2009 Annual Book Fair
Vendors

City College Bookstore

City Works Press

KPBS

Poetic Matrix Press

Poetry International

Read Local

San Diego Writing Women

SIFE (Students in Free Enterprise)

Sunbelt Publications


 
Children and Young Adults

Oct. 3 - Children’s activity room—south end of cafeteria

10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Variety of activities for children, including face painting, writing, illustrating books, making lucha libre (wrestling) masks, and more.

 

Oct. 3 - Moved to D121A/B

10:00 a.m. Willie Perdomo, Visiting Langston (level: 4-8 years old)

10:45 a.m. Roberta Labastida, My Ancestors’ Village (8-12)

11:30 a.m. Rick Halsey, Fire and Chaparral (12-adult)

12:15 p.m. Jeff Garcia, Santa Claus and the Molokai Mules: A Hawaiian Surfing Adventure (4-8)

1:00 p.m. Larry Keough, Fragilly and Dirty Dan

1:45 p.m. Janet Gastil, Follow the Sun (12-20 and up)

3:15 p.m. Lowell Lindsay, Fossil Treasures (12-16)

4:00 p.m.  Ying Chang Compestine, A Banquet for Hungry Ghosts (13-17)

 

Oct. 3 - City College Room C211 En español (readings in Spanish)

10:45 a.m. Úrsula Tania, Aspuk, Aspuk, Colorin, Colorado: Espectáculo de cuentos, mitos, y leyendas de las Californias, música por Jesse Vázquez ¨Chaks.¨ (3+)

1:00 p.m. José Lozano, Once Around the Block: Una Vuelta a la Manzana (4-8)

2:30 p.m. P. J. Sáinz, Mica Chueca (12-20+)

 
Sept. 28-Oct. 3, 2009
Perla Batalla

Perla Batalla Photo by Sherry Barnett

Sept. 28 - City College Room D121A/B

12:45-2 p.m. Author Michael Ornelas, The Sons of Guadalupe

7-8 p.m. Author David Lucero, The Sandman


Sept. 29 - City College Room D121A/B

12:45-2:10 p.m. Author Reyna Grande, Dancing with Butterflies


Sept. 30 - City College Room L110

5:30-6:45 p.m. Author Cheryl Klein, Creative Writing Workshop

Sept. 30 - City College Room D121A/B

7-8:30 p.m. Author Cheryl Klein, Lilac Mines


Oct. 1 - City College Room D121A/B

12:45-2:10 p.m. Residency with Perla Batalla

Oct. 1 - World Beat Cultural Center (Click for Directions)

6:30-9 p.m. Director Terrence Stubbs, premiere: Nommogeneity

Reception at 6:30 p.m. Screening at 7 p.m.

 

Oct. 2 - City College Saville Theatre

7-8 p.m. Author Ella deCastro Baron, Itchy Brown Girl Seeks Employment

8-9 p.m. Author Ana Castillo, The Guardians

9 p.m. Concert with Perla Batalla

Oct. 3 - City College Saville Theatre

Full day of authors

10 a.m. Gustavo Arellano, Orange County; ¡Ask a Mexican!

11 a.m. Rodolfo Acuña, lecture, "Chicano Studies: from Activism to Mainstream"

12 noon Lavanderia: A Mixed Load of Women, Wash and Word., edited by Donna J. Watson

Lavanderia readings by Ella deCastro Baron, Chris Baron, Nancy Cary, Olga García Echeverría, Lucia Gbaya-Kanga, Nadia Mandilawi, D. Zenani Mzube, Michelle Sierra

1 p.m. Barry Sanders, The Green Zone: The Environmental Costs of Militarism

2 p.m. William Powers, lecture, "Write to Make Change"

3 p.m. Marilyn Chin, Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen

4 p.m. Laurel Corona, Until Our Last Breath

5 p.m. Willie Perdomo, Where a Nickel Costs a Dime

Oct. 3 - City College Room C211 En español (reading in Spanish)

4 p.m. P. J. Sáinz, Crónicas chúntaras. La música de la plebada

 


Featuring:

Wanda Coleman

Known for her take-no-prisoners readings, Wanda Coleman is a recent contributor to HARRIET (poetryfoundation.org) and drgodine.blogspot. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, Zyzzyva, Obsidian and Best American Poetry. She has been featured in Writing Los Angeles (Library of America), Poet’s Market (2003), Quercus Review VI, The Los Angeles Review, the Burnside Review and online at MS.

A seminal figure of L.A.’s poetry underground, she has shared the stage with such cultural icons as Timothy Leary, Alice Coltrane, Allen Ginsberg, Bonnie Raitt, Los Lobos and Richard (Louie Louie) Barry. Coleman has been an Emmy-winning scriptwriter, and columnist for Los Angeles Times magazine; a nominee for poet laureate of California, and for the USA artists fellowship. She has published 18 books of poetry and fiction which include Bathwater Wine, winner of the 1999 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize—the first African-American woman to receive the award -- and Mercurochrome (poems), bronze-medal finalist, National Book Awards 2001. Her honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the NEA. Her most recent books include Ostinato Vamps (Pitt Poetry Series), The Riot Inside Me: Trials & Tremors (nonfiction, Godine/Black Sparrow), WANDA COLEMAN: Poems Seismic in Scene (de la chienne) - Mise en page et calligraphies/layout and illumination by Jean-Jacques Tachdjian, and Jazz & Twelve O’clock Tales—new stories. The World Falls Away, new poems, will appear in fall 2011 (Pitt Poetry Series).