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.

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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

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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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Poetry Reading on April 19th featuring the amazing:

Kay Ryan

Li Young Lee

More information about Border Voices is available at: bordervoices.com

To All M.F.A. Students:

Professor Joanne Meschery
and the Hyde Living Writers Series

Present a Salon with Literary Agent
B.J. Robbins
on Friday, January 25th
from 2:30pm to 4:30pm
in AL 266

Since 1992, Robbins has run her own literary agency in Los Angeles where she represents a wide range of fiction and nonfiction authors. She is a veteran of the publishing industry, having started in the publicity department of Simon & Schuster before moving to Harcourt Brace, where she directed the marketing department and became a senior editor. She serves on the board of PEN Center USA West and is a frequent participant at the SDSU Writers' Conference.

The MFA Program Open House
Wednesday, November 14, 2007 1:00p.m.-3:00p.m. in Arts & Letters 132

Light refreshments and drinks provided

You are invited to attend The MFA Program Open House, an opportunity to profile our unique, growing program. Sandra Alcosser, Program Director and award-winning writer, will be there in-person for an open exchange about the program. Learn about faculty, alumni, coursework, funding and our community. Also, some of our students will be on hand to share their personal experiences with you.

RSVP by sending an email to EandCL@mail.sdsu.edu with the words MFA OPEN HOUSE RSVP in the subject line. Please provide your name, phone number, and email address in the body of the email.

For those who are interested in applying for the 2008-2009 academic year, the deadline is February 1, 2008.