earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting from California State University\, Fullerton\, and his Master of Fine Arts in painting and printmaking from Yale University. \nJosen Masangkay Diaz (she/they) writes and teaches about race\, gender\, colonialism\, and authoritarianism. Her book\, Postcolonial Configurations: Dictatorship\, the Racial Cold War\, and Filipino America (Duke University Press\, 2023)\, analyzes the formation of Filipino American subjectivity through a study of U.S.-Philippine cold war politics. Her writing appears in American Quarterly\, Social Text\, Critical Ethnic Studies Journal\, Signs\, and elsewhere. She serves as section editor for Lateral\, editorial board member for the Asian Journal of Women’s Studies\, Critical Ethnic Studies Journal\, and Feminist Pedagogy Journal. She received her Ph.D. in Literature from the University of California\, San Diego and was previously faculty at the University of San Diego and fellow with the Asian American Studies Center at the University of California\, Los Angeles. \nLiving Writers Spring 2026:  Our Nourishment\, US features poets\, writers\, critics\, visual and performance artists\, who demonstrate how writing and art enacts around the idea of freedom and the imaginary in the face of the constant threat of terror and erasure. In the presence of who we all are within marginalized yet expansively powerful fields of racialized and multiply lived complex and diverse identities\, please come as we convene in spirit\, deep celebration\, and resource with one another. \nAbout the Living Writers Series\nThe Living Writers Series (LWS) is a live reading series organized especially for the Creative Writing Program community at UCSC. There is a new series each quarter\, and each series features writers with unique voices. The LWS is open to all creative writing students and the public. \n\nSponsored by the Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Humanities Institute\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, and the Bay Tree Bookstore. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-with-joe-de-vera-and-josen-diaz/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241205T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241205T185000 DTSTAMP:20260418T015934 CREATED:20241007T173941Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241007T174939Z UID:10007520-1733419200-1733424600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Student Reading DESCRIPTION:Living Writers Series – Fall 2024 \nGrowing Things\n~ gardens\, poems\, emotions\, relationships\, stories\, our artistic practices\, carefully tended\, beautifully ordered\, rewilded and wild ~ \n\nSponsored by The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, Bookshop Santa Cruz\, and Two Birds Books\, which provides books for purchase at the readings. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-student-reading-fall-2024/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241024T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241024T185000 DTSTAMP:20260418T015934 CREATED:20241007T173512Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241007T173512Z UID:10007519-1729790400-1729795800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers with Carolina Ixta DESCRIPTION:Living Writers Series – Fall 2024 \nGrowing Things\n~ gardens\, poems\, emotions\, relationships\, stories\, our artistic practices\, carefully tended\, beautifully ordered\, rewilded and wild ~ \nAbout The Living Writers Series \nThe Living Writers Series (LWS) is a live reading series organized especially for the Creative Writing Program community at UCSC. There is a new series each quarter\, and each series features writers with unique voices. The LWS is open to all creative writing students and the public. \nAbout the Author \nCarolina Ixta is a writer from Oakland\, California. A daughter of Mexican immigrants\, she received her B.A. in Creative Writing and Spanish Language and Literature at the University of California\, Santa Cruz and obtained her Master’s degree in Education at the University of California\, Berkeley. She is currently an elementary school teacher whose pedagogy centers critical race theory at the primary education level. Shut Up\, This is Serious is her debut novel. \n\nSponsored by The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, Bookshop Santa Cruz\, and Two Birds Books\, which provides books for purchase at the readings. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-with-carolina-ixta/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241017T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241017T185000 DTSTAMP:20260418T015934 CREATED:20241007T173000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241007T173000Z UID:10007518-1729185600-1729191000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers with Stacey D'Erasmo DESCRIPTION:Living Writers Series – Fall 2024 \nGrowing Things\n~ gardens\, poems\, emotions\, relationships\, stories\, our artistic practices\, carefully tended\, beautifully ordered\, rewilded and wild ~ \nAbout The Living Writers Series \nThe Living Writers Series (LWS) is a live reading series organized especially for the Creative Writing Program community at UCSC. There is a new series each quarter\, and each series features writers with unique voices. The LWS is open to all creative writing students and the public. \nAbout the Author \nStacey D’Erasmo is the author of the novels Tea\, A Seahorse Year\, The Sky Below\, Wonderland\, and The Complicities. She is also the author of the nonfiction books The Art of Intimacy: The Space Between and The Long Run: A Creative Inquiry. D’Erasmo’s work has been published in The New York Times Book Review\, New York Times Magazine\, Ploughshares\, Interview\, The New Yorker\, and the Los Angeles Times. She was a Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford University\, received a Guggenheim Fellowship in Fiction in 2009\, and won the Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize from the Lambda Literary Foundation in 2012. \nShe is currently a Professor of Writing and Publishing Practices at Fordham University in NYC. \n\nSponsored by The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, Bookshop Santa Cruz\, and Two Birds Books\, which provides books for purchase at the readings. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-with-stacey-derasmo/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241010T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241010T185000 DTSTAMP:20260418T015934 CREATED:20241004T172142Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241004T172533Z UID:10007502-1728580800-1728586200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers with Julián Delgado Lopera DESCRIPTION:Living Writers Series – Fall 2024 \nGrowing Things\n~ gardens\, poems\, emotions\, relationships\, stories\, our artistic practices\, carefully tended\, beautifully ordered\, rewilded and wild ~ \nAbout The Living Writers Series \nThe Living Writers Series (LWS) is a live reading series organized especially for the Creative Writing Program community at UCSC. There is a new series each quarter\, and each series features writers with unique voices. The LWS is open to all creative writing students and the public. \nAbout the Author \nJulián Delgado Lopera is the author of The New York Times acclaimed novel Fiebre Tropical (Feminist Press 2020)\, the Winner of the 2021 Ferro Grumley Award and a 2021 Lambda Literary award; a finalist of the 2020 Kirkus Prize in Fiction and the 2021 Aspen Literary Prize. Julián is also the author of Quiéreme (Nomadic Press 2017) and ¡Cuéntamelo! (Aunt Lute 2017) an illustrated bilingual collection of oral histories by LGBT Latinx immigrants which won a 2018 Lambda Literary Award and a 2018 Independent Publisher Book Award. \nJulián’s received fellowships and residencies from The National Endowment for the Arts\, Black Mountain Institute\, Creative Work Fund\, Hedgebrook\, California Arts Council\, San Francisco Arts Commission\, Headlands Center for The Arts\, Brush Creek Foundation of the Arts\, Lambda Literary Foundation and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Their work has appeared in Granta\, Teen Vogue\, The Kenyon Review\, McSweeney’s\, The Rumpus\, The White Review\, LALT\, Four Way Review\, Broadly\, TimeOut Mag to name a few. They are the former executive director of RADAR Productions and one of the founders of Drag Queen Story Hour. They have been curating Latinx history projects in San Francisco for over 10 years in partnerships with places such as the GLBT Historical Society\, SF Public Library\, El/la Para Translatinas\, Galería de la Raza and Brava Theatre. Born and raised in Bogotá\, Colombia\, Julián currently resides in San Francisco. Their second novel is forthcoming from Liveright. Watch their TED Talk here. \n\nSponsored by The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, Bookshop Santa Cruz\, and Two Birds Books\, which provides books for purchase at the readings. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-with-julian-delgado-lopera/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240509T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240509T190000 DTSTAMP:20260418T015934 CREATED:20240306T220856Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240403T214046Z UID:10007195-1715275200-1715281200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers with Graduate Alumni: Nathan Osorio and Kendall Grady DESCRIPTION:Living Writers Series – Spring 2024\nImaginaries)Un(bound: Race\, Justice\, Writing: The Living Writers Series\, the Center for Racial Justice\, and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) present poets\, theorists\, fiction and hybrid artists working at the nexus of creative-critical practice in the struggle for justice with the imperative of imaginatively undoing the academic and disciplinary strictures that bind critical scholarship. \nNathan Xavier Osorio’s debut full-length poetry collection\, Querida\, was selected by Shara McCallum as the winner of the 2024 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize and is forthcoming from the University of Pittsburgh Press. He is the author of The Last Town Before the Mojave\, selected by Oliver De la Paz for the Poetry Society of America’s 2021 Chapbook Fellowship. His poetry\, translations\, and essays have also appeared in BOMB\, The Offing\, Boston Review\, Public Books\, and the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City. His writing and teaching has been supported by fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center\, The Kenyon Review\, and Poetry Foundation. He is a PhD candidate in Literature and Creative/Critical Writing at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. \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 live with Jupiter 88\, Dusie\, and The Atlas Review. