MFA Faculty Reading

In case you missed CSULB's MFA Faculty Reading on May 3rd, check out the profs in action below:

Bill Mohr

Lisa Glatt

Ray Zapeda

Patty Seyburn

Suzanne Greenburg

Stephen Cooper

RipRap Journal #34 Release Party

On behalf of California State University, Long Beach and its English Department, the 2012 staff of RipRap cordially invites you to its annual release party. We will be unveiling the thirty-fourth issue of our literary journal and hearing this year's contributors present their work. Everyone who attends will receive their free copy of RipRap #34. 

The release party will be held during the evening of Friday, 11 May 2012 at the Beach Auditorium (1^st floor of the University Student Union in the center of campus) from 7:00-9:00pm, 1212 N. Bellflower Blvd., Long Beach, CA 90840.

RipRap #34 features poetry, short stories, non fiction essays, interviews and visual art. We look forward to your attendance and hope you'll continue to support RipRap.

The One Day Poetry Festival

In case you missed The One Day Poetry Festival at CSULB on April 16th (or if you'd like to relive it), you can watch video of our readers by clicking the links below:

Ron Silliman

Michelle Mitchell-Foust

Sandra Gilbert

Location Announcement

Poetry Workshop lead by Paul Kareem Tayyar

5 PM

CSULB's University Student Union - Room 220

Bring a poem and a dozen copies.

Paul Kareem Tayyar, a three-time nominee for the Pushcart Prize, is the author of four collections of poetry: Everyday Magic (West-Coast Bias Press), Scenes From A Good Life (Tebot Bach), Postmark Atlantis (Level 4 Press), and Follow the Sun: Poems, Stories, and Reflections (Aortic Books).

The One Day Poetry Festival - UPDATES

In addition to the aforementioned readings by Ron Silliman (2 PM) and Sandra Gilbert (7 PM), CSU Long Beach's English Department and HipPoetics Creative Writing Club are pleased to announce:

Meet & Greet (FOOD provided!!)

3.30 PM

Pyramid Annex

CSULB

Michelle Mitchell-Foust

4 PM 

Pyramid Annex

CSULB

Dr. Michelle Mitchell-Foust lives in Dana Point, California, where she is an instructor at Irvine Valley College. Graduating from Eastern with a BA from Eastern Illinois University and a doctorate in English from the University of Missouri-Columbia. Her work has appeared in The Nation, Antioch Review, Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, Interim, Black Warrior Review, American Literary Review, Columbia, Southern Poetry Review, The Academy of American Poets New Voices Anthology, Elixir, Equinox, Fabric, The Honest Ulsterman, and Quarterly West. She has been an American Poet in Residence in Donegal, Ireland since 1996. Her poetry manuscript entitled The Five Dreams of the Body was published in Chinese in 1999 by T & K Publishing, and her book Circassian Girl received the Elixir Press Poetry Prize and was released in the Fall, 2001.

Michelle is a winner of the Missouri Arts Council Writers' Biennial Award, a Writers At Work Fellowship, Columbia University's poetry competition, an Academy of American Poets Prize, and the 1996 "Discovery" / The Nation award. A limited edition chapbook version of her poem Poets at Seven was published by Sutton Hoo Press in 1995. A second chapbook, Exile, was published by Sangha Press in 2000. Her chapbook The Marriage Bed of Chang and Eng is forthcoming from Sangha Press. She has written her first novel, Wet Collection, and she is nearing completion of a new poetry collection entitled Imago Mundi.

Poetry Workshop lead by Paul Kareem Tayyar

5 PM

CSULB's University Student Union - exact location TBA

Bring a poem and a dozen copies.

Paul Kareem Tayyar, a three-time nominee for the Pushcart Prize, is the author of four collections of poetry: Everyday Magic (West-Coast Bias Press), Scenes From A Good Life (Tebot Bach), Postmark Atlantis (Level 4 Press), and Follow the Sun: Poems, Stories, and Reflections (Aortic Books).

BEACH AUDITORIUM

University Student Union

California State University, Long Beach

1250 Bellflower Boulevard

Long Beach, CA 90840

FREE ADMISSION

Parking available in Lot 16

(Funded in part by the Associated Students, Incorporated, CSU Long Beach, the CSULB English Department, HipPoetics Creative Writing Club, and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies.)

The One Day Poetry Festival

Ron Silliman

2 PM

Beach Auditorium

CSULB

Ron Silliman is internationally recognized as one of most significant and influential poets and commentators on contemporary poetry in the United States. He has written and edited more than a score and a half books, including The Alphabet, Tjanting, and The Age of Huts. His anthology, In the American Tree, remains the most interesting and vital collection of avant-garde poetry since Donald Allen’s New American Poetry. This reading will be his only Los Angeles area appearance in 2012. He has been the recipient of two NEA grant as well as the Levinson Prize from the Poetry Foundation in 2010. His blog  RonSilliman.blogspot.com enters its second decade of daily operation as one of the “must visit” spots on the internet.

More Poets & Poetry

4 PM - 6 PM

TBA

Check back for further details

Sandra Gilbert

7 PM

Beach Auditorium

CSULB

Sandra M. Gilbert is one of America’s foremost poets and also a major voice in literary criticism. She has published eight collections of verse, which have garnered praise and prizes that include the American Book Award (for Kissing the Bread), the Patterson Prize (for Ghost Volcano), The John Ciardi Award for Lifetime Achievement in Poetry, the Premio Lerici Pea Award from the Liguri nel Mondo Association, and several awards from Poetry Magazine. Her most recent work, Aftermath, has been called by former poet laureate Billy Collins a “collection by a virtuoso with heart.” A prolific and highly influential literary critic, Gilbert’s works have become classics in English studies: she is the co-author, with Susan Gubar, of four major works of feminist literary theory, including the ground-breaking Madwoman in the Attic and the three-volume work No Man’s Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century, and she has co-edited, also with Gubar, The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women. A collection of thirty years of her literary critical essays entitled Rereading Women has just been published by Norton.

BEACH AUDITORIUM

University Student Union

California State University, Long Beach

1250 Bellflower Boulevard

Long Beach, CA 90840

FREE ADMISSION

Parking available in Lot 16

(Funded in part by the Associated Students, Incorporated, CSU Long Beach, the CSULB English Department, HipPoetics Creative Writing Club, and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies.)

Did you miss Gary Soto?

Watch his reading at CSULB here

Photos courtesy of Kiki Shaver.

Gary Soto Comes to Long Beach

Gary Soto @ CSULB

Thursday, 1 March 2012

7.30PM

Beach Auditorium

Books will be available for purchase at the reading.

Gary Soto talks about early college experiences:

"Making the News"

Rodrigo Toscano Visits Long Beach

Rodrigo Toscano [video] @ CSULB Art Museum 24 October 2011

Dinner with Suzanne Lummis

Jericho Brown

HipPoetics and CSULB's Creative Writing Department Present:

Poet Jericho Brown at the CSULB
University Student Union in the Beach Auditorium

Thursday, October 6th at 7PM