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POETRY TO THE PEOPLE!
SAN JOSE CELEBRATES NATIONAL POETRY MONTH
A CENTER FOR LITERARY ARTS PRODUCTION
Every Tuesday in April - High Noon
@
DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. LIBRARY, STREET-SIDE PATIO
150 E. SAN FERNANDO ST., SAN JOSE
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April 6
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Lyn Hejinian is a poet, essayist, and translator. Her recent books include Saga / Circus, A Border Comedy, and The Language of Inquiry. Hejinian is also actively involved in collaboratively composed works, including a major collection of poems by Hejinian and Jack Collom, and a composition entitled Qúê Trân with music by John Zorn and text by Hejinian. She teaches at UC Berkeley.
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The recipient of Stegner, National Endowment for the Arts, and MacDowell Colony poetry fellowships, Brian Teare is the author of three books of poetry: The Room Where I Was Born, Sight Map, and the forthcoming Pleasure. He lives and teaches in San Francisco, where he also makes books by hand for his micropress, Albion Books.
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Keetje Kuipers is a native of the Northwest and the recipient of fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center, Squaw Valley Community of Writers, Oregon Literary Arts, and Soapstone, as well as awards from Atlanta Review and Nimrod. Her book, Beautiful in the Mouth, was awarded the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. Keetje is currently a Stegner Fellow at Stanford.
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April 13
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Kenneth Fields is the author of seven collections of poetry, including most recently Music from Another Room and Classic Rough News. He has taught in the Stanford Creative Writing Program since 1967.
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Rebecca Black is the author of Cottonlandia. Recipient of NEA and Wallace Stegner fellowships, she directs the Creative Writing Program at Santa Clara University.
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Gloria Frym is the author of several volumes of poetry, including The Lost Sappho Poems, Solution Simulacra, Homeless at Home, and By Ear; two short story collections; and a book of interviews, Second Stories: Conversations with Women Artists. She is the recipient of an American Book Award, a Walter & Elise Haas Creative Work Fund Grant, and California Arts Council grants to teach poetry to jail inmates.
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April 20
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Juliana Spahr is a poet, editor, and literary critic. Her 2005 collection, This Connection of Everyone with Lungs, chronicled the buildup to the latest US invasion of Iraq, and was awarded a Small Press Traffic Book of the Year award. In recent years, she published the co-edited collection Poetry & Pedagogy: The Challenge of the Contemporary, with Joan Retallack, and The Transformation, a book of prose.
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Randall Mann is the author of the poetry collections Breakfast with Thom Gunn and Complaint in the Garden, winner of the Kenyon Review Prize; and co-author of the textbook Writing Poems. He works as an editor and lives in San Francisco.
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Diem Jones's poetry can be found in Sufi Warrior, A Collection of Words and on Spoken Song collections Black Fish Jazz and Equanimity. He is the author of #1 Bimini Road, a photo history of George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic. His forthcoming project, A Spirit of Oui, will be released as a book and CD in 2010. He is Executive Director of the Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation and Director of the Voices Writing Workshops at the University of San Francisco, focused on writers of color.
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April 27
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D. A. Powell's most recent poetry collection, Chronic, was chosen by the Los Angeles Times and Publishers Weekly as one of the best books of the year. His previous collections include Tea, Lunch and Cocktails, the latter a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2004. Powell has taught at Columbia University, University of Iowa and at Harvard, where he will be this year's Phi Beta Kappa Poet.
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Maria Hummel is the author of the novel Wilderness Run and chapbook City of the Moon. Her nonfiction, poems, and stories have appeared in Ploughshares, The Believer, Crazyhorse, The Sun, and Creative Nonfiction. She is a Jones Lecturer in Poetry at Stanford.
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Justin Chin's third book of poetry, Gutted, received the Publishing Triangle's 2007 Thom Gunn Award for Poetry, and was a finalist in the Lambda Literary Awards, and the Assoc. for Asian American Studies Book Awards. His other books of poetry are Bite Hard, and Harmless Medicine, a finalist in the 2002 Bay Area Book Reviewers Association Awards. He is also the author of three collections of essays.
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Events funded by Applied Materials Excellence in the Arts Grants, a program of
Arts Council Silicon Valley. Co-sponsored by Poetry Center San Jose,
Reed magazine, and the Santa Clara Review.
DON'T MISS SJSU'S LEGACY OF POETRY DAY, APRIL 22!
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