|
The New Writing Series Podcasts are now available via Quicktime, RSS Podcast and iTunes thanks to the Mandeville Special Collections Library. |
 |
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. |
 |
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.) |
 |
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. |
 |
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. |
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.
New
Writing Series: Camille F. ForbesWednesday, May 14, 2008
4:30pm - 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.
| Anyone needing special arrangements to accommodate a disability is encouraged to contact the Literature Department (858) 534-4618 or litinfo@ucsd.edu two weeks in advance. |
