2010 Annual Book Fair
Sept. 24 - Oct. 2, 2010
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Versed by Rae Armantrout

All events free and open to the public.

Friday, Sept. 24 - Saville Theatre

7-10 p.m.

An Evening with the Women of the Odyssey (a program of dance and drama) with Laurel Corona, author of Penelope's Daughter, and Dr. Constance Carroll, San Diego Community College District Chancellor

Monday, Sept. 27 - D121A/B

11:10-12:45 p.m.

Panel and book signing: Giovanna Pang Garcia, Dr. Virginia Loh, Wayne Chan, and Ray Wong discuss journalism, publishing, books and culture from an Asian perspective (Sponsored by World Cultures)

Wednesday, Sept. 29 - B103

7-8:30 p.m.

Documentary Hybrid Identities: Artistic Voices from the Border — Director: Laura Castañeda; co-producers: Elizabeth Meehan and Antonio Jiménez

Thursday, Sept. 30 - D121A/B

11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Reading and book signing with Paul Vanderwood, author of Satan’s Playground: Mobster and Movie Stars at America’s Greatest Gaming Resort

12:45-2:10 p.m.

Panel and book signing: Walls, Fences, Borders and Boundaries: Essays on Social Exclusion, Inclusion and Integration — Professors Justin Akers-Chacón, Sharon Allen, and Aníbal Yáñez discuss the impact of borders around the globe.

Friday, Oct. 1 - Saville Theatre

7-9 p.m.

Reading, book signing, and concert: Author Luis Rodríguez in collaboration with Grammy nominee Perla Batalla and her band

Saturday, Oct. 2 - Saville Theatre

Readings and books signings:

1-2 p.m. Rae Armantrout, recipient, 2010 Pulitzer Prize in poetry for Versed

2-3 p.m. Danzy Senna, author of Where Did You Sleep Last Night? A Personal History

3-4 p.m. Forrest Hylton, author of Vanishing Acts

4-5 p.m. Kelly Mayhew, editor of City Works Press anthology Mamas and Papas: On the Sublime and Heartbreaking Art of Parenting

5-6:30 p.m. Jim Miller, author of Flash, in collaboration with musician Gregory Page
 


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).

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