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-with-graduate-alumni-nathan-osorio-and-kendall-grady/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240418T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240418T185500 DTSTAMP:20260418T015934 CREATED:20240306T214135Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240403T213836Z UID:10007223-1713460800-1713466500@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers with Jennifer Tseng DESCRIPTION:Living Writers Series – Spring 2024\nImaginaries)Un(bound: Race\, Justice\, Writing: The Living Writers Series\, the Center for Racial Justice\, and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) present poets\, theorists\, fiction and hybrid artists working at the nexus of creative-critical practice in the struggle for justice with the imperative of imaginatively undoing the academic and disciplinary strictures that bind critical scholarship. \n \nJennifer Tseng’s forthcoming book\, Thanks for Letting Us Know You Are Alive\, poems made with her late father’s English letters\, won the Juniper Prize for Poetry and will be published by University of Massachusetts Press in spring 2024. She currently teaches literature and creative writing at University of California\, Santa Cruz. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-with-jennifer-tseng/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240411T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240411T185500 DTSTAMP:20260418T015934 CREATED:20240306T213259Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240404T165209Z UID:10007233-1712856000-1712861700@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers with micha cárdenas DESCRIPTION:Living Writers Series – Spring 2024\nImaginaries)Un(bound: Race\, Justice\, Writing: The Living Writers Series\, the Center for Racial Justice\, and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) present poets\, theorists\, fiction and hybrid artists working at the nexus of creative-critical practice in the struggle for justice with the imperative of imaginatively undoing the academic and disciplinary strictures that bind critical scholarship. \nmicha cárdenas\, PhD\, is an artist and Associate Professor of Critical Race & Ethnic Studies and Performance\, Play & Design\, at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, where she directs the Critical Realities Studio. Her book Poetic Operations\, Duke University Press (2022)\, proposes algorithmic analysis to develop a trans of color poetics. Poetic Operations was the co-winner of the Gloria Anzaldúa Book Prize in 2022 from the National Women’s Studies Association. cárdenas’s co-authored books The Transreal: Political Aesthetics of Crossing Realities (2012) and Trans Desire / Affective Cyborgs (2010) were published by Atropos Press. \nShe is a first generation Colombian American. Her solo and collaborative artworks have been presented in museums\, galleries and biennials including the Thessaloniki Biennial in Greece\, Arnolfini Gallery\, De La Warr Pavilion in London\, Museum of Modern Art in New York\, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions\, the Centro Cultural del Bosque in Mexico City\, the Centro Cultural de Tijuana\, the Zero1 Biennial and the California Biennial. Cárdenas is a member of the artist collective Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0; She posts updates on Mastodon at http://eldritch.cafe/@michacard URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-with-micha-cardenas/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240307T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240307T190000 DTSTAMP:20260418T015934 CREATED:20231130T224644Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231218T221027Z UID:10006198-1709832000-1709838000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers with Former Professors Peter Gizzi & Nathaniel Mackey DESCRIPTION:Living Writers – Winter 2024 – Return of the Beloved: An Alumni Series\nPeter Gizzi is the author of Now It’s Dark (Wesleyan\, 2020)\, Sky Burial: New and Selected Poems (Carcanet\, UK 2020)\, Archeophonics (Wesleyan\, 2016)\, In Defense of Nothing: Selected Poems 1987-2011 (Wesleyan\, 2014)\, Threshold Songs (Wesleyan\, 2011)\, The Outernationale (Wesleyan\, 2007)\, Some Values of Landscape and Weather (Wesleyan\, 2003)\, Artificial Heart (Burning Deck\, 1998)\, and Periplum (Avec Books\, 1992). He has also published several limited-edition chapbooks\, folios\, and artist books. \nHis honors include the Lavan Younger Poet Award from the Academy of American Poets (1994) and fellowships in poetry from The Fund for Poetry (1993)\, The Rex Foundation (1993)\, Howard Foundation (1998)\, The Foundation for Contemporary Arts (1999)\, and The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2005). He has twice been the recipient of The Judith E. Wilson Visiting Fellow in Poetry at The University of Cambridge (2011\, 2015-16). In 2018 Wesleyan published In the Air: Essays on the Poetry of Peter Gizzi. \nHe has held residencies at The MacDowell Colony\, Yaddo\, The Foundation of French Literature at Royaumont\, Un Bureau Sur L’Atlantique\, the Centre International de Poesie Marseille (cipM)\, and Tamaas. \nHis editing projects have included o·blēk: a journal of language arts (1987-1993)\, The Exact Change Yearbook (Exact Change/Carcanet\, 1995)\, The House That Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer (Wesleyan\, 1998)\, and with Kevin Killian\, My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer (Wesleyan\, 2008). For several years he was the Poetry Editor for The Nation. Since 2003\, he has been a contributing editor to the journal\, Conjunctions. \nHe has been on the faculty at Brown University (1993-95)\, the University of California\, Santa Cruz (1995-2001)\, the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics Summer Program at Naropa (1998\, 2007)\, The University of New Orleans Summer Program in Madrid (2004)\, Summer Literary Seminars in St. Petersburg (2006)\, The Writer’s Workshop at The University of Iowa (Fall 2008)\, and the University of Cambridge (2010-11 and 2015-16). He currently works at the University of Massachusetts\, Amherst. \nBorn in Miami and raised in Southern California\, poet\, novelist\, editor\, and critic Nathaniel Mackey earned his BA from Princeton University and his PhD from Stanford University. Mackey is the author of numerous books of poetry\, including Blue Fasa (2015)\, Nod House (2011)\, the National Book Award-winning Splay Anthem (2006)\, Whatsaid Serif (1998)\, and Eroding Witness (1985)\, which was chosen for the National Poetry Series. He has published several book-length installments of his ongoing prose work\, From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate\, beginning with Bedouin Hornbook in 1986. David Hajdu described the prose project as “not simply writing about jazz\, but writing as jazz” in a 2008 New York Times Book Review piece on the fourth volume in Mackey’s series\, Bass Cathedral (2007). Hajdu characterized the movement of language in the volumes as “kinetic and also contemplative\, elegiac and mercurial\, sometimes volatile.” The first three volumes of Mackey’s series were published together by New Directions in 2010. A recording of Mackey’s work Strick: Song of the Andoumboulou 16-25 was released in 1995 by Spoken Engine Company\, with musical accompaniment by Royal Hartigan and Hafez Modirzadeh. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-with-former-professors-peter-gizzi-nathaniel-mackey/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/LWBanner.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240222T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240222T190000 DTSTAMP:20260418T015934 CREATED:20231215T004505Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240215T214838Z UID:10006202-1708622400-1708628400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers with Poets Sarah Ghazal Ali and Julian Talamantez Brolaski DESCRIPTION:Living Writers – Winter 2024 – Return of the Beloved: An Alumni Series\nSarah Ghazal Ali is a poet\, teacher\, and editor. She is the author of Theophanies (Alice James Books\, 2024)\, selected as the Editors’ Choice for the 2022 Alice James Award. A Stadler Fellow and recipient of The Sewanee Review poetry prize\, her work has appeared in The American Poetry Review\, The Kenyon Review\, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day series\, and other publications. She is the poetry editor for West Branch and an incoming Assistant Professor of English at Macalester College. \nJulian Talamantez Brolaski (it / xe / them) is a poet and country singer\, the author of Of Mongrelitude (Wave Books 2017)\, Advice for Lovers (City Lights 2012)\, and gowanus atropolis (Ugly Duckling Presse 2011). Julian is a 2023 Bagley Wright lecturer\, a 2021 Pew Foundation Fellow\, and the recipient of the 2020 Cy Twombly Award for Poetry. Its poems were recently included in When the Light of the World was Subdued\, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry (2020) and We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics (Nightboat 2020). With its band Juan & the Pines\, it released an EP Glittering Forest in 2019; Julian’s first full-length album\, It’s Okay Honey was released in August 2023. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-with-undergraduate-poets-sarah-ghazal-ali-and-julian-talamantez-brolaski/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/LWBanner.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240201T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240201T190000 DTSTAMP:20260418T015934 CREATED:20231215T000737Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231218T220905Z UID:10006201-1706808000-1706814000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers with Undergraduate debut novelists Chiara Barzini & Rebecca Rukeyser DESCRIPTION:Living Writers – Winter 2024 – Return of the Beloved: An Alumni Series\nChiara Barzini is a screen\, fiction\, and journalism writer who was born in Rome and raised as a teenager in Los Angeles\, where she became obsessed with canyons\, quartz\, and the Grateful Dead. When she moved to New York she steered her fascinations towards the discovery that a huge slab of granite beneath the city of Manhattan is the reason why nobody there is able to walk or think slowly. The absence of a mineral subterranean life and psychedelia in the city of Rome\, made her return to the homeland a bit harsh\, but opened her up to new interests including: abandoned castles and the nightlife of cattle. \nShe lives in Rome with her partner Luca\, their children Sebastiano and Anita\, two cats\, and one dog. \nRebecca Rukeyser is the author of the novel The Seaplane on Final Approach (2022; Doubleday USA/ Granta Books UK). Her work has appeared in Best American Nonrequired Reading\, The Believer\, Granta\, The Guardian\, and Zyzzyva\, among others\, and was awarded the Berlin Senate Endowment for Non-German Literature. She’s a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Originally from Davis\, California\, Rebecca has lived and worked in South Korea\, Japan\, Turkey and China. \nShe currently lives in Germany\, where she teaches creative writing at Bard College Berlin. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-with-undergraduate-debut-novelists-chiara-barzini-rebecca-rukeyser/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/LWBanner.