This is a Living Writers presentation.

Larry McCaffery on COOVER LINK--touch Uncle Sam's face to drink Larry's words...
 

David Matlin on Robert Coover's The Public Burning:
No novel since World War II captures the spectre of disarrangements and seething evils in the career of Richard Nixon, and the execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, with a more comic and terrifying poise than Robert Coover's The Public Burning. It is one of our only books that takes its culture for a night ride, renaming and remapping the phantasmagoric, overcrowded oblivions that lurk at our front doors. Coover calls this execution "a watershed event in American history," one that incalculably marks us. His novel resurrects this mid-century panic and human sacrifice that launched Nixon. There is no one who has created a maze of wonders, spells, leakages of humanity like this single Californian, no one who has made such weird wreckage out of our supposed democracy, and no one has rendered the fact of this single man, his duplicity, fixedness, and tormented, even fantastic rottenness, like Robert Coover in The Public Burning

CRISIS CARNIVAL CONFERENCE 1999

Erasing
Community

Fractured Voice and Veiled Vision
October 8/9, 1999
 

a slide show and lecture by

DAVID CARRASCO

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY

MONTEZUMA HALL
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1999 at 4pm
 

READ ABOUT PROFESSOR CARRASCO'S NEW BOOK
 

This event is co-sponsored by the Associated Students, MEChA, Literati--The Honors Program in English and Comparative Literature, The Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies and the Center for Latin American Studies
 

Celebration of Poetry International Issue 3
A second "celebration" of the publication of Poetry International  #3 will be held in D.G. Wills bookstore in La Jolla this coming Saturday, December 4 at 8PM.  Featured readers will include Steve Kowit, whose essay "The Mystique of the Difficult Poem" in Issue 3 is creating quite a stir in the poetry world, as well as Bruce Boston and Fred Moramarco.  (Steve and Bruce are on PI's San Diego Editorial Board).  In addition, Editorial Assistants Caron Andregg and Miriam Hadaad will read from the magazine and their work.  Please invite your classes--especially poetry and creative writing classes--and feel free to attend yourself.  It's a very cheap Saturday night date...absolutely free.  D.G. Wills is located at 7461 Girard Ave, right next to the Pannikin Coffee & Tea in La Jolla.

Celebration of Fiction International 32
Fiction International 32, on the theme of Sabotage, is freshly published, and there will be a reception and briefish reading for the issue at the Blue Door Bookstore on Fifth Avenue, between University and Robinson, in Hillcrest. The date is Sunday, Dec 5, at 2PM. Everyone is welcome. For more information, contact Hal Jaffe at <hjaffe@mail.sdsu.edu> or touch the word--> SABOTAGE

Wednesday, Dec 8th 3 p.m.
Love Library
Special Collections, LA 4410

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jimmy Santiago Baca was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1952. His books of poetry include IMMIGRANTS IN OUR OWN LAND, BLACK MESA POEMS, MARTIN AND OTHER MEDITATIONS ON THE SOUTH VALLEY and THE EROTIC POEMS. As a screenwriter and film producer, his credits include BOUND BY HONOR, BLOOD IN BLOOD OUT, MEXICAN ROOTS, THE PANCHO GONZALES STORY, and EL CHAMACO. His awards include the NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR POETRY AWARD, VOGELSTEIN FOUNDATION AWARD, NATIONAL HISPANIC HERITAGE AWARD, BERKELEY REGENTS AWARD, PUSHCART PRIZE, SOUTHWEST BOOK AWARD, and AMERICAN BOOK AWARD. He lives with his two children in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Sponsors:    The Chicana and Chicano Studies Department, the English Department and the SDSU Library

Renee Swindle
Friday March 31, 2000,  NORTH EDUCATION 60, 7pm.
 

Professor Roberta Borkat Memorial Service

The Department of English and Comparative Literature will be holding a memorial service for Professor Roberta Borkat on Friday, May 12, at Scripps Cottage from 2:15 to 4:00 p.m.  Please call the department office at 594-5237 if you have any questions.

