Keith Waldrop and Rosmarie Waldrop

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

7:00 p.m.

Visual Arts Performance Space

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.

Les Figues Press

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

4:30 p.m.

Visual Arts Performance Space

 

Les Figues Press, co-directed by Vanessa Place and Teresa Carmody, supports work that challenges current perceptions of culture, beauty and belief by creating a space where conversations between artists and readers can evolve, through forms of storytelling, visual art, and critical essay. Vanessa Place is most recently the author of the post-conceptual novel La Medusa (FC2) and, with Robert Fitterman, Notes on Conceptualisms (Ugly Duckling). Teresa Carmody is the author of Your Spiritual Suit of Armor by Katherine Anne (Woodland Editions). Christine Wertheim is a poet, critic, performer and curator, and the author of  +|’me’S-pace (Les Figues), a book of poetics.

Laila Lalami

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

4:30 p.m.

Visual Arts Performance Space

 

Laila Lalami was born and raised in Rabat, Morocco. She received a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Southern California. Her first collection of stories, Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, was released in 2005 and has been translated into six languages. Her new novel, Secret Son, was released this year and has already received various praise as being ‘a brilliant story,’ ‘magnificently told,’ ‘brimming with insight into the complexities of life in contemporary Morocco.’ She has been the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, and was selected by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader in 2009. She is currently Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside.

Karen Joy Fowler

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

For further information about these events, please contact Lorraine Graham or Nikolai Beope at klorraine@gmail.com or nbeope@ucsd.edu.

Eileen Myles

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

7:00 p.m.

Visual Arts Performance Space

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

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