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240125T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240125T190000 DTSTAMP:20260418T015934 CREATED:20231130T213631Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231218T220043Z UID:10006197-1706203200-1706209200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers with Undergraduate Alumna Sina Grace DESCRIPTION:Living Writers – Winter 2024 – Return of the Beloved: An Alumni Series\nSina Grace is the author and illustrator of the autobiographical Self-Obsessed\, and Not My Bag\, which recounts a story of retail hell. He acts as the artist for Shaun Steven Struble’s cult hit\, The Li’l Depressed Boy\, and handles art chores along with co-writing the Image Comics hit series\, Burn the Orphanage. \nGrace has also done illustrations for all-ages readers\, including Among the Ghosts\, written by Amber Benson\, and Penny Dora & the Wishing Box\, written by Michael Stock. His previous works include the slice-of-life Books with Pictures\, and the neo-noir urban fantasy\, Cedric Hollows in Dial M for Magic. For a time\, he acted as Editorial Director for Robert Kirkman’s Skybound imprint at Image Comics. To date\, he’s worked for Marvel Comics\, IDW\, Boom\, Dynamite\, Valiant and more. His essays have appeared on several websites\, most notably Thought Catalog. \nHe lives in Los Angeles\, where he can be found in coffee shops working on whatever the next thing may be. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/68037/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/LWBanner.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240118T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240118T190000 DTSTAMP:20260418T015934 CREATED:20231204T194533Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231218T215325Z UID:10006199-1705598400-1705604400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers with Graduate Alumni: Emma Wood\, Jared Harvey\, Eric Sneathen\, Connor Bassett\, Jose Antonio Villará DESCRIPTION:Living Writers – Winter 2024 – Return of the Beloved: An Alumni Series\n \nC Dylan Bassett‘s first novel\, Gad’s Book\, was published in 2023. His writing has appeared in Chicago Review\, Quarterly West\, Denver Quarterly\, and elsewhere. He is an assistant professor of English at Xavier University in Cincinnati. \n  \n  \n  \n \nJared Joseph’s most recent writing has been published in The Los Angeles Review of Books\, The Iowa Review\, and Action. His A Book About Myself Called Hell was published by Kernpunkt Press in 2022\, and his novel Danny the Ambulance was published by Outpost 19 in 2023. Jared Joseph teaches at Los Angeles City College and lives in Los Angeles where he writes\, plays music\, and drinks coffee like it’s a hot dog eating contest. \n  \nEric Sneathen is the author of the poetry collections Don’t Leave Me This Way (Nightboat 2023) and Snail Poems (Krupskaya 2016)\, as well as a number of chapbooks\, including Minor Work (MO(0)ON/IO 2022). With Daniel Benjamin\, he organized Communal Presence: New Narrative Writing Today and co-edited the companion volume\, The Bigness of Things: New Narrative and Visual Culture (Wolfman Books 2017). He also co-edited\, with Lauren Levin\, Honey Mine (Nightboat 2021)\, the collected fictions of Camille Roy. His reviews have been featured at the Poetry Foundation and SF MoMA’s Open Space\, and his dissertation—”The Future Unites Us: A Gay Poetics of San Francisco\, 1944-2019″—is being revised for publication. He lives in Alameda\, CA and works for UCSC as the Graduate Program Coordinator for Latin American and Latino Studies. \n  \nJose Antonio Villarán has bilingual fluency (English – Spanish) as a writer\, scholar\, translator and instructor. He is the author of two books of poetry: la distancia es siempre la misma (2006) & el cerrajero (2012); one book of translation\, Album of Fences (2018); and creator of the AMLT project (http://amlt-elcomienzo.blogspot.pe)\, an exploration of hypertext literature and collective authorship. His third book\, titled open pit\, was published by AUB in 2022 and was nominated for a Northern California Book Award. \n  \nOriginally from New York City\, Emma Winsor Wood holds a BA from Harvard in Russian History & Literature and an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, where she taught literature and poetry writing. Her recent work appears in Fence\, ZYZZVA\, jubilat\, and DIAGRAM\, and her first book\, A Failed Performance: Short Plays and Scenes by Daniil Kharms\, a collaborative translation with the poet C Dylan Bassett\, was recently published by Plays Inverse Press. Her poetry manuscript\, Preferred Internal Landscape\, has been named a finalist in the CSU\, BOAAT\, Switchback Books\, Noemi Press\, Zone 3\, and the University of Wisconsin book contests.  She currently lives\, with her husband and their two dogs\, in the Santa Cruz mountains\, where she also works as an editor for Stone Soup Magazine. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-with-graduate-alumni-emma-wood-jared-harvey-eric-sneathen-connor-bassett-jose-antonio-villara/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/LWBanner.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231130T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231130T190000 DTSTAMP:20260418T015934 CREATED:20231001T225422Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231003T170225Z UID:10007315-1701364800-1701370800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers - Justin Torres DESCRIPTION:Justin Torres is the author of the novel Blackouts. His debut novel\, We the Animals\, won the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award\, was translated into fifteen languages\, and was adapted into a feature film. He was named a National Book Foundation “5 Under 35\,” a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University\, a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University\, and a Cullman Center Fellow at the New York Public Library. His short fiction and essays have appeared in The New Yorker\, Harper’s\, Granta\, Tin House\, The Washington Post\, LA Times Image Magazine\, and Best American Essays. He lives in Los Angeles\, and teaches at UCLA. \nSponsored by The Puknat Literary Endowment\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, Bookshop Santa Cruz\, and Two Birds Books (where the writers’ books are available for purchase) URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-justin-torres/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231026T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231026T190000 DTSTAMP:20260418T015934 CREATED:20230918T161312Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230918T161312Z UID:10006151-1698340800-1698346800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers – Deborah Landau DESCRIPTION:Deborah Landau is the author of five collections of poetry\, most recently Skeletons (‘23). Her other books include Soft Targets (winner of The Believer Book Award)\, The Uses of the Body\, and The Last Usable Hour\, all Lannan Literary Selections from Copper Canyon Press\, and Orchidelirium\, selected by Naomi Shihab Nye for the Robert Dana Anhinga Prize for Poetry. In 2016 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. \nThe Uses of the Body was featured on NPR’s All Things Considered\, and included on “Best of ″ lists by The New Yorker\, Vogue\, BuzzFeed\, and O\, The Oprah Magazine\, among others. A Spanish edition\, Los Usos Del Cuerpo\, was published by Valparaiso Ediciones in 2017. \nHer work has appeared in The New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, The Atlantic\, The New York Review of Books\, The Nation\, American Poetry Review\, Poetry\, CNN\, The Wall Street Journal\, The Yale Review\, and The New York Times\, and included in anthologies such as The Best American Poetry\, Please Excuse This Poem: 100 New Poets for the Next Generation\, Not for Mothers Only\, Resistance\, Rebellion\, Life: 50 Poems Now\, The Best American Erotic Poems\, and Women’s Work: Modern Poets Writing in English. \nLandau was educated at Stanford University\, Columbia University\, and Brown University\, where she was a Javits Fellow and received a Ph.D. in English and American Literature. She is a Professor at NYU\, where she directs the Creative Writing Program\, and she lives in Brooklyn with her family. \nSponsored by The Puknat Literary Endowment\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, Bookshop Santa Cruz\, and Two Birds Books (where the writers’ books are available for purchase) URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-deborah-landau/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231019T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231019T190000 DTSTAMP:20260418T015934 CREATED:20230918T160501Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230918T160827Z UID:10006150-1697736000-1697742000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers – J. Vanessa Lyon DESCRIPTION:J. Vanessa Lyon is the author of Lush Lives (an inaugural title of Roxane Gay Books/Grove Atlantic)\, the Audible Original The Groves\, and Meet Me in Madrid\, written under the pseudonym Verity Lowell. A James Baldwin fellow at MacDowell and Bread Loaf Contributor in Nonfiction\, she received a PhD in the history of art from UC Berkeley and teaches visual culture–with a focus on race\, queerness\, and gender–at Bennington College in Vermont. \nSponsored by The Puknat Literary Endowment\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, Bookshop Santa Cruz\, and Two Birds Books (where the writers’ books are available for purchase) URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-j-vanessa-lyon/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231012T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231012T190000 DTSTAMP:20260418T015934 CREATED:20230918T155916Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230918T155916Z UID:10006149-1697131200-1697137200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers – Thais Miller DESCRIPTION:Thaïs Miller is the author of the novel Our Machinery (2008) and the short story collection The Subconscious Mutiny and Other Stories (2009). She is a PhD Candidate in Literature\, pursuing a Creative/Critical Writing Concentration\, at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. She received her MA in Creative Writing for Social Activism from New York University in 2011 and her BA magna cum laude with Honors in Literature and a minor in Music Performance from American University in 2009. Her short stories\, dramatic writing\, poetry\, essays on craft\, book reviews\, and interviews have been published by CRAFT\, Nautilus\, The Los Angeles Review of Books’s PubLab\, Entropy\, The Common\, Vol. 1 Brooklyn\, Carolina Academic Press\, and appear in many other literary journals and magazines. For more information\, visit: https://thaismiller.wordpress.com/  \nSponsored by The Puknat Literary Endowment\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, Bookshop Santa Cruz\, and Two Birds Books (where the writers’ books are available for purchase) URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-thais-miller/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230511T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230511T172000 DTSTAMP:20260418T015934 CREATED:20230404T044608Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230404T045450Z UID:10007251-1683825600-1683825600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers - Ryan