APRIL 29 through MAY 2
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Apr 29 |
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Craig Santos Perez2pm, PVAC (Performing and Visual Arts Center |
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Apr 30 |
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KB Brookins12:30pm, PVAC |
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New Voices7pm, Rm. 26-220 |
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May 1 |
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Carolina Hotchandani2pm, PVAC |
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Sara Marchant6:30pm, PVAC |
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May 2 |
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Why Literature Matters12:30pm, Library Living Room (Rm. 70-162) |
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MONDAY, APRIL 29
2-3:20 PM 鈥 Performance & Visual Arts Center (PVAC)
poet CRAIG SANTOS PEREZ
in collaboration with the Ethnic Studies Ethnic, Gender, Social Justice Program (EGSJ) and the Asian Pacific Islander Committee (API)
Dr. Craig Santos Perez is a native CHamoru from the Pacific Island of Gu氓han (Guam).
He is the co-founder of Ala Press, co-editor of three anthologies of Pacific Literature,
and the author of two spoken word poetry albums, and five books of poetry: from unincorporated territory [hacha] (2008), from unincorporated territory [saina] (2010), from unincorporated territory [guma鈥橾 (2014), from unincorporated territory [lukao] (2017), and Habitat Threshold (2020). Craig is a Professor in the English Department at the University of Hawai鈥檌,
M膩noa, where he teaches creative writing, eco-poetry, and Pacific literature.
Resources
author's website:
Academy of American Poets:
X (Twitter): /craigsperez
Wikipedia:
Books
from unincorporated territory [hacha] (Reprint, Omnidawn Publishing, 2017)
from unincorporated territory [saina] (Omnidawn Publishing, 2010),
from unincorporated territory [guma鈥橾 (Omnidawn Publishing, 2014),
from unincorporated territory [lukao] (Omnidawn Publishing, 2017)
from unincorporated territory [amat] (Omnidawn Publishing, 2023)
Habitat Threshold (Omnidawn Publishing, 2020)
Preterrain (Corollary Press, 2008)
from Preterrain (Big Game Books, 2007)
Constellations Gathered Along the Ecliptic (Shadowbox Press, 2007)
All With Ocean Views (Overhere Press, 2007)
Spoken Word Digital Albums
Undercurrent (Hawai鈥檌 Dub Machine, 2011)
Crosscurrent (independently published via Bandcamp, 2017)
Selected Interviews
Lycurgus, Cate. 鈥淪hape-shifting Nostalgia Across the 鈥榁a鈥: An Interview with Craig Santos Perez.鈥 32 Poems, vol. 15, no. 2 (Fall/Winter 2017).
Magrane, Eric. 鈥淚nscriptions of Power Upon the Land: Craig Santos Perez and Eric Magrane in Conversation.鈥 Terrain, Nov. 11, 2020.
Perez, Jason Magabo. 鈥淧oetic Archives as Ethnic Studies: An Interview with Dr. Craig Santos Perez.鈥 Ploughshares, Feb.12, 2019.
Vizzo, Emily. 鈥淚magining a More 鈥楾ender Country鈥: A Conversation with Craig Santos Perez.鈥 World Literature Today, Autumn 2019.
鈥淲ar, Migration and the Environment.鈥 Smithsonian Asian Pacific Center, Apr./May 2020.
Selected Works by the Author
from aerial roots [off-island chamorros]. Poems. North Dakota Quarterly, Nov. 19, 2020.
鈥淏etween the Diagnosis and the Death.鈥 Poem. With poet Declan Fry. Red Room Poetry, May 2022.
鈥淓CL (English as a Colonial Language, an abecedarian)鈥 and 鈥淭he Zen of Spam.鈥 Poems. The Rumpus, Jan. 9, 2020.
鈥淕uam and Literary Activism.鈥 Essay. World Literature Today, Autumn 2019.
鈥淥ff-Island Chamorros.鈥 Poem. Craig Santos Perrez, Jul. 25, 2017.
Selected Media
"Praise Song for Oceania." The Georgia Review, Apr. 20, 2020.
"Craig Santos Perez鈥'Spam's Carbon Footprint.' " Splitthisrock, Sep. 2, 2016.
"Craig Santos Perez Reads from preterrain 鈥 National Poetry Library." Southbank Centre, Jul. 26, 2012.
TUESDAY, APRIL 30
12:30-1:50 PM 鈥 PVAC
poet & memoirist KB BROOKINS
KB Brookins is a Black queer and trans writer, cultural worker, and artist from Texas.
KB鈥檚 chapbook, How To Identify Yourself with a Wound, won the Saguaro Poetry Prize, a Writer鈥檚 League of Texas Discovery Prize, and an
ALA Stonewall Honor Book Award. Their debut poetry collection, Freedom House, was called 鈥渦rgent and timely鈥 by Vogue and won the ALA Barbara Gittings Literature Award for Poetry. KB鈥檚 debut memoir,
Pretty, releases on May 28, 2024 with Alfred A. Knopf. Follow them online: @earthtokb.
Resources
author's website:
Facebook:
Poetry Foundation:
X (Twitter): /earthtokb
Wikipedia:
Books
How To Identify Yourself with a Wound (Kallisto Gaia Press, 2021)
Freedom House (Deep Vellum, 2023)
Pretty: A Memoir (Knopf, 2024)
Selected Reviews
Hendrix, Raye. 鈥Freedom House by KB Brookins.鈥 Barrelhouse, Jun. 2023.
Hill, Chaney. 鈥Freedom House Imagines a House for All.鈥 Southern Review of Books, Apr. 12, 2023.
Keith, Njera. 鈥淧oetry Review: How to Identify Yourself with a Wound.鈥 Medium, Jan 24, 2022.
Smith, Gabriella. 鈥淥verwhelming in the Best Way.鈥 Deep South Magazine, Apr. 21, 2023.
Stephens, Ronnie K. 鈥How To Identify Yourself with A Wound 鈥 KB (Kallisto Press).鈥 The Poetry Question, Jan. 4, 2022.
Yurcaba, Nicole. 鈥淯napologetic Optimism and Transformation: A Review of KB Brookins鈥檚 Freedom House.鈥 Sage Cigarettes Magazine, Jun. 8, 2023.
Selected Poems by the Author
鈥& Somehow, Men Are Nicer to Me Now.鈥 American Poetry Review, vol. 51, no. 02.
鈥淢颈蝉蝉驰辞耻厂辞冲贵谤补苍办翱肠别补苍.尘辫3.鈥 Honey Literary, no. 6 (2023).
鈥淭he pickup comes at 6am鈥 and 鈥淚 take my therapists suggestion & correct 鈥榳orrying鈥 to 鈥榗aring.鈥 鈥 The Hellebore, no. 7.
鈥淪hot #2.鈥 ANMLY, no. 23 (Spring 2021).
鈥淪hot #7.鈥 Beestung Magazine, no. 7 (Spring 2021).
Selected Media
"Dear Poet 2023: KB Brookins Reads 'Good Grief.' " Poets.org, Dec. 7, 2022.
"KB Brookins 鈥 How To Identify Yourself With a Wound (2012)." Write About Now, Sep. 4, 2022.
7:00-8:30 PM 鈥 Bldg. 26, Rm. 220
NEW VOICES student reading
In this consistently crowd-pleasing semesterly event, standout students from this
semester鈥檚 Creative Writing Program courses and workshops take the mic to perform
their original works of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, drama, and hybrid forms. Learn
more about the 小优传媒 Creative Writing Program at grossmont.edu/cwp.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 1
2-3:20 PM 鈥 PVAC
poet CAROLINA HOTCHANDANI
Carolina Hotchandani is a poet and Goodrich Assistant Professor of English and American
literature and culture. Her debut poetry collection, The Book Eaters, won the Perugia Press Prize for first and second poetry books and was released September
2023. The Book Eaters was featured in Poets and Writers Magazine鈥榮 2024 Debut Poets issue. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in The Atlantic, AGNI, AQR, Beloit Poetry Journal, Cincinnati Review, The Missouri Review,
Poetry Northwest, Prairie Schooner, and Smartish Pace, among other journals.
Resources
author's website:
Instagram:
Perugia Press:
X (Twitter): /CHotchandani
Poets & Writers:
Books
The Book Eaters (Perugia Press, 2023)
Selected Reviews
Kronenberg, Mindy. 鈥The Book Eaters by Carolina Hotchandani.鈥 Mom Egg Review, Oct. 30, 2023.
Peseroff, Joyce. 鈥淥n The Book Eaters, poetry by Carolina Hotchandani.鈥 On the Seawall, Nov. 7, 2023.
Selected Poems by the Author
鈥淎谤肠丑颈辫别濒补驳辞.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Blackbird, Summer 2023.
鈥淏lueprints鈥 and 鈥淎 Cord to Bind Us.鈥 Diode Poetry Journal, Summer 2023.
鈥淓ternal Pistachios.鈥 Poetry Northwest, Summer/Fall 2023.
鈥淪omehow History.鈥 Blackbird, Summer 2023.
Selected Media
"Poetry at The Dal铆 (Carolina Hotchandani." The Dal铆 Museum, Nov. 9, 2023.
"The Book Eaters Launch w/ Jennifer Sweeney, Lynne Thompson, Catherine Barnett & Carolina Hotchandani." Perugia Press, Oct. 18, 2023.
6:30-7:50 PM 鈥 PVAC
novelist & essayist SARA MARCHANT
Sara Marchant received her Master of Fine Arts from the University of California,
Riverside/Palm Desert. She is the author of The Driveway Has Two Sides, published by Fairlight Books. Her memoir, Proof of Loss, was published by Otis Books. Her latest novel, Becoming Delilah, was published in August 2023 and her essay, 鈥淗aunted,鈥 was a Notable Mention in
Best American Essays and Nonfiction 2021. Sara is a founding editor of the literary
magazine, Writers Resist.
Resources
author's website:
Instagram:
Writers Resist:
X (Twitter): /thesaramarchant
Poets & Writers:
Books
Becoming Delilah (Fairlight Books, 2023)
Proof of Loss (Otis Books Seismicity Editions 2019)
The Driveway Has Two Sides (Fairlight, 2018)
Writers Resist: The Anthology (Running Wild Press, 2018)
鈥淧roof of Blood鈥 in All the Women in My Family Sing (Nothing But The Truth Publishing, 2018)
鈥淟et Me Go鈥 in Running Wild Novella Anthology (Running Wild Press, 2017)
Selected Reviews and Interviews
Canseco, Gianluca. 鈥淚nterview with Becoming Delilah author, Sara Marchant.鈥 The Talon (MSJC Student News), Aug. 18, 2023.
Flatau, Seb. 鈥Becoming Delilah.鈥 Review. Foreword, May/June 2023.
Glass, Shannon. 鈥TCR Talks with Sara Marchant, author of Becoming Delilah.鈥 The Coachella Review, Oct. 10, 2023.
Kamal, Soniah. 鈥淒runk on Ink: Q & A with Sara Marchant and The Driveway Has Two Sides.鈥 Interview. Jaggery, Jul. 20, 2018.
鈥淪ara Marchant: Interview.鈥 Fairlight Books, Jun. 15, 2023.
Selected Works by the Author
鈥淒runk Driving in Barbie City.鈥 Nonfiction. The Kelp Journal, Dec. 15, 2023.
鈥淢emory Loss.鈥 Nonfiction. East Jasmine Review, Jun. 8, 2017.
鈥淧eople, Continued.鈥 Fiction. Jewish Fiction .net, no. 20 (March 2018).
Selected Media
"714: Sara Marchant, Writer." Make That Paper Podcast, May 23, 2023.
"Becoming Delilah, Chapter 1." Bookwire, Nov. 17, 2023.
THURSDAY, MAY 2
12:30-1:50 PM 鈥 Library Living Room (Bldg. 70, Rm. 162)
WHY LITERATURE MATTERS student panel
hosted by Julie Cardenas and Alan Traylor
This annual, student-favorite event features a panel of 小优传媒 students
and faculty sharing moving and powerful personal accounts of the role literature has
played in their journeys, advocating the relevance of literature and its potential
to inspire change, cultivate humanity, and serve us in, both, personal and global
ways. Learn more about 小优传媒鈥檚 English degrees and workshops at grossmont.edu/english.