Events
Current Events
The Laurie Okuma Memorial Reading, Featuring:
MINDY ZHANG
Monday, March 5th at 7 p.m. in Love Library, Room 430
*You are beaming as before, with a smile barely perceptible
and jealousy tucked into the pleats of your dress or into your dewlaps.
You do not toy with the trick of “-isms,” and yet
you are still the born killer, leaving me terminally unrecoverable.
From, “Sappho’s Lover”
DAVID MATLIN
Celebrates the release of his new novel, A HalfMan Dreaming
Wednesday, March 14th at 7 p.m. in Love Library, Room 430
*Praise for A HalfMan Dreaming, from Ilya Kaminsky: "In this work of luminous prose, terrifying and gorgeous, David Matlin has found a new form for a narrative, and has given that form the tale of empathy, sensuality, and great depth." For more information, visit: matlinwriter.com
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
*There is something democratic
about that, grown-up; a long
and slender walking stick set against the house.
From, “Virgule”
GARTH GREENWELL
Monday, April 16th at 7 p.m. in Love Library, Room 430
*Garth Greenwell, on teaching: “the very process of education
is the process by which we learn to seek the world’s sweetnesses—
sweetest among them Eros—which are at once so intoxicating and
so quickly ground out.”
ERIC GOODMAN
Monday, April 23rd at 7 p.m. in Love Library, Room 430
*Eric Goodman is a novelist, rock lyricist, travel writer, journalist,
and tv writer. By day, Eric is a Professor of English and directs the
creative writing program at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
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Past Events
Poetry International's Issue 17 Launch Party
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Time 7:00pm until 9:00pm
The Ink Spot
710
13th St, Studio 210
San Diego, CA 92101
Poetry International invites you to come and celebrate the launch of our newest journal, Issue 17 on Sunday, December 11th. Contributors, advisory board members, and editorial staff will read from the newest issue, which contains features on Caribbean and Romanian poetry,poetry and the natural world, as well as portfolios by Steve Scafidi, M.A. Vizsolyi, Carol Frost, Malena Mörling, William Heyen, and more! Feel free to bring cheese, wine, and other snacks for this holiday affair. We hope to see you there! This event is free and open to the public, so please bring your friends, families, and/or neighbors!
Michael Collier will be reading Thursday, November 10, at 7:00 pm in the 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. 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.
Kate Bernheimer will be reading Monday, November 14, at 7:00 pm in the Love Library Rm 430.
Kate Bernheimer has published novels, stories, children's books, and essays on fairy tales, and has edited three influential fairy-tale anthologies. 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.
Poetry International, in association with the Polyphonic Workshop and Reading Series, The Poetry Translation Club, and The Writer's Collective, is proud to announce its Spring Reading and Workshop Series.
April and May Events
Sunday, April 10th: Brian Evenson Workshop, "Craft of Fiction and the Novel" *
Monday, April 11th at 7 p.m.: Brian Evenson Reading at SDSU's Scripps Cottage
Sunday, April 17th, Time/Location TBA: Nikola Madzirov Workshop **
Monday, April 18th at 7 pm: Nikola Madzirov Reading, Love Library Room 430
Sunday, May 1st: Gioia Timpanelli Workshop, "The Art of Storytelling" *
Monday, May 2nd at 7 p.m.: Gioia Timpanelli Reading at SDSU's Scripps Cottage
Sunday, May 8th, Time/Location TBA: Rikki Ducornet Workshop **
Monday, May 9th at 7 pm: Katie Farris and Rikki Ducornet Reading, Love Library Room 430
Generous support from Poets & Writers, The Hugh C. Hyde Living Writers Series, and Associate Students makes this reading series possible.
Monday, February 14th at 2 pm: Jerry Farber lecture, "Against Creative Writing," Love Library Room 430
Sunday, Feb. 27th: Christian Wiman Workshop, "The Form and Pulse of Poetry"
Monday, Feb. 28th at 7 p.m.: Christian Wiman Reading at SDSU's Scripps Cottage
Monday, March 14th at 7 pm: Michael McClure and Jerome Rothenberg Reading, Scripps Cottage
Thursday, March 17th: G.C. Waldrep Workshop, "Craft of Poetry"
Friday, March 18th at 7 p.m.: Piotr Florczyk, Boris Dralyuk, and G.C. Waldrep Reading at SDSU's Scripps Cottage
Thursday, March 24th at 7 pm: David Kirby Reading, Love Library Room 430
Friday, March 25th, Time/Location TBA: David Kirby Workshop
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