Eckes DESCRIPTION:Ryan Eckes is a poet from Philadelphia. He recently finished writing a book called General Motors about labor and the influence of public and private transportation on city life. Other books include Valu-Plus and Old News (Furniture Press 2014\, 2011). His poetry can be found in Tripwire\, Slow Poetry in America Newsletter\, Public Pool\, and elsewhere. He won a Pew Fellowship in 2016. \n\n\n  \nSponsored by The Puknat Literary Endowment\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, Bookshop Santa Cruz\, and Two Birds Books (where the writers’ books are available for purchase) URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-ryan-eckes/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230427T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230427T172000 DTSTAMP:20260418T015934 CREATED:20230404T044422Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230404T170022Z UID:10007252-1682616000-1682616000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers - Laura Jaramillo DESCRIPTION:Laura Jaramillo is a poet and critic from Queens\, New York living in Durham\, North Carolina. Her books include Material Girl (subpress\, 2012) and Making Water (Futurepoem\, 2022). She holds a PhD in critical theory from Duke University. She co-runs the North Carolina-based reading and performance series Paradiso. \n\n\n\nSponsored by The Puknat Literary Endowment\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, Bookshop Santa Cruz\, and Two Birds Books (where the writers’ books are available for purchase) URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-laura-jaramillo/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230302T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230302T185500 DTSTAMP:20260418T015934 CREATED:20230104T184526Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230104T184538Z UID:10007179-1677777600-1677783300@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers - Sara Freeman DESCRIPTION:Sara Freeman is a Canadian-British writer based in the United States. She graduated from Columbia University with an MFA in fiction in 2013. At Columbia\, she won the Henfield Prize for the best piece of short fiction by a graduate student. Her debut novel\, Tides\, is forthcoming from Grove Atlantic (US)\, Hamish Hamilton (Canada)\, and Granta (UK).\n \nSponsored by The Puknat Literary Endowment\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, Bookshop Santa Cruz\, and Two Birds Books (where the writers’ books are available for purchase) URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-sara-freeman/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230223T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230223T185500 DTSTAMP:20260418T015934 CREATED:20230104T184203Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230104T184203Z UID:10007180-1677172800-1677178500@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers - Shruti Swamy DESCRIPTION:Shruti Swamy is the author of the story collection A House Is a Body\, which was a finalist for the PEN/Bingham Prize\, the LA Times First Fiction Award\, and longlisted for the Story Prize. Her novel\, The Archer\, was longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize\, and won the California Book Award for fiction. The winner of two O. Henry Awards\, her work has appeared in The Paris Review\, McSweeny’s\, AFAR Magazine\, and the New York Times. \nShe is the recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts\, A Steinbeck Fellowship from San Jose State University\, and grants from the Elizabeth George Foundation\, the San Francisco Arts Council\, and Vassar College. She is a Kundiman Fiction Fellow\, and lives in San Francisco. \nSponsored by The Puknat Literary Endowment\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, Bookshop Santa Cruz\, and Two Birds Books (where the writers’ books are available for purchase) URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-shruti-swamy/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230202T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230202T185500 DTSTAMP:20260418T015934 CREATED:20230104T182855Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230104T183218Z UID:10007181-1675358400-1675364100@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers - K-Ming Chang DESCRIPTION:K-Ming Chang is a Kundiman fellow\, a Lambda Literary Award finalist\, and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree. She is the author of the New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice novel Bestiary (One World/Random House\, 2020)\, which was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award. In 2021\, her chapbook Bone House was published by Bull City Press. Her most recent book is Gods of Want (One World/Random House\, 2022). Her next books are a novel titled Organ Meats (One World) and a novella titled Cecilia (Coffee House Press). She loves folklore\, vampire literature\, and birdwatching in her home state of California.\n \nSponsored by The Puknat Literary Endowment\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, Bookshop Santa Cruz\, and Two Birds Books (where the writers’ books are available for purchase) URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230119T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230119T185500 DTSTAMP:20260418T015934 CREATED:20230104T182412Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230106T182420Z UID:10007182-1674148800-1674154500@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers - Jaime Cortez DESCRIPTION:Jaime Cortez is a writer and visual artist based in Watsonville\, California\, and the San Francisco Bay Area. His fiction\, essays\, and drawings have appeared in diverse publications that include “Kindergarde: Experimental Writing For Children” (edited 2013 by Dana Teen Lomax for Black Radish Press)\, “No Straight Lines\,” a 40-year compendium of LGBT comics (edited 2012 by Justin Hall for Fantagraphics Press)\, “Street Art San Francisco” (edited 2009 by Annice Jacoby for Abrams Press)\, and “Infinite Cities\,” an experimental atlas of San Francisco (edited 2010 by Rebecca Solnit for UC Berkeley Press). He wrote and illustrated the graphic novel “Sexile” for AIDS Project Los Angeles in 2003. \nCortez often combines humor and tragedy to tell stories of resilient survivors who exist on the margins of the economy\, the law\, and social acceptability. “Gordo” is Jaime’s debut collection of short stories. Black Cat\, an imprint of Grove Atlantic Press\, is the publisher of the book. \nCortez spent his early years in San Juan Bautista and Watsonville\, two California farm towns where the stories are set. He received his B.A. in Communications from the University of Pennsylvania\, and his fine art MFA at UC Berkeley. His website is www.jaimecortez.org. \nSponsored by The Puknat Literary Endowment\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, Bookshop Santa Cruz\, and Two Birds Books (where the writers’ books are available for purchase) URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-jaime-cortez/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/gordo.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221201T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221201T185500 DTSTAMP:20260418T015934 CREATED:20220920T202622Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220920T203452Z UID:10007133-1669915200-1669920900@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Student Reading DESCRIPTION:Conversations: Power Forged\, the Fall Living Writers theme\, features poets\, novelists\, academics\, curators\, and artists in conversation with one another\, in person\, across genre and media to open up a space between them\, and all of us\, within dialogue\, collaboration\, politics\, intimacy and difference which poet and activist Audre Lorde describes as that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged. Between legacies\, institutions\, families\, embodiments and homes; across race\, gender\, sexuality\, and class\, guests will explore just how. \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-dec-1/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221117T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221117T185500 DTSTAMP:20260418T015934 CREATED:20220928T204248Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221114T231620Z UID:10006013-1668705600-1668711300@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:CANCELLED - Living Writers: Terri Witek in conversation with Rachel Nelson DESCRIPTION:Terri Witek in conversation with Rachel Nelson \nConversations: Power Forged\, the Fall Living Writers theme\, features poets\, novelists\, academics\, curators\, and artists in conversation with one another\, in person\, across genre and media to open up a space between them\, and all of us\, within dialogue\, collaboration\, politics\, intimacy and difference which poet and activist Audre Lorde describes as that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged. Between legacies\, institutions\, families\, embodiments and homes; across race\, gender\, sexuality\, and class\, guests will explore just how. The Fall 2022 series is co-sponsored by the Center for Racial Justice. \nTerri Witek is the author of 7 books of poems\, most recently The Rattle Egg (2021); Something’s Missing in This Museum is forthcoming in 2023. Recent work has been featured in two international anthologies: JUDITH: Women Making Visual Poetry (2021)\, and in the WAAVe Global Anthology of Women’s Asemic Writing and Visual Poetry (2021). She has collaborated with Brazilian artist Cyriaco Lopes (cyriacolopes.com) since 2005–their works together include museum and gallery shows\, performance and site-specific projects featured internationally in New York\, Seoul\, Miami\, Lisbon\, Rio de Janeiro\, and Valencia. Witek holds the Sullivan Chair in Creative Writing at Stetson University\, and with Lopes teaches Poetry in the Expanded Field in Stetson’s low-residency MFA of the Americas. Their collaborative projects are represented by The Liminal\, Valencia Spain. terriwitek.com \nRachel Nelson\, PhD\, is director and chief curator of the Institute of the Arts and Sciences and adjunct professor in the History of Art and Visual Culture at University of California\, Santa Cruz. In her curatorial projects and research\, Nelson explores the transformative potential of art and culture. She is co-curator of the group exhibition Barring Freedom (2020-21)\, which looks at how artists engage the racialized histories and presents of the U.S. criminal legal system. Other curatorial projects include Bodies at the Borders with Carlos Motta\, Solitary Garden with jackie sumell and Tim Young\, and Visualizing Abolition\, an ongoing art and education program. Nelson has also has published widely\, including in Journal of Curatorial Studies\, Brooklyn Rail\, NKA\, Third Text\, Savvy\, and African Arts\, among others. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-terri-witek-in-conversation/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221110T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221110T185500 DTSTAMP:20260418T015934 CREATED:20220920T202420Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221018T215051Z UID:10007132-1668100800-1668106500@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Duriel E. Harris\, Bakar Wilson\, Elizabeth Owuor\, and Fahima Ife DESCRIPTION:Duriel E. Harris\, Bakar Wilson\, Elizabeth Owuor\, and Fahima Ife\, a reading and conversation to celebrate the launch of “Genre Queer/ Gender Queer Playground\,” Obsidian: Litrature and Arts in the African Diaspora\, guest edited by Ronaldo V. Wilson (moderator). \nConversations: Power Forged\, the Fall Living Writers theme\, features poets\, novelists\, academics\, curators\, and artists in conversation with one another\, in person\, across genre and media to open up a space between them\, and all of us\, within dialogue\, collaboration\, politics\, intimacy and difference which poet and activist Audre Lorde describes as that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged. Between legacies\, institutions\, families\, embodiments and homes; across race\, gender\, sexuality\, and class\, guests will explore just how. The Fall 2022 series is co-sponsored by the Center for Racial Justice. \nDuriel E. Harris is a writer\, performer\, artist\, and scholar. She is author of three critically acclaimed volumes of poetry\, including No Dictionary of a Living Tongue (Nightboat\, 2017)\, Drag (2003)\, and Amnesiac: Poems (2010). Multi-genre works include the one-woman theatrical performance Thingification\, the video collaboration Speleology (2011)\, and the sound+image project “Blood Labyrinth.” Cofounder of The Black Took Collective\, Harris is Professor of Poetry and Poetics at Illinois State University and Editor in Chief of the award-winning publishing platform Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora. \nBakar Wilson’s poetry has appeared in The Vanderbilt Review\, The Lumberyard Radio Magazine\, The Brooklyn Rail\, Flicker and Spark: A Contemporary Queer Anthology\, and The Ostrich Review\, among others. He has performed his work at the Bowery Poetry Club\, Poetry Project\, The Studio Museum of Harlem\, and the 2022 Whitney Biennial. A native of Memphis\, TN\, Bakar received his BA in English from Vanderbilt University and his MA in Creative Writing from the City College of New York. He is an Adjunct Lecturer of English and Creative Writing at Borough of Manhattan Community College at CUNY. \nElizabeth Owuor is a writer\, vinyl collector\, DJ\, and freelance journalist who interrogates the archives of Black music history\, blending intimate narrative with the collective history of her people. Her nonfiction utilizes rare blues and soul music to examine cultural inheritance\, Black creative labor\, and the ways in which Blackness is constructed and consumed in the U.S. and Europe. She has spun her sounds of Black resistance on vinyl all around the globe and is co-founder of Black Rhythm Happening\, an evening dedicated to unearthing gems from the sonic vaults. A Tin House alumna\, her journalism has been published in The San Francisco Chronicle\, The Christian Science Monitor\, and Germany’s Deutsche Welle. To keep the lights on\, she works as a copywriter in Silicon Valley. She pursued her Bachelors in Journalism from Emerson College and received a Master’s in Linguistics from the University of Edinburgh. Her writing has been supported by fellowships from MacDowell\, Hedgebrook\, and the California Arts Council. \nfahima ife (they/she\, any or no pronoun) is a poet\, professor\, and editor based in Northern California and New Orleans. She is associate professor of Black Studies in the department of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at University of California Santa Cruz. In her creative/critical work and in the classes she teaches\, fahima considers 20th and 21st century experimental black aesthetics\, ecological poetry and poetics\, performance art\, intimacy\, and pleasure. fahima mostly produces poems\, lyrical essays\, and hybrid experimental works. She is author of Maroon Choreography (Duke University Press\, 2021)\, the forthcoming poetry collection\, Arrhythmia (press TBA\, 2023)\, and other works. She is at work on poems\, a music of our sensing here. She is a contributing editor at Tilted House press\, and with Ian U Lockaby\, co-edits the forthcoming journal LUCIUS. \nRonaldo V. Wilson\, PhD\, poet\, interdisciplinary artist\, and academic\, is the author of Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man\, winner of the Cave Canem Prize; Poems of the Black Object\, winner of the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry and the Asian American Literary Award in Poetry; Farther Traveler: Poetry\, Prose\, Other\, finalist for a Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry; and Lucy 72. His latest books are Carmelina: Figures and Virgil Kills: Stories. The recipient of numerous fellowships\, including Cave Canem\, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown\, the Ford Foundation\, Kundiman\, MacDowell\, The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation\, and Yaddo\, Wilson is Professor of Creative Writing and Literature at U.C. Santa Cruz\, serving on the core faculty of the Creative Critical PhD Program; principal faculty member of CRES (Critical Race and Ethnic Studies); and affiliate faculty member of DANM (Digital Arts and New Media). \n  \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-nov-10/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221027T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221027T185500 DTSTAMP:20260418T015934 CREATED:20220920T201512Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221018T214921Z UID:10007131-1666891200-1666896900@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Addie Tsai in conversation with Micah Perks DESCRIPTION:Addie Tsai in conversation with Micah Perks. \nConversations: Power Forged\, the Fall Living Writers theme\, features poets\, novelists\, academics\, curators\, and artists in conversation with one another\, in person\, across genre and media to open up a space between them\, and all of us\, within dialogue\, collaboration\, politics\, intimacy and difference which poet and activist Audre Lorde describes as that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged. Between legacies\, institutions\, families\, embodiments and homes; across race\, gender\, sexuality\, and class\, guests will explore just how. The Fall 2022 series is co-sponsored by the Center for Racial Justice. \nADDIE TSAI (any/all) is a queer nonbinary artist and writer of color who teaches creative writing at the College of William & Mary. They also teach in Goddard College’s MFA Program in Interdisciplinary Arts and Regis University’s Mile High MFA Program in Creative Writing. Addie collaborated with Dominic Walsh Dance Theater on Victor Frankenstein and Camille Claudel\, among others. They earned an MFA from Warren Wilson College and a Ph.D. in Dance from Texas Woman’s University. Addie is the author of Dear Twin and Unwieldy Creatures. She is the Fiction co-Editor and Editor of Features & Reviews at Anomaly and Founding Editor & Editor in Chief at just femme & dandy. \nMicah Perks is the author of a short story collection\, a memoir and two novels. Her novel\, What Becomes Us\, won an Independent Publisher’s Gold Medal and was named one of the Top Ten Books about the Apocalypse by The Guardian. Her short stories and essays have appeared in Epoch\, Zyzzyva\, Tin House\, Kenyon Review\, OZY and The Rumpus\, amongst many journals and anthologies. She has won a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship\, the New Guard Machigonne Fiction Prize and residencies at the Blue Mountain Center and MacDowell. Micah directs the creative writing program at UCSC. More info at micahperks.com URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-addie-tsai/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220526T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220526T185500 DTSTAMP:20260418T015934 CREATED:20220330T205924Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220403T230214Z UID:10005948-1653585600-1653591300@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Gina Athena Ulysse DESCRIPTION:LIVING WRITERS UCSC\, SPRING 2022 presents: CELEBRANT: SOUND ACTIONS \nCELEBRANT: SOUND ACTIONS showcases interdisciplinary writers who deeply engage in various sonic forms\, whether the libretto and the operatic\, sound and visual art\, acoustic music and songwriting\, or embodied meditations to explore the possibilities in being attentive to sound\, as action and celebrant through writing.  This hybrid series features an array of writers and artists who work across several modes (text\, multi-media\, meditation\, and performance) exploring what happens between sound and/as verbal language\, rendering its effects and configurations through poetry\, prose\, and sound inspired and activated interdisciplinary writing practices. \n \nGina Athena Ulysse is an artist-scholar and Professor of Feminist Studies. In her ongoing crossings and dialogues between the arts\, humanities\, and the social sciences\, she engages in a practice of rasanblaj– the gathering of ideas\, things\, people\, and spirits. Her last book\, Because When God is Too Busy: Haiti\, me & THE WORLD (2017) was long-listed for the 2017 PEN Open Book Award and received the 2018 Best Poetry Connecticut Center for the Book Award. She was the invited editor of “Caribbean Rasanblaj\,” a double issue of e-misférica journal. Her articles\, essays\, and creative work have been published in Feminist Studies\, Gastronomica\, Interimpoetics\, Liminalities\, Meridians\, Third Text\, etc. She has also performed at The Bowery\, The British Museum\, Brooklyn Museum\, Gorki Theatre\, LaMaMa\, Marcus Garvey Liberty Hall\, MoMA Salon\, and the MCA. In 2020\, she was an invited artist to the Biennale of Sydney\, Australia. More info on: ginaathenaulysse.com \nSponsored by The Puknat Literary Endowment\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, and Bookshop Santa Cruz. \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-gina-athena-ulysse/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220519T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220519T185500 DTSTAMP:20260418T015934 CREATED:20220330T205751Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220403T230141Z UID:10005947-1652980800-1652986500@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Senior Projects Reading DESCRIPTION:LIVING WRITERS UCSC\, SPRING 2022 presents: CELEBRANT: SOUND ACTIONS \nCELEBRANT: SOUND ACTIONS showcases interdisciplinary writers who deeply engage in various sonic forms\, whether the libretto and the operatic\, sound and visual art\, acoustic music and songwriting\, or embodied meditations to explore the possibilities in being attentive to sound\, as action and celebrant through writing. This hybrid series features an array of writers and artists who work across several modes (text\, multi-media\, meditation\, and performance) exploring what happens between sound and/as verbal language\, rendering its effects and configurations through poetry\, prose\, and sound inspired and activated interdisciplinary writing practices. \nSponsored by The Puknat Literary Endowment\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, and Bookshop Santa