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Please join us in celebrating 20 years of San Diego State University's MFA in Creative Writing! Festivities will take place at SDSU and Balboa Park during the weekend of November 12-14, 2009.
 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Thursday, November 12th @ 7PM
Our celebration commences in SDSU's Love Library, room 430, with the Laurie Okuma Memorial Reading. Michael Okuma will speak about Laurie and the series he endowed for women in her memory. Alum Ella deCastro Baron will read from her debut book, Itchy, Brown Girl Seeks Employment. http://www.sdcitybookfair.com/authors/73-ella-decastro-baron.html
Friday, November 13 th @ 7PM
SDSU MFA Graduate Matt de la Pena returns to San Diego to show clips from the upcoming film based on his first novel, Ball Don't Lie, discuss his road to publishing, and read from a new novel, We Were Here, in the Arts and Letters Building, new home of the MFA. Showing in AL 201. Dinner gathering to follow at Pomegranate Russian-Georgian Restaurant (2302 El Cajon Blvd.). http://www.mattdelapena.com/
Saturday, November 14th @ 1:15-4:30 PM
MFA Students, Alumni and Faculty will gather in Balboa Park for a festival of reading and greeting at the San Diego Museum of Art from 1:15-4:30 p.m. Each writer is invited to share five minutes of poetry, prose, music, stories, news in Gallery 16. Interim periods of reflection and play encouraged. Festivities continue at The Ink Spot (home of San Diego Writers, Ink) at 6:30 p.m. with refreshments and book browsing, followed by readings at 7 pm. Dinner outing to follow, details TBA.
Please direct RSVP, questions, and exclamations to our email portal sdsu.mfa20th@yahoo.com
Acclaimed author Diane Ackerman discusses her book The Zookeeper's Wife -- a tale of war and compassion.
Presented by KPBS & The San Diego Public Library April 20, 2009 at 6 p.m.
 Environmental Literature Panel Discussion with Diane Ackerman
San Diego State University,
5500 Campanile Dr.,
SD CA 92182
Hardy Tower, room 140 (seats 234)
Panelists include Diane Ackerman and Environmental literature scholars:
Dr. William Nericcio (SDSU)
Dr. Donald Wesling (UCSD)
Dr. Pasquale Verdicchio (UCSD)
Moderated by KPBS' Environmental reporter Ed Joyce.
For more information, please visit http://www.kpbs.org/onebook
April 21 at 11 a.m.
Lecture and Q&A with Diane Ackerman
San Diego City College, Saville Theatre (seats 350)
1312 Park Blvd.
San Diego, CA 92101
April 21 at 7 p.m.
Lecture, Q&A and Book Signing with Diane Ackerman
Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center
Garfield Theater
4126 Executive Dr.,
La Jolla, CA 92037
Reading by Mo'olelo Performing Arts Company Free and Open to the Public - (Seating on a first come basis)
November 18, 2008
Jane Hirshfield,
nationally acclaimed poet,
reads at SDSU.
Living Writers Series
 An Evening for Joanne Meschery
Saturday, May 17, 2008
at SDSU Faculty & Staff Center
Join us in wishing Joanne Meschery,
professor of Fiction and Creative Writing,
a fond farewell.
Please RSVP by May 15 with
Taylur Nguyen (writetaylur@yahoo.com)
Cost is $20 perperson and includes a buffet dinner.
More details (pdf)
Friday, April 25, 7 PM
SDSU Writer's Collective
Scripps Cottage
The SDSU Writer's Collective proudly invites you to attend its inaugural student reading.
Dirty Laundry: A Public Airing will feature ten of our own talented writers from the SDSU MFA Program in Creative Writing. Confessionals to be served with light refreshments.
Saturday, April 26, 7 PM
Fred Moramarco Reading Series
Scripps Cottage
Poetry International kicks off its 1st Fred Moramarco Reading Series with a launch party for Issue 12: African Women Poets and A Chapbook by Li-Young Lee. The evening will feature a reading by PI's Founding Editor, Fred Moramarco and our staff, who will read poems from Issue 12. Learn more about PI.
 Wednesday, April 30, 6:30 PM -- MFA Creative Writing Graduate Reading
Scripps Cottage
Twelve graduates from our MFA Creative Writing program come together to share their work in this intimate evening. Hear their voices and support their writing by purchasing the chapbooks published by Pacific Review and Poetry International. Chapbooks are $3 each.
Graduates in poetry and fiction:
Veronica Andrew, Trevor Auser, Mike Cole, Billy Hughes, Matthew Irwin, Heather G. James, Joseph Kane, Jenny Minniti-Shippey, Taylur Thu Hien Ngo, Carolyn Selman, Martin Woodside, Fiona Lewis
View flyer for this event (.pdf)
Friday, May 9, 7 PM -- Poetry Club Reading
Scripps Cottage
The Poetry Club at SDSU is hosting a reading of local (San Diego)
university writers at Scripps Cottage, Friday, May 9th. Participants will
include poets and fiction writers from Cal State San Marcos, UCSD, USD,
Grossmont College, San Diego City College, and SDSU.
 The Living Writers Series at SDSU is one of the longest continuously running series in the nation.
Authors who have visited us in the recent years included: Edward Albee, Derek Walcott, Billy Collins, Philip Levine, Norman Rush, Alice Fulton, Gary Snyder, Carol Muske, Nahid Rachlin, Tess Gallagher, Dorianne Laux, Judy Grahn, Toi Dericotte, C.K. Williams, Rick Bass, David Mura, Clayton Eshleman, Jerome Rothenberg, Debra Magpie Earling, Wanda Coleman, Alicia Ostriker, Al Yong, Alan Gurganus, and Maxine Hong Kingston.
Also, our alumni, such as award-winning authors Sherod Santos, Richard Katrovas, Susan Luzzaro, Diana Garcia, Susan Vreeland, and others have participated in these events as well. Numerous publishers, such as Ted Pelton of Starcherone Books, Mathew Zapruder of Wave Books, Kate Gale of Red Hen Press and others also participate in our annual panels on publishing.
Hugh C. Hyde Living Writers Series, Spring 2008
Tuesday, March 4th:
Poet Margo Berdeshevsky's debut collection, But a Passage in Wilderness, has been hailed by Marilyn Hacker as exhibiting a great beauty and immediacy.
Wednesday, March 12th:
Poet Peter Pereira's new collection is What's Written on the Body. He is an award-winning poet who is also a family physician in Seattle and was founding editor of Floating Bridge Press.
Tuesday, March 18th:
Former executive director of The Academy of American Poets, award-winning poet Henri Cole's recent collection is Blackbird and Wolf.
Wednesday, March 26th:
Emeritus professor at San Diego State University Mary Duncan will discuss her new nonfiction book, Henry Miller is Under My Bed.
Wednesday, April 9th:
SDSU Professor and Filmmaker Mark Freeman will present a showing of his documentary, Poetry Live(s), featuring San Diego poets. Poets from the film and the filmmaker will also discuss their work.
Thursday, April 17th:
The Laurie Okuma Memorial Reading presents poet, Sandra Lim, whose collection, Loveliest Grotesque, was chosen for the Kore Press First Book Award Winner in 2006.
All events are free and open to the public.
Please invite your friends, colleagues, family, students, poetry and fiction lovers.
For more information contact Victoria Featherstone at livingwriters@gmail.com
Note: All events will be held in SDSU's Love Library, Room 2230, with the exception of
Mark Freeman's Poetry Live(s) event which will be held in the library, Room 430.
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