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)
More about Diane Ackerman...
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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:
Ella deCastro Baron is a first generation Filipina American born in Oakland and raised in Vallejo, California. With a BA in English Literature from UC Berkeley, Ella moved to San Diego to earn a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing.
She is a full-time wife and mother of two little ones, a part-time English and creative writing instructor at San Diego City College, and an ‘other’-times published writer in publications such as Fiction International, Sunshine Noir, and CityWorks Literary Journal.
She hopes to continue being a witness to her ethnic upbringing, her faith, her interracial family, and how it may or may not fit together. Itchy, Brown Girl Seeks Employment is her first book. |
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