Cruz. \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-senior-projects-reading/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220310T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220310T185500 DTSTAMP:20260418T015934 CREATED:20220110T165333Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220302T204640Z UID:10007048-1646932800-1646938500@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Sandra Lim DESCRIPTION:Sandra Lim is the author of the forthcoming poetry collection The Curious Thing (W.W. Norton\, 2021). Her previous books of poetry are The Wilderness (W.W. Norton\, 2014)\, winner of the Barnard Women Poets Prize selected by Louise Glück\, and Loveliest Grotesque (Kore Press\, 2006). Her writing has appeared in a range of literary journals\, including The New York Review of Books\, Poetry\, The New Republic\, The Baffler\, and The New York Times Magazine\, among others. Her poems and essays are anthologized in Counterclaims (Dalkey Archive Press\, 2020)\, The Poem’s Country (Pleiades Press\, 2018)\, The Echoing Green (The Modern Library\, 2016)\, and Among Margins (Ricochet Editions\, 2016). \nSandra’s honors include a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship\, a 2020 Arts and Letters Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, the 2015 Levis Reading Prize for The Wilderness\, as well as residency fellowships from MacDowell\, the Vermont Studio Center\, and the Getty Foundation. She is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and also serves on the poetry faculty in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. \nSponsored by The Puknat Literary Endowment\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, and Bookshop Santa Cruz (where the authors’ books are available for purchase) \nPlease note: this event is scheduled to be in-person in Humanities Lecture Hall and the location/in-person feature is subject to change. \n \n  \nChange Me: Stories of Radical Transformation – A Living Writers Series \nAfter a long period of sheltering in place and an even longer period of restricting our daily movements\, many of us are ready for change. This winter’s living writers all have stories of radical transformation to tell. TC Tolbert searches for a language to enact his transition from being Melissa to being TC; Jane Wong struggles to reconcile her American present with the transnational ghosts of her past; Yuri Herrera’s heroine embarks on a journey across the Mexican American border; Karen Tei Yamashita tells tales of ever changing demographics & invisible histories; Eric Wat’s protagonist remakes himself as he navigates drug abuse\, sexuality\, death and family dynamics; the speaker in Sandra Lim’s book of poems transforms not her life but the way she sees her life. All six writers remind us of the power of literature to transform us. They remind us that when we open a book\, often what we’re really saying is: change me. \nSee the full list of Living Writers Series events on the Creative Writing Program page. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-sandra-lim/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200313 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200315 DTSTAMP:20260418T015934 CREATED:20190925T214926Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200310T214831Z UID:10006781-1584057600-1584230399@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Writing for Living: A Conference in Honor of Helene Moglen (1936-2018) DESCRIPTION:With deep sadness\, we have to announce that this weekend’s conference in honor of Helene Moglen\, Writing for Life\, March 13-14\, with the first memorial Helene Moglen Lecture in Feminism and the Humanities and many other wonderful talks and events\, plus some amazing food\, is canceled because of the evil Covid 19 virus. Following CDC advice\, UCSC has mandated that all such events must be canceled. We will try to reschedule at a later date.  After all\, everyone has written their papers\, including Brenda Shaughnessy’s new poetry written especially for Helene.  Please spread the word about the cancellation to everyone you know who might have been considering coming. \n\nPlease save the date for a conference in honor of Professor Helene Moglen and the first Helene Moglen Lecture in Feminism and the Humanities. Colleagues and former students will speak about themes close to Helene’s heart. The written word\, with its poetics and practices of production\, social engagements\, and sites of conflict will serve as the focus for this two-day event. \nView the full program schedule here. \nKeynote speakers: \nMyra Jehlen
\, “Unreadable Writing” \nMyra Jehlen\, Board of Governors Emerita Professor of English at Rutgers\, will deliver the first Helene Moglen Lecture in Feminism and the Humanities. The author of American Incarnation: The Individual\, the Nation\, and the Continent (1989)\, Readings at the Edge of Literature (2002)\, and Five Fictions in Search of Truth (2009)\, Jehlen is currently completing a new book of essays on literary form\, and she will craft her keynote lecture from a paper for that book titled “The Great American Novel\, by Gertrude Stein.” \n  \nLeslie Bow\, “Writing In Absence” \nLeslie Bow\, Professor of English and Asian American Studies at the University of Wisconsin Madison and Helene’s former graduate student (PhD 1993)\, will speak on race fetishism and psychoanalysis. Her books include Betrayal and Other Acts of Subversion: Feminism\, Sexual Politics\, and Asian American Literature (Princeton UP\, 2001)\, ‘Partly Colored’: Asian Americans and Racial Anomaly in the Segregated South (New York UP\, 2010)\, and she will draw her talk from current work on “Racist Love: Asian Americans and the Fantasy of Race.” \n  \nSusan Derwin\, “Writing with Veterans” \nSusan Derwin\, Director\, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center and Professor\, German\, Slavic\, and Semitic Studies at UC Santa Barbara will speak about the essence of Helene’s relationship to writing as a practice that makes living possible. Derwin is founding director of the University of California Veterans Summer Writing Workshop and of Foundations in the Humanities\, a correspondence program for incarcerated individuals operating in multiple California prisons. She is the author of The Ambivalence of Form: Lukács\, Freud\, and the Novel (1992)\, Rage Is the Subtext: Readings in Holocaust Literature and Film (2012)\, and essays on trauma\, psychoanalytic theory and literature\, moral injury\, and narrative healing. \nBrenda Shaughnessy\, Poet \nBrenda Shaughnessy will read from her poetry at the opening and closing of the conference. An Assistant Professor of English at Rutgers University\, Shaughnessy was a double major in Literature and Women’s Studies and Helene Moglen’s undergraduate student in the early 1990s. A finalist for the prestigious international Griffin Poetry Prize and recipient of a Guggenheim award\, Shaughnessy has published poems in major literary magazines and several books\, including Human Dark with Sugar\, Interior with Sudden Joy\, and Our Andromeda. Her most recent book of poetry is titled The Octopus Museum. \nSponsored by the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth M. Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, the Literature Department\, the Humanities Division\, and the Office of the Chancellor. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/writing-for-living-a-conference-in-honor-of-helene-moglen-1936-2018/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/helen.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200305T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200305T173000 DTSTAMP:20260418T015934 CREATED:20200129T193047Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200304T000303Z UID:10006834-1583429400-1583429400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:CANCELLED - Living Writers: Konrad Steiner DESCRIPTION:Please note that this Thursday’s Living Writers reader\, Konrad Steiner\, wanted to respect the graduate student strike and not cross the picket lines. His reading/performance will be rescheduled for next year.  \nKonrad Steiner is a San Francisco based experimental filmmaker. He has been making 16mm films since 1981\, and since 2004 has been working with musicians and poets on live cinema. From 2004-2006 he was a curator at SF Cinematheque and from 2007-2009 co-produced the Kino21 film series which specialized in documentary and performative cinema. From 1999 to 2012 he made a collaborative film with Leslie Scalapino\, creating a feature length film cycle from her reading her book-length poem\, “way\,” which was the soundtrack. Between 2003 thru 2017 he worked with writers to produce a series of events in SF\, Oakland\, Santa Cruz\, LA\, NY\, Chicago\, Detroit\, Seattle\, and Providence RI around the practice of live film narration\, or “neobenshi” or “the new talkies” or “cinema cabaret.” This is a practice exemplified by the Japanese tradition of the benshi\, or live-narrator to silent films. He will discuss the many braids of this tradition moving off in different forms\, and demonstrate a live method of taking over modern films with the sound turned off using only language. \nMore information about Konrad Steiner is available here URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-konrad-steiner/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200227T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200227T173000 DTSTAMP:20260418T015934 CREATED:20200129T192800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200129T192800Z UID:10006833-1582824600-1582824600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Gretchen Primack DESCRIPTION:Gretchen Primack is a poet and educator living in New York’s Hudson Valley. She has taught and/or administrated with prison education programs (mostly college) since 2005. She’s the author of three poetry collections: Visiting Days (Willow Books)\, Kind (Post Traumatic Press)\, and Doris’ Red Spaces (Mayapple Press)\, and a chapbook\, The Slow Creaking of Planets (Finishing Line 2007). She co-wrote The Lucky Ones: My Passionate Fight for Farm Animals with Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary co-founder Jenny Brown (Penguin Avery 2012). Her poetry publication credits include The Paris Review\, Prairie Schooner\, Ploughshares\, FIELD\, Poet Lore\, The Massachusetts Review\, The Antioch Review\, New Orleans Review\, Rhino\, Tampa Review\, and many others journals and anthologies. \nMore information about Gretchen Primack is available here URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-gretchen-primack/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200220T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200220T173000 DTSTAMP:20260418T015934 CREATED:20200129T192518Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200129T192518Z UID:10006832-1582219800-1582219800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Jennifer Tseng DESCRIPTION:Poet and fiction writer Jennifer Tseng was born in Indiana and raised in California by a first generation Chinese engineer and a third generation German American microbiologist. Her flash fiction collection\, The Passion of Woo & Isolde (Rose Metal Press 2017)\, was a Firecracker Award finalist and winner of an Eric Hoffer Book Award; and her novel\, Mayumi and the Sea of Happiness (Europa Editions 2015)\, was