Professor Roberta Borkat won summa cum laude honors as she received her B.A. in English from Cornell University in 1964. She earned her Ph.D. in Literature from the University of California, San Diego in 1969.  She was appointed to the faculty of the Department of English and Comparative Literature at San Diego State that same year and moved up through the ranks, becoming a full professor in 1984. A specialist in British Literature of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century, Professor Borkat edited The Plays of Richard Cumberland, fifty of them. She published a number of articles  on other plays of the period, including Etherege's The Man of Mode, Dryden's All for Love, Tyler's The Contrast, and Lillo's The London Merchant. Swift and his satire  were  among Professor Borkat's loves, and she published essays on Swift. In the days when freshman composition resided in the department, Professor Borkat published in that field as well, and offered a special English grammar course for journalism majors. In recent years, she contributed talks on the Jew in British Literature to the Jewish Studies lecture series.  A highly appreciated teacher throughout her career at San Diego State,  Professor Borkat was named teacher of the year by the Latter-Day Saints Students Association in 1984, and A Quest for the Best award winning student Daren Mooko named her his outstanding faculty member in 1993.  She was  a member of both Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi. For many years, Professor Borkat has been shepherding English majors through the first half of the British Literature survey, English 260A, teaching two sections of the course every semester. Turning that course over to other instructors will mark a real changing of the guard.  We honor Professor Borkat for her long and highly effective, dedicated contributions to our students' educations and lives.
 
 

 

LIVING WRITERS SERIES LECTURE Michelle Serros FRIDAY May 19, 2000 Scripps Cottage, 7pm

Poetry International IV COMING OUT PARTY INFO HERE

FIRST ANNUAL JOHN KENNEDY TOOLE COMEDY SEMINAR
THURSDAY MARCH 8, 2001 @ 12:30PM LOVE LIBRARY 2203
PROFESSOR MICHAEL W. HARPER

breaking news: Raymond Federman to ATTACK SDSU Campus March 22, 2001WEEKLY CAFÉ LITERATI MEETINGS COME ONE! COME ALL!
 

Hugh C. Hyde Living Writers Series

Diana García is giving the Hugh C. Hyde Living Writers Series' reading this Friday evening--the Annual Laurie Okuma Presentation for Spring 2001. García's now a long-distance colleague of ours at CSU, Monterey Bay--just a few years ago she was one of the first MFA graduates from SDSU.

Quetzalcoatl Room
FRIDAY MARCH 23, 2001
Aztec Center (downstairs, to the left)@ 7 p.m.

Wednesday @ 7:30! Medievalist Society Lecture by Dr. Mathew Kuefler, History Department March 28, 2001 at 3:00 PM AT THE Aztec Center/ Backdoor.

TWO Children's Literature lectures on WEDNESDAY March 28th 2001 for the price of one--gratis! click GOODNIGHT MOON for more info. 2 LECTURES; ONE AT 4:30 AND ONE AT 7:00PM.

HUGH C. HYDE LIVING WRITERS READING! DAVID WONG LOUIE 3/29/01 7pm LOVE LIBRARY!

Our nearby cross-highway  intellectual rivals at USD are bringing  Dr. Cornel West to San Diego! Friday, April 6, 7:30pm @USD "Restoring Hope" will be the topic of keynote speaker Dr. Cornel West, Professor of Afro-American Studies and Philosophy of Religion at Harvard University. West, one of the nation's preeminent scholars on race relations, is the author of numerous articles and 15 books, including "The Future of the Race," "Restoring Hope" and the best-seller "Race Matters."  Tickets are $5 general admission, and may be purchased in advance at the University Center box office. (Group tickets are also available) Location: Jenny Craig Pavilion Contact: Office of Community Service Learning Phone: (619) 260-4798.

¡Holy Derrida! Our little sister Literature program at UCSD up interstate 5 in La Jolla is hosting lectures and chit-chats early next month by a hyper-charged intellectual dynamic duo spewing tasty hotshot critical theory right and left: Frederick Jameson & Slavoj Zizek.  Grab Dr. Jameson's finger in the image opposite and get the skinny!

APRIL 20, 2001 THIS FRIDAY! SDSU London Program INFO Meeting British Refreshments will be served--sans Mad Cow Disease!

