Keith
Waldrop and
Rosmarie Waldrop
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
7:00 p.m.
Rosmarie Waldrop is a prolific writer, translator and publisher. She is the author of more than three dozen books of poetry, fiction, and criticism, most recently her trilogy Curves to the Apple: The Reproduction of Profiles, Lawn of Excluded Middle, & Reluctant Gravities. With her husband Keith Waldrop, she edits Burning Deck Press, one of the most influential publishers of innovative writing in the United States. Waldrop has received numerous awards and fellowships, including a PEN Award for Poetry in Translation in 2008. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2006, and was made a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government.
Keith Waldrop is a
prominent poet, translator, and publisher. He teaches at Brown
University, and has served as co-editor of Burning Deck Press, with his
wife Rosmarie Waldrop, since 1968. He is the author of numerous
collections of poetry, most recently Several Gravities (Siglio,
2009), a collection of collages. Waldrop received an award from the Fund
for Poetry, as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the
Arts and the Berlin Artists Program of the DAAD. In 2000, he received a
Medal from the French government with rank of Chevalier in the Order of
Arts and Letters.
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009 4:30 p.m.
Les Figues Press,
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009 4:30 p.m.
Laila Lalami
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November 18, 2009 4:30 p.m. Visual Arts Performance Space No contemporary writer creates characters more appealing, or examines them with greater acuity and forgiveness, than she does. - Michael Chabon, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Karen Joy Fowler is the author of four earlier novels and two short story collections. The Jane Austen Book Club spent thirteen weeks on the New York Times bestsellers list and was a New York Times Notable Book. Fowler’s previous novel, Sister Noon, was a finalist for the 2001 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction. Her debut novel, Sarah Canary, was a New York Times Notable Book, as was her second novel, The Sweetheart Season. In addition, Sarah Canary won the Commonwealth medal for best first novel by a Californian, and was short-listed for the Irish Times International Fiction Prize as well as the Bay Area Book Reviewers Prize. Fowler’s short story collection Black Glass won the World Fantasy Award in 1999. Fowler and her husband, who have two grown children, live in Davis and Santa Cruz, California. What strikes one first is the voice: robust, sly, witty, elegant, unexpected and never boring. Here is a novelist who absolutely comprehends the pleasures of imagination and transformation. - Margot Livesey, The New York Times Book Review An astonishing narrative voice, at once lyric and ironic, satiric and nostalgic…Fowler can tell stories that engage and enchant. - San Francisco Chronicle |
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Tuesday, December 1, 2009 7:00 p.m. Eileen Myles is a
poet, playwright and performance artist. Her books include Skies &
(2001), Cool for You (2000) Her plays include Joan of Arc: a spiritual
entertainment, & Patriarchy. She is a frequent contributor to Art in
America, The Village Voice, The Nation and other periodicals, and is
Professor Emeritus of Writing at UCSD. This event is part of the
Visiting Artists Lecture Series, hosted by the Department of Visual
Arts.
For further information about this event, please contact Susan Wright, Coordinator for the Visiting Artists Lecture Series, Department of Visual Arts |
