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Tisa Bryant
Monday, April 14, 2008
4:30 p.m. - UCSD
Visual Arts Performance Space
Writer, poet, and radical cineaste, Tisa Bryant’s work often traverses
the boundaries of genre, culture and history, splicing, juxtaposing and
threading seemingly disparate elements from personal history, film, and
observations as a global citizen, into multi-layered texts that demand
new forms. Her first book, Unexplained Presence (Leon Works, 2007), is a
collection of original, hybrid essays that remix narratives from
Eurocentric film, literature and visual arts and zoom in on the black
presences operating within them. She is a founding editor/publisher of
the hardcover annual, The Encyclopedia Project and teaches writing at
St. John’s University, Queens, NY. |

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Marjorie Welish
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
4:30 p.m. - UCSD
Visual Arts Performance Space
Recipient of the Judith E. Wilson Fellowship, the Howard Foundation
Fellowship, and other prestigious awards for poetry, Marjorie Welish is
also a highly respected painter and art critic. Her new book of poems is
Isle of the Signatories; Word Group is another recent work. A
day-long conference on her art, poetry and art criticism occurred at the
University of Pennsylvania in 2002, which produced a 300-page book,
Of the Diagram: The Work of Marjorie Welish (Slought, 2003.) |
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Leslie Scalapino
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
4:30 p.m. - UCSD
Visual Arts Performance Space
Leslie Scalapino is the author of thirty books of poetry, fiction,
criticism, and plays. Fiction includes Defoe, poetry includes Zither &
Autobiography, and Day Ocean State of Stars' Night. Her selected poems,
It's go in horizontal, has just been published by
UC Press, Berkeley. |

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Antoine Wilson
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
4:30 p.m. - UCSD
Visual Arts Performance Space
Antoine Wilson is the author of the novel
The Interloper. His work has appeared in The Paris Review, Story
Quarterly, and Best New American Voices, among other
publications, and he is a contributing editor of A Public Space.
A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and recipient of a Carol Houck
Smith Fiction Fellowship from the University of Wisconsin, he lives and
surfs in Los Angeles. |
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Kamau Daaood
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
4:30 p.m.
UCSD Visual Arts Facility
Kamau Daaood is the author of critically acclaimed
The Language of
Saxophones: Selected Poems of Kamau Daaood, City lights Publishers and
the award winning CD
Leimert Park, M.A.M.A. Records, He co-founded
The
World Stage Performance Gallery in Los Angeles, a non-profit arts
organization in 1989. His career as a poet began as a young member of
the Watts Writers Workshop and the Pan African Peoples Arkestra in the
late 1960s He has spent over thirty-five years performing, curating,
teaching, producing, coordinating, organizing and creating art in
schools, churches, prisons, storefronts, arts venues, libraries,
festivals, conferences, radio, television, museums, and galleries
locally, nationally, and internationally. He is a native of Los Angeles.
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New
Writing Series: Camille F. Forbes
Wednesday, May 14, 20084:30pm - Visual Arts Facility
Performing Space
Camille F. Forbes, historian and performer, is the author of
Introducing Bert Williams: Burnt Cork, Broadway, and the Story of
America’s First Black Star (Basic Civitas, 2008). Her life in
performance has taken her from stand-up comedy acts in Boston to her
ever-evolving one-woman stage piece,
Tales of Suburban Squalor,
in San Diego. She is currently an assistant professor in the
Department
of Literature at the University of California, San Diego.
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