Hugh C. Hyde Living Writers Series The Department of English & Comparative Literature MFA Program | literature.sdsu.edu san diego state university New! Read the cool history of the Living Writers Series at SDSU The Hugh C. Hyde Living Writers Series Spring schedule begins in February with a major event.  Maxine Hong Kingston, a major voice in contemporary literature,  will speak on Tuesday, February 21st at 7:00 pm in Hardy Tower 140.  The event is free and open to the public.  Kingston's works, China Men and The Warrior Woman, A Girlhood Among Ghosts have achieved great acclaim and solidified Kingston's place in American letters, as well as garnered her a loyal following.  This event is made possible by the Laurie Okuma Memorial Fund which was established to honor a beloved teacher, friend, and colleague. WEDNESDAY || FEBRUARY 16, 2005 The Hugh C. Hyde Living  Writers Series for Fall 2002   Thursday, September. 19 at 7:00pm Author Allan Gurganus   Thursday, Sept. 26 Poet Jan Lee Ande Jan Lee Ande earned her doctorate in history of consciousness, an interdisciplinary program in the humanities and social sciences, from Union Graduate School in 1996. Her research focuses on the poetics of emergent paradigms--the cultural convergences and individuals who contribute to new systems of meaning. She lives in La Jolla, California, and since 1993 has taught poetry, ecopoetics, and history of religions at Union Institute & University. an Lee Ande's book Instructions for Walking on Water won the 2000 Snyder Prize and was published in 2001 by Ashland Poetry Press. Among the journals that have published her poetry are New Letters, Image, Notre Dame Review, Mississippi Review, Poetry International, and Nimrod--for which she was a Pablo Neruda Prize finalist.  Ande is at work on a manuscript titled Pigs & Fishes Praise for Instructions for Walking on Water: Jan Ande's well-crafted poems are like a fresh mountain stream that springs from ancient sources. They are animated by a deep reverence for the world, by a sense of mystic awe, by a feeling of transcendental plenitude. They put us in the presence of great mysteries. Edward Hirsch-      Instructions for Walking on Water is an illuminated manuscript that gives radiance to even the most humble insect. The narrator of these poems is capable of sacred play.... George Santayana said a sense of humor is a sense of proportion, and with Jan Ande's poems spiritual wisdom is celebrated exuberantly to the accompaniment of laughter's chorale. Sandra Alcosser-    Jan Lee Ande gives us poems lush with "the sloe swarthiness of raven and crow." She pays reverent attention to "all creatures tumbling under the canopy of clouds." Her spirit-masters are Hildegarde of Bingen, Whitman, Lorca, Rilke, but her voice is vibrantly her own. Ande is a wonder-worker, and her book pure magic, poems that discover glory in the community swimming pool, heaven and Nirvana blossoming here, right before our eyes. David Citino-  Monday, Oct. 7 A Literary Salon featuring writer Cecile Pineda   Wednesday, Oct. 9 Poet Jose Kozer   Tuesday,  Oct. 29 The Laurie Okuma Memorial Reading Poet PriscillaLee Nov. 5, 6, 7 or 12, 13, 14 Novelist Debra Magpie Earling   Tuesday, Nov. 19 Reading and Reception for authors and translators of Junction Press' Bilingual Poetry Anthology, Acrossthe Line:  The Poetry of Baja California   Dec. TBA MFA Graduate Student Readings All events are held at San Diego State University in the Malcolm A. Love Library Room 2203 (unless indicated otherwise) and are free and open to the public.   The Hugh C. Hyde Living Writers Series is supported by the Hugh C. Hyde Living Writers Endowment and the Laurie Okuma Matsueda Memorial Fund. For more information, call 619-594-5318   SPRING 2002 EVENTS Tuesday February 12, 2002 7pm Room 2203 Love Library CLAYTON ESHLEMAN HOSTS: The Hugh C. Hyde Living Writers Series, The SDSU Department of English & Comparative Literature, and the Malcolm A. Love Library; for more info call 619.594.5318. Spring 2001 Readings    Fall 2000 Readings     October 17  Tuesday Ken Waldman Scripps Cottage, 7:00pm October 19  Thursday Laure Matsuedo Okuma Memorial Cecile Pineda Scripps Cottage, 7:00pm   Tuesday November 7 Glover Davis Scripps Cottage, 7:00pm Friday November 17 Lidia Yuknavitch Lance Olsen Scripps Cottage. 