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After several years of attending packed readings for the journal and press, City College President Terry Burgess suggested we think big and start an International Book Fair that we hope will grow to rival the book fairs in Los Angeles and Miami. We are committed to promoting local writers and booksellers as well as reaching out to prominent national and international authors and artists, particularly our friends and neighbors in Mexico. This year's fair and future fairs will also showcase the arts and music as well as literature of all sorts.
Our primary goal is the promotion of literacy and cultural reciprocity. As we grow in the years to come, we hope that you will continue to mark your calendar each year and come to our fair. The San Diego City College International Book Fair would not be possible without the generous support of our major sponsors, the San Diego City College Foundation, the American Federation of Teachers Local 1931, and the City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture. We are also deeply indebted to the San Diego Booksellers Association, California Coast Credit Union, Sunbelt Publications, and KSDS Jazz 88.3. The Book Fair is put on in concert with the San Diego City College World Cultures Program.
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The San Diego City College International Book Fair is the outgrowth of over ten years of work by the Creative Writing faculty, their students, and friends in the community at large who put out the journal City Works and recently formed San Diego City Works Press.
City College is uniquely situated in the center of San Diego and we hope to serve as a cultural nexus that brings together the various communities of the city and provides a vital site for cultural exchange and growth.Featuring:
| Luis Rodríguez |
  A new memoir by Luis Rodríguez, It Calls You Back: A Writer's Odyssey through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing, is due out in October, 2011. Achieving success as an award-winning Chicano poet who escaped poverty, Rodríguez was sure the streets would haunt him no more — until his young son joined a gang himself. Rodríguez fought for his child by telling his own story in the bestseller Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A., a vivid memoir that explores the motivation of gang life and cautions against the death and destruction that inevitably claim its participants. Always Running earned a Carl Sandburg Literary Award and was designated a New York Times Notable Book; it has also been named by the American Library Association as one of the nation’s 100 most censored books. An accomplished poet, Rodríguez is the author of several collections of poetry, including My Nature is Hunger: New and Selected Poems 1989-2004 (Curbstone Press). His poetry has won a Poetry Center Book Award and a PEN/Josephine Miles Literary Award among others. His books for children, America Is Her Name and It Doesn't Have To Be This Way: A Barrio Story, published in English and Spanish, have also won several awards including a Patterson Young Adult Book Award and a Parent’s Choice Book Award. Rodríguez is also the author of Hearts and Hands: Creating Community in Violent Times and a novel, Music of the Mill. Other honors include a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award, a Lannan Fellowship for Poetry, a Hispanic Heritage Award for Literature, a California Arts Council fellowship and several Illinois Arts Council fellowships. Rodríguez was also one of 50 leaders worldwide selected as “Unsung Heroes of Compassion,” presented by the Dalai Lama. He is one of the founders of the small poetry publishing house Tia Chucha Press, as well as Tia Chucha's Café & Centro Cultural—a bookstore, coffee shop, art gallery, performance space, and workshop center in Los Angeles. More info at http://www.luisjrodriguez.com/ |
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