2009 Spring Literary Series
The 2009 Spring Literary Series is completed
Thanks to everyone who helped make this happen! See some of the past events below.
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  Author Diane Ackerman
11:00 a.m.
Saville Theatre
Author, poet, television series host and winner of the 2008 Orion Book Award, Diane Ackerman will host a lecture and Q&A session. Her recent New York Times Bestseller The Zookeeper's Wife is a non-fiction account of one couple's bravery in sheltering 300 Jews and Polish resistors in a zoo during the Nazi Holocaust — "a true story—of human empathy and its opposite—that is simultaneously grave and exuberant, wise and playful." (Washington Post Book World)
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  Poets Francisco Bustos,
Michael Cheno Wickert
1:00 p.m.
Room D-121A/B
Chicano chanting, mixed-up, multicultural, Spanglish-slinging, raza-ranting, binational-border bringers of the Word Francisco Bustos and Michael Cheno Wickert, Aquí Estamos...Ya Nos Vamos (Here We Are, Here We Go). (Calaca Press).
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  Poet Douglas Kearney
12:45 p.m.
Room D-121A/B
(Faculty dining room)
Prestigious Whiting Award recipient, poet, performer, and educator Douglas Kearney presents Fear, Some, a collection of poetry that “broadcasts from the slippery moments when personal, national, racial and aesthetic anxieties overlap” (Red Hen Press).
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  Author Laurel Corona
1:00 p.m.
Room D-121A/B
City’s very own Laurel Corona, The Four Seasons: A Novel of Vivaldi’s Venice, a “tumultous story of women discovering the complexities of their passions and the deep bonds of love, in a setting where music and an extraordinary city become central characters in and of themselves” (Voice).
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Featuring:
Larry Keough’s new children’s book, Dirty Dan, is a fun adventure for children ages 3-7 set in the Old West featuring hero Tom Gantz, damsel in distress Sally Blake and villain Dirty Dan. The book features colorful illustrations and a bonus CD that children can sing along with while reading the book.
A resident of El Cajon, Keough has written original songs for two children’s’ albums. His first book Fragilly was published in 2008.
Besides his career as an author, Keough has been a performer in San Diego for the past 20 years as a juggler, mime and musician. He teaches guitar and songwriting to elementary schoolchildren at the Explorer School where he’s produced six CD’s of kids writing and singing songs for two children’s albums.
Keough, along with partner Jerry Hager form the duo, Music With A Twist of Mime. Together they have performed for over 20 years with Young Audiences of San Diego, a local nonprofit arts education organization. They are also a mainstay at the San Diego County Fair.
Dirty Dan is illustrated by John Wismont who has produced illustrations for Disneyland, Sea World, the San Diego Zoo, IBM and Mattel among many other companies.
Keough is a graduate of San Diego State University with a B.A. degree in Recreation Administration with an emphasis in Therapeutics. He also has an A.A. in Dramatic Arts from San Diego City College.
Dirty Dan is available locally at La Mesa-Readers Inc., a children’s bookstore. To order Dirty Dan or Fragilly, visit www.fragilly.com or e-mail Larry Keough at starrmim@aol.com. |
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