7:00pm     Thursday December 14 MFA 2nd Year Reading Scripps Cottage, 7:00pm   The Hugh C. Hyde Writers Series is supported by the Hugh C. Hyde Living Writers Endowment, the Laurie Okuma Memorial, and IRA funding. All events take place on the SDSU campus and are free and open to the public. For more information please call: (619) 594-5318. PAST READINGS   Spring 2000 Michelle Serros Friday, May 19, 2000 Scripps Cottage, 7pm         Past Events Spring 1999 David Mura Tuesday, February 2, 7 PM, Back Door David Mura is a poet, creative non-fiction writer, critic, playwright and performance artist. A Sansei, or third generation Japanese American, Mura is the author of Turning Japanese: Memoirs of a Sansei, which won a 1991 Josephine Miles Book Award from the Oakland PEN. Mura's new memoir, Where the Body Meets Memory: An Odyssey of Race, Sexuality and Identity was published in 1996. Mura's most recent book of poetry is The Colors of Desire, which won the Carl Sandburg Literary Award. Mura is the Artistic Director of the Asian American Renaissance, an Asian American arts organization. Carol Muske Friday, February 5, 7 PM, Scripps Cottage Carol Muske is a poet, critic and novelist. Her latest collection of poems is An Octave Above Thunder: New and Selected Poems. She is an author of sixbooks of poetry, two novels, as well as a collection of essays Women and Poetry: Truth, Autobiography and the Shape of the Self. Muske teaches Creative Writing at the University of Southern California. Annual MFA Alumni Reading Tuesday, February 9, 7 PM, North Education 60 Sherod Santos and Susan Luzzaro Sherod Santos is the author of a new collection entitled The Pilot Star Elegies: Poems, as well as The City of Women: A Sequence of Poems and Prose. He was awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation and the Pushcart Prize Committee. He has also published his work in The New Yorker, The Nation, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, The Paris Review, and The Virginia Quarterly Review. He is a professor of English at the University of Missouri at Columbia. Susan Luzzaro is the author of The Flesh Envelope, her first volume of poems. She was awarded the Los Angeles Arts Council Award, the AWP Intro Award, and a Broadleaf Scholarship. Her poems have been published in The American Poetry Review, Iowa Review and Puerto Del Sol, and in a chapbook,Complicity. She teaches English at Southwestern Community College. Both Santos and Luzzaro graduated from SDSU with Masters Degrees inWriting. The Laurie Matsueda Okuma Memorial Reading Friday, March 26, 7 PM, Scripps Cottage Mitsuye Yamada Mitsuye Yamada is a poet, educator, and founder of Multicultural Women Writers of Orange County. She is the author of Camp Notes and Other Poems, which chronicles her and her family's incarceration in a relocation camp. Her latest volume, Desert Run: Poems and Stories, returns to the unforgettable experience of the internment camp. Jill Ciment Tuesday, April 6, 7 PM, Casa Real Jill Ciment is the author of Small Claims, a collection of short stories, a memoir Half a Life, and two novels The Law of Falling Bodies and Teeth of the Dog. She has received several grants including one from the National Endowment for the Arts. She currently teaches at Columbia University and the New School for Social Research. Harold Jaffe Tuesday, April 13, 7 PM, Back Door Harold Jaffe, Professor of English at SDSU, is the author of many works including his most recent collection of stories, Sex for the Millennium, as well as Straight Razor, Eros Anti-Eros, and Beasts. Jaffe is Editor inChief of Fiction International. Writers in Exile Dr. Martin Tucker and Persis Karim Tuesday, April 27, 7 PM, Casa Real Martin Tucker edits Confrontation Magazine and serves as a delegate for the PEN America International Center. His book of poetry, Attention Spans, was published in 1997. In 1991 he published Literary Exiles in theTwentieth Century. Persis Karim's poetry appears in A World Between: Poems, Stories and Essays by Iranian-Americans which she co-edited. Karim teaches at UC SantaCruz. Karen Brennan Tuesday, May 4, 7 PM, Casa Real Karen Brennan is the author of Wild Desire, winner of 1990 AWP Award for Short Fiction. Her most recent collection of poems, Here on Earth, was published in 1988. Brennan teaches at the University of Utah. MFA Graduate Reading Series May 14, 18, and 21, 7 PM (Location and Specifics TBA)   All events take place on the San Diego State University campus and are free and open to the public. For more information contact : The Hugh C. Hyde Living Writers Series (619) 594-5318 SDSU MFA HOME The Department of English & Comparative Literature |  San Diego State University MC 8140 | 5500 Campanile Drive | San Diego, CA 92182-8140 | 4158 Adams Humanities | Office Hours: 8:00 am to 4:30 pm  | Phone: (619) 594-5443 | Fax: (619) 594-4998 | EandCL@mail.sdsu.edu The Hugh C. Hyde Living Writers Series is supported by the Hugh C. Hyde Living Writers Endowment, the Laurie Okuma Memorial Fund, and IRA funding.