The Hugh C. Hyde Living Writers Series and the SDSU Department of English and Comparative Literature present Michael Datcher and Jenoyne Adams Monday, April 30, at 7:00 p.m.  Their reading will be in Scripp's Cottage.  Michael Datcher's poetry has been featured in the anthologies Body and Soul (Crown) and Catch the Fire: A Generational Anthology of Contemporary African- American Poetry (Penguin).  He has just published a memoir, Raising Fences: A Black Man's Love Story. Jenoyne Adams has also appeared in Catch the Fire, as well as the anthology Tough Love.  She is vocalist, dancer, and co-lead poet in the band Love Uprising.  She has just published first novel, Resurrecting Mingus (Simon & Schuster). HELP CAFE LITERATI's SAN JUAN BOSCO PROJECT! Class of 2001 CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OUR GRADUATES COMMENCEMENT INFO As Graduation approaches you might find yourself on the receiving end of that timeworn question, "An English major?! What are you going to do with THAT!?" And pity even more those mournful Comparative Literature majors who can't even hope to expect that question, meeting instead with an open empty stare or shrug. Well save yourself some time, aggravation, and an inappropriate explosion of expletives (after all, you don't want to endanger that big graduation gift) and make that well-meaning 'darling' follow the Shakespeare-Microscope hyperlink to your right.  You'll be glad you did! They might be also.  in memorium Dr. Jay Gellens Professor of Engish SDSU rest in peace Tuesday February 12, 2002 7pm Room 2203 Love Library CLAYTON ESHLEMAN HOSTS: The Hugh C. Hyde Living Writers Series, The SDSU Department of English & Comparative Literature, and the Malcolm A. Love Library; for more info call 619.594.5318. The Hugh C. Hyde Living Writers Series Presents An Electronic Literature Event In 2 Parts Featuring Scott Rettberg with Dirk Stratton & William Gillespie Monday, April 8, 2002 Part I:  An electronic literature presentation  3-5 pm in AH 1120 Part II:  An interactive live reading of a  collaborative hypertext novel 7 pm in AH 4176 **This event is free and open to the public.  This series is made possible by the support of the Department of English and Comparative Literature, an IRA grant, and the Hugh C. Hyde Endowment.** TODAY • TUESDAY • APRIL 16, 2002 @ 7PM SCRIPPS COTTAGE, SDSU pacific REVIEW 2002 Book RELEASE Party  & Free Public Reading NOW AVAILABLE instantly via paypal! snail mail as well! An Arts Review Annual published by Students in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at SDSU in cooperation with SDSU PRESS.   TODAY The Children's Literature Circle of San Diego State University Presents: Michael Joseph Rutgers University Varieties of Nostalgia: Children's Literature and the End of Time Wednesday, April 17, 2002 @ 4:00 pm 2203 Love Library Addition (this room is in the Love Memorial Library, near the Reserve Desk) Additional Sponsors:  Department of English and Comparative Literature and Love Memorial Library Please contact June Cummins for more info Director, Children's Literature Program Department of English and Comparative Literature San Diego State University THE HUGH C. HYDE LIVING WRITERS SERIES! WEDNESDAY APRIL 17! HAL JAFFEE &  JOANNE MESCHERY MALCOLM A. LOVE LIBRARY  ROOM 2203 @ 7pm