shortlisted for the PEN American Center’s Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction and the New England Book Award; it’s available in English\, Italian\, and Danish. She’s also the author of three award-winning books of poetry\, The Man With My Face (AAWW 2005); the bilingual Red Flower\, White Flower (Marick Press 2013) featuring Chinese translations by Mengying Han and Aaron Crippen; and Not so dear Jenny (Bateau Press 2017)\, poems made with her Chinese father’s English letters. \nMore information about Jennifer Tseng is available here URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-jennifer-tseng/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200213T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200213T173000 DTSTAMP:20260418T015934 CREATED:20200129T191851Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200204T200600Z UID:10006830-1581615000-1581615000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Juan Martinez DESCRIPTION: URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-juan-martinez/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200206T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200206T190000 DTSTAMP:20260418T015934 CREATED:20200129T192231Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200204T200633Z UID:10006831-1581010200-1581015600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint DESCRIPTION:Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint was born in Yangon\, Myanmar and grew up in Bangkok\, Thailand and San José\, California. She is the author of the lyric novel The End of Peril\, the End of Enmity\, the End of Strife\, a Haven (Noemi Press\, 2018) and the family history project Zat Lun\, which won the 2018 Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and is forthcoming in early 2021. Her work has appeared in Black Warrior Review\, TriQuarterly\, and Kenyon Review Online\, among others\, and has been translated into Burmese and Lithuanian. She is the recipient of a Fulbright grant to Spain\, residencies at Hedgebrook and Millay Colony\, and fellowships from Tin House and Summer Literary Seminars. She holds a B.A. in literary arts from Brown University and an M.F.A. in prose from the University of Notre Dame. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in creative writing at the University of Denver\, the associate editor of the Denver Quarterly\, and an instructor at Lighthouse Writer’s Workshop. \nMore information about Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint is available here URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-thirii-myo-kyaw-myint/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200130T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200130T173000 DTSTAMP:20260418T015934 CREATED:20200129T191312Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200129T191312Z UID:10006829-1580405400-1580405400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Jess Arndt DESCRIPTION:Jess Arndt received her MFA at Bard and was a 2013 Graywolf SLS Fellow and 2010 Fiction Fellow at the New York Foundation of the Arts. She has written for Fence\, BOMB\, Aufgabe\, and the art journal Parkett\, among others. She is a co-founder of New Herring Press\, and lives in Los Angeles. \nMore information about Jess Arndt is available here URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-jess-arndt/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191204T191000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191204T203000 DTSTAMP:20260418T015934 CREATED:20190912T200018Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190913T175514Z UID:10006776-1575486600-1575491400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Student Readings DESCRIPTION:Students will be reading from their own work. \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-student-readings-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191121T191000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191121T210000 DTSTAMP:20260418T015934 CREATED:20190910T234038Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191219T204802Z UID:10006770-1574363400-1574370000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Peg Alford Pursell and Sophia Shalmiyev DESCRIPTION:Peg Alford Pursell is the author of A Girl Goes Into the Forest\, (Dzanc Books\, July 2019)\, and of Show Her A Flower\, A Bird\, A Shadow\, the 2017 Indies Book of the Year for Literary Fiction. Her work has been published in many journals and anthologies\, including Permafrost\, Joyland\, and the Los Angeles Review. Most recently\, her microfiction\, flash fiction\, and hybrid prose have been nominated for Best Small Microfictions and Pushcart Prizes. She is the founder and director of WTAW Press\, a nonprofit publisher of literary books\, and of Why There Are Words\, the national literary reading series. She is a member of the SF Writers Grotto. See more at: www.pegalfordpursell.com \n  \nSophia Shalmiyev is an immigrant from the Soviet Union and the author of Mother Winter (2019\, S&S)\, which Kirkus Reviews describes as “a rich tapestry of autobiography and meditations on feminism\, motherhood\, art\, and culture\, this book is as intellectually satisfying as it is artistically profound. A sharply intelligent\, lyrically provocative memoir.” Shalmiyev has an MFA from Portland State University and a second master’s degree in creative arts therapy from the School of Visual Arts. She lives in Portland with her two children. Her latest work can be found at Lit Hub and Guernica. \n  \nPresented with support from the Humanities Institute’s Body\, (Anti)Narrative\, and Corporeal Creative Practices Research Cluster URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-sophia-shalmiyev/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191114T191000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191114T203000 DTSTAMP:20260418T015934 CREATED:20190912T195712Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191112T195144Z UID:10006775-1573758600-1573763400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: "After Ursula" with Karen Joy Fowler\, Molly Gloss\, Nisi Shawl\, and Kim Stanley Robinson DESCRIPTION:After Ursula: Four renowned Sci Fi/Fantasy Writers all mentored by Ursula K Le Guin read from their work. \nMolly Gloss is the author of several novels including The Jump-Off Creek\, The Dazzle of Day\, Wild Life\, The Hearts of Horses and Falling From Horses\, as well as the story collection Unforeseen. She writes both realistic fiction and science fiction\, and her novels have received\, among other honors\, a PEN West Fiction Prize\, an Oregon Book Award\, two Pacific Northwest Booksellers Awards\, the James Tiptree\, Jr. Award\, and a Whiting Writers Award. \nKaren Joy Fowler is the author of six novels\, including Sarah Canary and The Jane Austen Book Club\, and three short story collections\, including What I Didn’t See. Her most recent novel We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves\, was published by Putnam in May 2013 and won the Pen Faulkner award that year. She currently lives in Santa Cruz. \nNisi Shawl wrote the 2016 Nebula finalist Everfair and the 2008 Tiptree Award-winning collection Filter House. In 2005 she co-wrote Writing the Other: A Practical Approach\, a standard text on inclusive representation in the imaginative genres. Her stories have appeared in Strange Horizons\, Asimov’s SF Magazine\, and many other publications. She edited the anthology New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color; and co-edited Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany; Strange Matings: Science Fiction\, Feminism\, African American Voices\, and Octavia E. Butler. Shawl is a Carl Brandon Society founder and a Clarion West board member. She lives in Seattle near an enticingly large lake. \nKim Stanley Robinson is an American science fiction writer. He is the author of more than twenty books\, including the international bestselling Mars trilogy\, and more recently Red Moon\, New York 2140\, Aurora\, Shaman\, Green Earth\, and 2312. He was sent to the Antarctic by the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Antarctic Artists and Writers’ Program in 1995\, and returned in their Antarctic media program in 2016. In 2008 he was named a “Hero of the Environment” by Time magazine. He works with the Sierra Nevada Research Institute\, the Clarion Writers’ Workshop\, and UC San Diego’s Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination. His work has been translated into 25 languages\, and won a dozen awards in five countries\, including the Hugo\, Nebula\, Locus\, and World Fantasy awards. In 2016 asteroid 72432 was named “Kimrobinson.” \n  \n\n  \nThis Living Writers event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute. \nPlease join us as we kick off the 20th anniversary of The Humanities Institute at our Open House Celebration on November 14th from 4-6pm. Raise a glass\, meet our fellows\, and connect with your community. In many ways\, The Humanities Institute is a demonstration of where the Humanities is headed and we are stronger when we do this work together. \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-after-ursula-karen-joy-fowler-molly-gloss-nisi-shawl-and-kim-stanley-robinson/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191010T191000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191010T203000 DTSTAMP:20260418T015934 CREATED:20190912T195151Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191010T172824Z UID:10006774-1570734600-1570739400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:CANCELLED Living Writers: Marcelo Hernandez Castillo DESCRIPTION:Marcelo Hernandez Castillo is a poet\, essayist\, translator\, and immigration advocate. He is the author of Cenzontle (BOA editions\, 2018)\, chosen by Brenda Shaughnessy as the winner of the 2017 A. Poulin Jr. prize and winner of the 2018 Northern California Book Award. Cenzontle maps a parallel between the landscape of the border and the landscape of sexuality through surreal and deeply imagistic poems. Castillo’s first chapbook\, Dulce (Northwestern University Press\, 2018)\, was chosen by Chris Abani\, Ed Roberson\, and Matthew Shenoda as the winner of the Drinking Gourd Poetry Prize. His memoir\, Children of the Land is forthcoming from Harper Collins in 2020 and explores the ideas of separation from deportation\, trauma\, and mobility between borders. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-marcelo-hernandez-castillo/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191003T191000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191003T203000 DTSTAMP:20260418T015934 CREATED:20190912T194956Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190912T194956Z UID:10006773-1570129800-1570134600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: R. Zamora Linmark DESCRIPTION:R. Zamora Linmark is the author of The Importance of Being Wilde at Heart\, his first novel for young adults from Delacorte/Random House. He has also published two novels\, Rolling the R’s (Kaya Press) which he’d adapted for the stage\, and Leche (Coffee House Press)\, as well as four poetry collections\, most recently\, Pop Vérité\, all from Hanging Loose Press. He divides his time between Honolulu\, Hawaii\, and Baguio\, Philippines. