Lectures

Hugh C. Hyde Living Writers Series

The Living Writers Series began at San Diego State University over twenty-five years ago, and thus has achieved recognition as one of the longest continuously running reading series in the nation. Shortly before the new millennium, Mr. Hugh C. Hyde generously endowed the reading series, thereby ensuring the continuance of its mission.

Through the years, the Series has brought to San Diego prominent and emerging poets and writers for readings, workshops, salon discussions, and classroom lectures such as Nobel-laureate Derek Walcott and other acclaimed writers including Tillie Olsen, Philip Levine, Gary Snyder, Luis Alfaro, and Wanda Coleman. Each semester, the Laurie Okuma Memorial Reading features women of color writers including Mitsuye Yamada and Karen Tei Yamashita.

Our events are free and open to the public. Evening readings usually take place at 7pm in Love Library 430. For more information and to join our mailing list, please contact Meagan Marshall at marshall_Meagan@yahoo.com or "like" us on Facebook.

Spring 2012

CORIE SKOLNICK: Monday, February 6th at 7 p.m. in Love Library, Room 430

LAUREL CORONA: Monday, February 20th at 7 p.m. in Love Library, Room 430

THE LAURIE OKUMA MEMORIAL READING, FEATURING: MINDY ZHANG: Monday, March 5th at 7 p.m. in Love Library, Room 430

DAVID MATLIN: Wednesday, March 14th at 7 p.m. in Love Library, Room 430

SPOTLIGHT: SMALL PRESS PUBLISHING, FEATURING: CHRIS BARON, TONY BONDS, ELIZABETH MYHR, & MARTIN WOODSIDE: Monday, March 19th, Panel Discussion at 4 pm, Reading at 7 p.m. in Love Library, Room 430

THOMAS LUX: Monday, April 9th at 7 p.m. in Scripps Cottage

GARTH GREENWELL & ANUSHKA RAVISHANKAR: Monday, April 16th at 7 p.m. in Love Library, Room 430

ERIC GOODMAN: Monday, April 23rd at 7 p.m. in Love Library, Room 430

For more information, please visit http://mfa.sdsu.edu/events.htm

Poet Michael Collier to Read at SDSU!

Thursday, Nov 10, 7pm, Love Library Rm 430

Michael Collier is the author of five books of poetry, a translation of Euripedes' Medea, and has edited three anthologies of poetry, including the acclaimed The Wesleyan Tradition: Four Decades of American Poetry (1993) and The New American Poets: A Bread Loaf Anthology (2000). From 2001 to 2004 he was the Poet Laureate of Maryland. He is the director of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the oldest literary conference in the United States, and a professor of creative writing at the University of Maryland, College Park. He was a finalist for both National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and has received numerous awards for his poetry, including fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He is the Advisory Board member of Poetry International.

Kate Bernheimer will be our first Fairy-Tale Author-in-Residence at SDSU, on Nov. 14-15.

Kate Bernheimer has published novels, stories, children's books, and essays on fairy tales, and has edited three influential fairy-tale anthologies. Her most recent book is Horse, Flower, Bird, "a collection readers won't soon forget, one that redefines the fairy tale into something wholly original" (Booklist). She is the author novels trilogy about three sisters—The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold, The Complete Tales of Merry Gold, and The Complete Tales of Lucy Gold—about which Katrhyn Davis wrote"it is Kate Bernheimer's formidable act of sorcery to take the fairy tale--that most ancient of forms--and turn it into something so brand-new under the sun" (FC2). Her children's book, The Girl in The Castle inside The Museum (Random House/Schwartz & Wade Books), was named one of the Best Books of 2008 by Publishers Weekly. Forthcoming children's books include The Lonely Book, and The Girl Who Wouldn't Brush Her Hair (both Random House/Schwartz & Wade Books). She has published work in many distinguished literary journals, including Tin House, Western Humanities Review, Poetry International, and The Massachusetts Review. Her influential anthologies include My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales (Penguin), Mirror, Mirror on The Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales (Anchor/Vintage), and Brothers and Beasts: An Anthology of Men on Fairy Tales (Wayne State University Press). In 2005, she founded, and currently remains editor of, Fairy Tale Review, the leading literary journal dedicated to fairy tales as a contemporary art form.

More information is available at: http://www.katebernheimer.com/

Monday, Nov. 14

• 2pm-3.15pm Creative Writing Workshop, Student Services West 2512
• 7pm: Fiction Reading at the Love Library, room LL430

Tuesday, Nov. 15

• 3.30pm-4.30pm: Talk on Fairytales at the Love Library, room LL 430

Kate's visit is co-sponsored by Children's Literature Center, Poetry International, Poetry Translation Club, CASE, SDSU Library, Associated Students, Poets & Writers Magazine and the English Department at SDSU.