cafe literati pacific REVIEW  CompLit 595 Sighting Words & English 220 Lights Body Ink  present YOUNG VALIANT An Afternoon with Oliver Mayer free admission/seating limited Tuesday @ 3:30, April 30th, 2002 Family Studies 108 @ SDSU reception following TBA OLIVER MAYER - was born in Los Angeles. He is the author of twelve plays including BLADE TO THE HEAT, which will be made as a film by Madonna. The play premiered at the Public Theatre in New York City directed by George C. Wolfe. The revised version appeared on the Mark Taper Forum mainstage directed by Ron Link, and subsequent productions have taken place in San Francisco, Chicago, and Mexico City. JOE LOUIS BLUES just closed  at the Jomandi Theater in Atlanta, after successful runs in Los Angeles and San Francisco. His newest plays are BOLD AS LOVE, currently in development; and CONJUNTO, which will be produced at Stages in Hollywood, directed by Arye Gross. RAGGED TIME will be produced by the Black Dahlia Theatre in Los Angeles in September; it was presented at the Royal Court Theatre, London as well as the Taper New Work Festival, and is anthologized in the book OUT OF THE FRINGE (TCG 2000). JOY OF THE DESOLATE premiered at the Apple Tree in Chicago July 2000. THE ROAD TO LOS ANGELES was produced by Campo Santo in Hayward, California, at San Jose Repertory, and at SPARC in Venice, California. Just casted and in rehearsals, YOUNG VALIANT will receive its world premiere at INTAR in May 2002, directed by Michael Garces. Oliver teaches playwriting at Art Center College of Design, and recently lectured at Cornell University. A graduate of Cornell and Columbia Universities, and an attendee at Worcester College, Oxford, Oliver's literary archive can be accessed through the Stanford University Libraries. He was voted "100 Coolest" people by BUZZ Magazine.   more info? The SDSU Department of Women's Studies with the Hugh C. Hyde Living Writers Series welcome Vivian Gornick Wednesday, May 1st, 2002 7:00 p.m. in the Malcolm A. Love Library Room 2203 "Beatifully written prose" --The Boston Phoenix  "Gornick has made a vocation of experiencing herself, and...the experience is beautifully transmitted." --New York Times Book Review "Vivian Gornick is one of the most vital and indispensable essayists of our cultural moment. Her sentences go straight to the heart of whatever subject she undertakes. She has a bracing honesty and an invigorating capacity to refuse premature solace and glib alibi. Her unreconcilably solitudinous voice paradoxically speaks for us all." --Phillip Lopate "Gripping...Gornick's clear writing and honest expression of her own need for personal connections, independence, and meaningful work make the reader feel like a participant-observer in all her experiences and personal encounters."   Vivian Gornick is the author of The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative. Commencement 2002 information and Pictures! a SUMMER public lecture hosted by  e301 Marx on the Couch, Freud at the Bank/The Psychological Novel An Introduction to Sinclair Lewis's BABBITT by Michael Wyatt Harper Professor, Mount San Antonio College, Walnut, CA ABD/PhD program: Claremont Graduate University; MA: SDSU 10am in Adams Humanities 4176 THURSDAY JUNE 6, 2002 A Southern California native, Michael Wyatt Harper received his BA and MA degrees at San Diego State University. He is a member of the Department of English, Literature & Journalism at Mt. San Antonio College where he teaches various courses in reading thinking and writing--in particular, his pedagogy squarely targets intriguing and diverse facets of American culture and aesthetics. Before coming to Mt. SAC, Professor Harper led classes at several other area colleges and universities, including San Diego State and the University of La Verne. Currently, Harper is completing his Ph.D. in American Literature and Culture at Claremont Graduate University with a dissertation entitled: Ludic Americana: The Play Element of the American Self. George Babbitt-style reception TBA right after the lecture/discussion TODAYAllan GURGANUS READING AT SDSU Thursday Sept 19 2002 7pm @ Love Library room 2203 (across from the reserve desk!) first HUGH C HYDE LIVING WRITERS READING OF THE FALL SEMESTER--for a cool GURGANUS interview here (click the microphone!) --> JAN LEE ANDE READING  FOR THE LIVING  WRITER SERIES  THURSDAY  September 27, 2002 MONDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2002  Cecile Pineda SALON--7pm @ Love Library 2203, click here for details! WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2002 Jose Kozer reading--7pm @ Love Library 2203, click here for...you know! THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2002 JACK BENSON ON CHASING STEINBECK'S GHOST noon @ the  SDSU Campus Bookstore public lecture The First Nabokov/Welles/Buñuel Seminar on Comparative Cultural Approaches to Film and Literature THE RIGHTING MOMENT SIN, DECADENCE AND DESIRE IN THEATRE AND FILM BETWEEN BROADWAY AND HOLLYWOOD a lecture and discussion with OLIVER MAYER Thursday November 7, 2002 9:30am to 11am, CSQ 201 (the SDSU College Square classrooms are located over Starbucks where Kinko's used to be in one of the stranger lecture halls you'll find on campus) OLIVER MAYER is the author of fifteen plays including BLADE TO THE HEAT, which premiered at the Public Theatre in New York City directed by George C. Wolfe. The revised version premiered on the Mark Taper Forum mainstage directed by Ron Link, and subsequent productions have taken place in San Francisco, Chicago, and Mexico City. The play is published by Dramatists Play Service. JOE LOUIS BLUES received its world premiere in San Francisco at Thick Description, and was subsequently produced at the Tiffany Theater in Los Angeles, and the New Jomandi Theater in Atlanta. CONJUNTO will premiere at Teatro Vision, and will also be produced at STAGES Theater in Los Angeles; it was at the Sundance Lab, San Jose Rep, and was workshopped at the 1999 Taper New Work Festival. RAGGED TIME received its world premiere at the Black Dahlia Theatre in Los Angeles in October 2002, and was previously presented at the Royal Court Theatre, London, an! d the Taper New Work Festival; it is anthologized in the OUT OF THE FRINGE (TCG 2000). JOY OF THE DESOLATE premiered at the Apple Tree in Chicago, and will be produced in 2003 at Cal Arts. THE ROAD TO LOS ANGELES was produced at San Diego State University, by Campo Santo at Chabot College in Hayward, CA, at SPARC in Venice, CA, and at San Jose Rep. Other plays include YOUNG VALIANT, world premiere at INTAR in NYC Summer 2002, BOLD AS LOVE, and THE RIGHTING MOMENT. Oliver is Resident Playwright at Art Center School of Design in Pasadena, CA. He is a graduate of Cornell and Columbia Universities, and attended Worcester College, Oxford. His literary archive can be accessed through Stanford University Libraries. Combining and attending to the dexterous syntactical shenanigans of Vladimir Nabokov, of Lolita fame and infamy, the lucid and lurid cinematic acrobatics of Orson Welles, of Citizen Kane fame and infamy and, last but not least, the lusciously overwrought sinematic film-stylings of Luis Buñuel, of Viridiana fame and infamy, this lecture series seeks to explore and connect the worlds of film and literature with a particular emphasis on ideas of transgression and identity. Generously sponsored by the students of English 301: SINEMA, COMPLIT 445: Latin American Lit and Film, HYPE BOOKS, SDSU PRESS, Cafe Literati, pacific REVIEW y La prensa de la vanidad. THE MASTER OF FINE ARTS PROGRAM IN CREATIVE WRITING LITERARY SEMINARS AND READINGS RITES OF SUBMISSION Thursday, November 14, 1:30-3:30 IN the Seminar ROOM, AH 4157 novelist Joanne Meschery and poet Jan Ande  HOW to submit your prose and poetry for publication Thursday, November 14th at 7 pm in love library 2203 for the hugh c. hyde living writers series Debra Magpie Earling will read from her novel Perma Red Debra  Magpie Earling is a member of the salish tribe and a professor of native american studies and fiction at the university of montana   comparative literature 210 FALL 2002 Lecture Series gender/image/power/text comparative literature for the 21st century  The First Walter Benjamin/Rosario Castellanos Colloquia™ in Comparative Literature & Cultural Studies  Visions of Hell in Dante's Inferno  Dr. Laurel Amtower, SDSU  Tuesday, November 19, 2003 AH 2134 @ 4pm The Department of English and Comparative Literature  San Diego State University    Also note: Tomorrow @ 7pm Tuesday, November 19, 2003 Love Library 2203 Across the Line: The Poetry of Baja California w/ Harry Polkinhorn sponsored by Engl and CompLIT, Love Library and the Hugh C. Hyde Living Writiers series! Pam Muñoz Ryan Wednesday, March 26   4:00 pm  Casa Real Pam Muñoz Ryan has written over 25 books for young people including the novel Esperanza Rising, winner of the Pura Belpre Medal, the Jane Addams Peace Award, an ALA Top Ten Best Book for Young Adults, the Americas Award Honor Book and one of five finalists for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. It is currently nominated for the California Young Reader Medal. The acclaimed Amelia and Eleanor Go For A Ride is an ALA Notable Book, an American Booksellers' Book of the Year Finalist, and an IRA Teachers' Choice. Her novel Riding Freedom has garnered many awards including the national Willa Cather Award, and the California Young Reader Medal. Mice and Beans is a recent ALA Notable Book. She was born and raised in Bakersfield, California and received her Bachelor's and Master's Degrees at San Diego State University. She now lives in north San Diego County with her husband. They have four children.

