Pacific Review Series of Open Mics and Visiting Writers All events in Pfau Library Room 4005 from 6-8 p.m. Inspiration, fun, community! *Thursday, Oct. 9 - Open Mic fiction and poetry *Thursday, Oct. 30 - Open Mic fiction and poetry Thursday, Nov. 6 - Legendary writers Jerome Rothenberg & Merrill Feitell Tuesday, Nov. 18 - Denver poet David J. Daniels Monday, Nov. 24 - Najavo Poet Sherwin Bitsui *Thursday, Dec. 4 - Open Mic fiction and poetry *At the open mic nights you will hear the world-class talent that we have on our own campus. Come to share your work and to listen to your classmates! Nov 6: Legendary poet and editor, JEROME ROTHENBERG, has published over 70 books. Charles Bernstein writes: “The significance of Jerome Rothenberg’s animating spirit looms larger every year… he brings an unbridled exuberance and an innovator’s insistence on transforming a given state of affairs. Nov 6: MERRILL FEITELL’s first book of short stories, Here Beneath Low-Flying Planes, won the Iowa Award for Short Fiction. Her stories haveappeared wideley in top literary journals and have been short-listed in Best American Short Stories and The O. Henry Awards. She is the flash fiction editor of Forklift Magazine and is currently a visiting professor of creative writing at CSUSB. Nov 18: Denver poet DAVID DANIELS brilliant debut poetry book, Clean, won the Four Way Books Intro Prize. He is Poetry Editor of Pebble Lake Review and teaches at the University of Denver. His poetry has appeared widely, including in Best of the Net 2012, Kenyon Review and Pleiades. Nov 24: Navajo Poet Sherwin Bitsui, a Diné (Navajo) from the Navajo Reservation in White Cone, is the author of two award winning poetry books: Flood Song (Copper Canyon) and Shapeshift (University of Arizona Press). Steeped in Native American culture, mythology, and history, Bitsui’s poems reveal the tensions in the intersection of Native American and contemporary urban culture. His poems are imagistic, surreal, and rich with details of the landscape of the Southwest. J. Chad Sweeney, Ph.D. Undergraduate Coordinator, Creative Writing Director, Pacific Review Literary Journal Assistant Professor, English Department Office: UH 401.09
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