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-r-zamora-linmark/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190427T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190427T150000 DTSTAMP:20260418T015934 CREATED:20190220T230123Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190313T211756Z UID:10006717-1556373600-1556377200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Jody Greene: "Radical Learning - The Heart of the UC Santa Cruz Experience" DESCRIPTION:This event will review the bold and radical educational vision of UC Santa Cruz since its inception\, while introducing alumni to the innovative 21st-century approaches we are taking to ensure all students can thrive at UC Santa Cruz and leave with the tools to make change in society. We will emphasize the university’s history of active and activist pedagogy; its commitment to an education grounded in social justice; its ahead-of-the-times choice to have no grades and interdisciplinary departments; and its unique status as the only public research university in the country that was also founded as a kind of “alternative school.” The event will include prominent learning scientists as well as undergraduates working on projects related to improving student learning. Participants will give lightning talks on what it takes for students to be outstanding learners in our 21st-century university. \nMore info about Alumni Weekend: https://alumniweekend.ucsc.edu/ URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jody-greene-radical-learning-heart-uc-santa-cruz-experience/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190307T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190307T190000 DTSTAMP:20260418T015934 CREATED:20190111T195617Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190111T195617Z UID:10006694-1551979200-1551985200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Juan Felipe Herrera DESCRIPTION:Born on the migrant roads of Central California\, Juan Felipe grew up in the literary centers of the new Latinx Civil Rights Movement – San Diego\, Los Angeles and San Francisco. There he was inspired by bilingual and Aztec\, Mayan cultural roots\, as well as urban\, and multi-cultural and spoken word\, jazz styles on community performance stages. Also\, he has been a founder of various poetry\, jazz and afro-cuban percussion fusion ensembles\, and street theatre groups. Schools\, from UCLA\, Stanford to Iowa have been key to his thoughts on culture\, power and word. He delights in as many poetic traditions and experimental approaches as possible — children’s books\, experimental art-word fusions\, YA novels\, and performance —with the instant society in mind\, the audience-community. Awards have been many — NEA and Guggenheim Fellowships\, California Arts Council grants\, the LA Times Robert Kirsch Award\, the UCAL Chancellor;s Medal\, the National Book Critic Circle Award\, The Autry Spirit Award\, the Latino International Award and the Pura Belpré Honor Award\, among others. His most recent book\, Imagine\, a children’s book. “Every word is made of kindness\,” he says. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-juan-felipe-herrera-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/living-writers-banner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190207T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190207T190000 DTSTAMP:20260418T015934 CREATED:20190111T194612Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190111T194612Z UID:10006692-1549560000-1549566000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Steven Church DESCRIPTION:Steven Church is the author of six books of nonfiction\, most recently I’m Just Getting to the Disturbing Part: On Work\, Fear\, and Fatherhood\, and he edited the essay anthology\, The Spirit of Disruption: Selections from The Normal School. He’s a Founding Editor and the Nonfiction Editor for The Normal School: a Literary Magazine as well as the Series Editor for The Normal School Nonfiction Series from Outpost19. He’s the Coordinator of the MFA Program in Creative Writing. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-steven-church/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/living-writers-banner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190131T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190131T190000 DTSTAMP:20260418T015934 CREATED:20190111T194137Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190111T194137Z UID:10006691-1548955200-1548961200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Ronaldo V. Wilson DESCRIPTION:UCSC Professor Ronaldo V. Wilson is an award-winning writer\, artist and performer and co-founder of the critically lauded performance group Black Took Collective. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-ronaldo-v-wilson/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/living-writers-banner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190117T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190117T190000 DTSTAMP:20260418T015934 CREATED:20190107T220310Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190111T193337Z UID:10005554-1547745600-1547751600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Sina Grace DESCRIPTION:UCSC alum Sina Grace is the author and illustrator of the autobiographical Self-Obsessed and Not My Bag and the writer of Marvel’s Iceman comic series\, featuring the first out gay superhero. \nMore info: https://qz.com/1105347/the-middle-eastern-american-writer-behind-marvels-iceman-the-most-visible-gay-superhero-yet/ URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-sina-grace/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/living-writers-banner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190112 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190113 DTSTAMP:20260418T015934 CREATED:20181018T223912Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190211T213757Z UID:10006670-1547251200-1547337599@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Center for Public Philosophy: High School Regional Ethics Bowl DESCRIPTION:Teams of up to five high school students have the fall semester to develop their thinking on 15 real-world ethical questions (“cases”) put out in early September by the National High School Ethics Bowl organization. In the Winter\, each team participates at a regional tournament (“bowl”). The team that is deemed to have displayed the most clarity\, depth\, and open-mindedness in their thinking go on to represent our region at the National Bowl in the Spring (held at the University of North Carolina\, Chapel Hill). The Humanities Institute’s Center for Public Philosophy hosts the Northern California Regional Ethics Bowl at UC Santa Cruz. For more information visit: publicphilosophy.ucsc.edu/ethics-bowl \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nPublic Events: \nSemi-Final at 3:15pm \nFinal Round at 4:30pm \nHumanities Lecture Hall URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-public-philosophy-high-school-regional-ethics-bowl/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181129T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181129T185500 DTSTAMP:20260418T015934 CREATED:20181010T184019Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181010T184156Z UID:10006661-1543512000-1543517700@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Duy Doan & Angie Sijun Lou DESCRIPTION:Duy Doan is a Vietnamese American poet and the author of We Play a Game\, winner of the 2017 Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize. His work has appeared in Poetry\, Poetry Northwest\, Slate\, and TriQuarterly. A Kundiman fellow\, he received an MFA in poetry from Boston University\, where he later served as director of the Favorite Poem Project. Doan has taught at Boston University\, Lesley University\, and the Boston Conservatory. He was born in Dallas\, Texas. \n  \nAngie Sijun Lou is from Seattle. Her work has appeared in the American Poetry Review\, Ninth Letter\, Hyphen\, The Margins\, Nat. Brut\, and others. She is the winner of the 2018 Cosmonauts Avenue Fiction Prize and has received fellowships and awards from the Academy of American Poets and Kundiman. She is pursuing a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of California Santa Cruz. \n  \nLiving Writers Series Fall 2018: “Sentence & Sentience: Forms” \nThis series features seven contemporary poets\, critics\, and artists who each render\, albeit in differing forms and across a diversity of experiences\, the unit of the sentence for powerfully sentient effects. Whether through poetic argument\, the fictive line\, or the scholarly imagination\, each of these authors explore questions of race\, gender\, sexuality\, nature\, and nation in their respective practices and forms. \n*Note: All Readings\, except for the Morton Marcus Reading\, featuring Gary Snyder\, will take place from 5:20-6:55 in the Humanities Lecture Hall on the dates listed below.  The Gary Snyder Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading will be held in the Music Recital Hall on November 15th from 6-8:00 PM. \n  \nAll events are free and open to the public. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-duy-doan-angie-sijun-lou/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingWritersFtSize.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181011T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181011T185500 DTSTAMP:20260418T015934 CREATED:20181010T174022Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181010T184435Z UID:10006659-1539278400-1539284100@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Samiya Bashir DESCRIPTION:Samiya Bashir is the author of three books of poetry: Field Theories\, and Gospel\, and Where the Apple Falls. Sometimes she makes poems of dirt. Sometimes zeros and ones. Sometimes variously rendered text. Sometimes light. Her work has been widely published\, performed\, installed\, printed\, screened\, and experienced. Bashir holds a BA from the University of California\, Berkeley\, where she served as Poet Laureate\, and an MFA from the University of Michigan\, where she received two Hopwood Poetry Awards. Bashir lives in Portland\, Oregon where she teaches at Reed College. \n  \nAbout Living Writers\, Fall 2018: “Sentence & Sentience: Forms” \nThis series features seven contemporary poets\, critics\, and artists who each render\, albeit in differing forms and across a diversity of experiences\, the unit of the sentence for powerfully sentient effects. Whether through poetic argument\, the fictive line\, or the scholarly imagination\, each of these authors explore questions of race\, gender\, sexuality\, nature\, and nation in their respective practices and forms. \n*Note: All Readings\, except for the Morton Marcus Reading\, featuring Gary Snyder\, will take place from 5:20-6:55 in the Humanities Lecture Hall on the dates listed below.  The Gary Snyder Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading will be held in the Music Recital Hall on November 15th from 6-8:00 PM. \n  \nAll events are free and open to the public. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-samiya-bashir/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingWritersFtSize.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR