Wednesday, November 14, 2012

wednesday, november 14 - thursday, november 22


Vol. 1, Issue 11
wednesday, november 14 - thursday, november 22


PUBLICATIONS

Les Gottesman (MFAW alum) announces his new chapbook, "Misuses of Poetry and other poems",  released from Finishing Line Press. Order a copy of the chapbook HERE.

Twerk, a new book of poetry by Latasha N. Nevada Diggs (MFAW alum), will be published by Belladonna* Books in February 2013.


ON-CAMPUS

WED 14: IMPACT Social Entrepreneurship Award Information Session, 5 - 6pm in Timken Reception Area (SF)

WED 14: Notes from the Studio: Sally Elesby, 4pm in The Drawing Room (SF)

WED 14: Film Program's Cinema Visionaries series: Barbara Hammer, 7 - 9pm in Timken (SF)

THU 15: Q&A with Magazine Editors, 1:30 - 2:30pm in the Writers Studio [CCA students only] (SF) 


THU 15: TA Applications Due [CCA students only] (SF)

FRI 16: WRITERS SERIES/FRIDAY SEMINAR: Faith Adiele (MFAW faculty), author of Meeting Faith, 3:30pm – 5:00pm, in the Writers Studio (SF)

FRI 16: MFAW STUDENT READING, readers TBD, 5:30 - 7:30pm in the Writers Studio (SF)

TUE 20: HEARSAY: Senior Reading and Literary Festival, 7:30pm in Nahl Hall (OAK)

THU 22 - FRI 23: THANKSGIVING BREAK


OFF-SITE

WED 14: 30th Issue of New American Writing celebration with readings by Marco Lean, Ben Black, Scott Lambridis, Shruti Swamy, Peter Orner, Laura Walker, Richard O. Moore, Joseph Lease (MFAW faculty), and Paul Hoover, 3 - 4:30pm at the Poetry Center at SFSU (HUM 512 1600 Holloway Ave, SF)

THU 15: Anita Amirrezvani (MFAW faculty) at Lafayette Library and Community Center (3491 Mt. Diablo Boulevard, Lafayette, CA)

THU 15: "Listen for Peace," a visual art, literary, and music benefit for Emergency USA, Faith Adiele (MFAW faculty), and others TBA, 5:30 - 7:30pm, San Francisco Main Library, SF Francisco

THU 15: Reading: coordinated by Erin Ginder-Shaw (MFAW '13), 6:30pm at Dogpatch Wineworks (2455 3rd Street, San Francisco)

THU 15: Book Launch and Reading: Iron, first book by Zarina Zabrisky (Eleven Eleven #13), 7:30pm at Pegasus Books Downtown (2349 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley)

FRI 16: Reading: Lorenzo Herrera y Lozano, 5:30pm at BAM/PFA Reading Room (Room 2575 Bancroft Way, Berkeley) (Tickets $7)

FRI 16: Co-Launch Party for Beeswax Magazine [co-founded by Laureen Mahler (MFAW alum)] and Monday Night [co-founded by Jessica Wickens (MFAW alum)] with readings by Hugh Behm-Steinberg (MFAW faculty), Diana Aehegma, Sean Craven, and Valerie Witte, 7pm at Diesel (5433 College Ave, OAK)

FRI 16: Book Launch and Reading: Iron, first book by Zarina Zabrisky (Eleven Eleven, #13), 7pm at Viracocha (998 Valencia Street, SF)

MON 19: Reading: Anita Amirrezvani (MFAW faculty) at Dr. Martin Luther King, 7pm at Jr. Main Library (1 Washington Square, 225/229, 2nd Floor, San Jose)



ON GOING

November is National Novel Writing Month! Register and challenge yourself Nov. 1-30th.

"Original Weather: 1 Artist and 8 Poets" with work by Robert Tomlinson and Laura LeHew (MFAW '03) among others at Grants Pass Musuem of Art, Grants Pass, OR (through November 16)


COMING UP

11/28: Notes from the Studio: Terri Friedman, 4pm in The Drawing Room (SF)

11/28: Fourteen Hills: The SFSU Review Release Party for the 2012 MRBA Fiction Winner Stoyan Vassilev, at The Booksmith (1644 Haight Street, SF)

11/29: Peter Orner in Conversation with Michelle Richmond (former MFAW faculty), 7:30pm at the Booksmith (SF)

11/30: Writing for Image (Grad Fine Arts class) Reading, 6:00pm in the Writers Studio (SF)

12/1: Alice Notley at the Unitarian Center

12/2: Tim Trace Peterson, J/J Hastain, Monica Peck at ATA

12/5: Notes from the Studio: Danielle Lawrence, 4pm in The Drawing Room (SF)

12/7: Sam Sax, 5:30 at BAM/PFA Reading Room

12/14: LAST DAY OF THE FALL SEMESTER

12/14: MFAW STUDENT READING

12/16: "iduna: an opera in one act" libretto by kari edwards, arranged and conducted by Tom Comitta (MFAW alum)

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