ENGLISH AND COMPARATIVE LITERATURE SUMMER 2003 STUDY ABROAD PROGRAMS: GALWAY AND LONDON!

latin american studies/ comparative literature conference on the arts of el salvador @ sdsu

Distinguished professor, novelist and screenwriter, MARK AXELROD, will be appearing for the Hugh C. Hyde Living Writers Series on Wednesday, October 8th at 7pm in the Malcolm A. Love library, room 2203. Please take advantage of this wonderful opportunity to hear him speak about his work.

Next-Wave, Post-movimiento Chicano Arts guru Tomás Riley comes to the SDSU Campus! November 10 Monday 12 noon Hardy Tower 140 While room will be tight, you and yours are invited to sample some of the finest 21st century American Literature this side of Manhattan, Chicago, and Montreal as Oakland's favorite son by way of San Diego and now, San Francisco, invades SDSU for a triumphant homecoming!!  more info? memo@sdsu.edu sponsored by the nakedeye/i

Spoken Word Itinerant Arts Feast  Hot UCSD Conference!

Two, Four Six, Eight, We Ain't Gonna Integrate: Poetry, Politics, and the Playground Speaker: Joseph Thomas, Asst Prof, CSUN Date: Tuesday, February 24 Time: 4:00 pm @ Love Library Addition, room 2203 All faculty and graduate students are welcome to this free event. info? There will be a special reading at the Claire de Lune coffee shop on Tuesday evening (Feb. 24th) at 8PM to celebrate the publication of the new "double issue" of Poetry International (7/8).  The issue features an unprecedented collection of English Language Poetry throughout the world, and will be excellent for use in "post colonial" lit classes. Come join us for the celebration (espcially you North Parkers): Claire's is at the corner of Kansas and University (near 30th) in North Park right by the North Park sign. Fred Moramarco

Fred Moramarco,
Editor, Poetry International

- Cindy Maresic, a poetry graduate student at SDSU and native of Los Angeles is a bilingual substitute teacher and TA Lecturer of Creative Writing. She loves music and has been know to frequent local Karaoke pubs.
 -Scott Tinley, a 7th generation So Cal surf bum and fiction writer, has been hiding out at SDSU, avoiding the real world since the late 70’s. Tinley has several books and numerous essays in print but would trade them all at the poetic crossroads for one decent poem that would cause Glover to say, “Give up this fiction stuff, damn it, join the real world of poets.”
-Dave Robinson is from Lowell, Massachusetts, he's published poems and book reviews in Aegis, Poetry International, Main Street Magazine, and Entelechy International. He works as a freelance writer and copy editor. He often vacations outside of Albuquerque, New Mexico, in a small paper home that is constructed solely of his rejection slips from literary magazines and journals.

SDSU Professor and MFA graduate Victoria Featherstone will moderate. There will be music (Audio Alchemy by Javier Martinez) and refreshments provided. Admission is FREE for the reading, though admission to the museum exhibit is $6 for adults, $2 for students with valid I.D. Glover’s wax image has not been installed in the museum yet. To all those who don’t come, Levine included…Shaaaame! For further information email Dave Robinson, Scott Tinley or call the SDSU English Dept. at 619-594-5443.

led by

Jason Dunn, MA in English (British literature), Spring 2004,
Randy Harrison, MA in English (rhetoric), Spring 2000,
Tanvi Patel, MFA (poetry), Spring 2004

For questions, please contact:
Professor Clare Colquitt
Graduate Director, MA in English
colquitt@mail.sdsu.edu or 594-6219 

  Professor Cezar Ornatowski
 Graduate Director, MA in Rhetoric and Writing Studies
 ornat@mail.sdsu.edu

 Professor Suzanne Bordelon
 Department of Rhetoric and Writing Studies
 sbordelo@mail.sdsu.edu

Poet Shadab Zeest Hashmi will be the featured artist at the Laurie Okuma Memorial Reading on Wednesday, October 20, at 7:00 p.m. in Room 2203 of the San Diego State University Library. The event is free and open to all. Hashmi is the editor of the annual Magee Park Poets Anthology. Her poems have appeared in New Millennium Writings, Hubbub, The Poetry Conspiracy, and will appear in the forthcoming anthology Risen From East. For more information, please call (619) 594-5318.

Alane Rollings 
SDSU's Love Library
Room 2203
Tuesday, November 30th at 7pm.

ALANE ROLLINGS was born in Savannah, Georgia, and grew up in the South. She attended Bryn Mawr College and received a B.A. and M.A. from the University of Chicago. She has taught at Loyola University and the University of Chicago, and in 1986 she received an Illinios Arts Council grant for her work on In Your Own Sweet Time. Her first book, transparent Landscapes, was a Writer's Choice Pushcart/NEA selection in 1985. She earlier worked as a rental agent in Chicago, as an assistant survey director of the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago, and as a producer of the university television show "Perspectives." Her husband, Richard Stern, is a novelist. Their home is in Chicago.

"I am much taken with Rollings's wild but striking ingenuities, her surprises that surprise a second time by their justice. By love and fear and dream she seems to re-connect the psyche and the cosmos in a kind of Shakespearean shorthand" Howard Nemerov

2004 Graduating MFA Poets
Estela Eaton & Ryan Boldrey
Wednesday, December 15th at 7pm
in SDSU's Malcolm A. Love Library
Room 430 (on the fourth floor)

This event is free and open to the public. 
Please come and enjoy!

led by eight (!) current and former graduate students who will begin doctoral study this coming fall:
 

Crystal Brownell, Deborah Hallett, Erika Koss-Smith, Eric Kuniholm, Leah Snider, & Barbara Zimbalist || MA in English	&	Megan Little & Michael Depalma MA in Rhetoric
For questions, please contact: Professor Clare Colquitt Graduate Director, MA in English  or 594-6219		Professor Cezar Ornatowski Graduate Director, MA in Rhetoric and Writing Studies