wednesday, february 5 - thursday, february 13, 2014

Vol. 2, Issue 21

NEWS

Eleven Eleven has released Issue 16!

Some notable alums write articles for KQED Pop. Perhaps you can too! Editor Emmanuel Hapsis (MFAW '09) is looking for writers.

PUBLICATION

Adam Fagin (MFAW '11) has a poem in the latest issue of Boston Review.

Opal Palmer Adisa (MFAW faculty) has a piece about Amiri Baraka on the Huffington Post.

Latasha N. Nevada Diggs (MFAW '08) has a post about La Casita on the Poets & Writers blog.

Lisa Gordon (MFAW '10) has a piece on the Bold Italic about Bob Buckter, color consultant.

Alex Vikmanis (MFAW '10) writes about life without a phone for KQED Pop.

The Featherboard Writing Series posted poems by Chloé Veylit (MFAW '13) here and Steffi Drewes (MFAW '06) here.

Les Gottesman (MFAW '11) has two chapbooks available via Omerta Publications.

MEDIA

An interview Dodie Bellamy (MFAW faculty) gave to the Los Angeles Review of Books' Matias Viegener is now available online.

Marissa Bell Toffoli (MFAW '06) conducts Q&A with writers Brian Marggraf and Colette Freedman for her W3 Sidecar blog; interviews Nick Bantock for her Words With Writers.

ON-CAMPUS

THURS 6: Performance: The Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts presents Donelle Woolford, 7pm at the Wattis, 360 Kansas (SF)

FRI 7: MFAW Writers Series presents Natalie Baszile, 4:30pm in the MFA Writing Writers' Studio, 195 De Haro (SF) MORE INFO / FB Event

WED 12: Launch: Eleven Eleven presents Issue 16 with readings by Brandon Brown, Mary Burger, Cassandra Dallett, D. Scot Miller, 7:30pm in the Writers' Studio, 195 De Haro (SF)

OFF-SITE

2/7: Reading/Launch Party: Salaam, Love: American Muslim Men on Love, Sex & Intimacy, featuring editors Ayesha Mattu & Nura Maznavi, writers Stephen Leeper (MFAW '14), Randy Nasson, Mohammed Shamma, Sam Pierstorff and Ramy Eletreby and comedian/MC Zahra Noorbakhsh, 7pm at CIIS (1453 Mission St, SF) (TICKETS)

2/8: Reading: Featherboard Writing Series featuring John Sakkis, Chris Kerr and Writer-in-Residence Niki Korth, curated by Steffi Drewes (MFAW '06), 5pm at Aggregate Space (801 West Grand Avenue, Oakland)

2/8: Reading: The Other Fabulous Reading Series featuring Dodie Bellamy (MFAW faculty), Donna de la Perrière (MFAW faculty) and Karen Penley, 7-9pm at The Long Haul Infoshop (3124 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley)

2/8: Reading: Live at 851 featuring Rauan Klassnik, Alana Siegel, Steven Seidenberg and TJ Lyons, 8pm at The Squat (849 Haight Street, SF)

2/12: Reading/Release Party: Eleven Eleven Issue #16 Release Party, featuring D.Scott Miller, Brandon Brown and others TBA, 7:30pm at the MFA Writing Writers' Studio (SF)

COMING UP  

2/14: First Draft of Thesis Due to Committee Members

2/16: Small Press Traffic presents Douglas Kearney, Claudia Rankine, Norma Cole hosted by Dana Teen Lomax, 5pm at Artists' Television Access (992 Valencia, SF)

2/21: MFAW Writers Series presents Max Posner, 4:30pm in the MFA Writing Writers' Studio, 195 De Haro (SF) MORE INFO / FB Event

2/21: Reading: MFAW 2nd Student Reading, readers TBA, 6pm at the MFA Writing Writers' Studio (SF)

2/21: Launch: Samizdat Literary Journal with readings by contributors Caroline Goodwin (MFAW faculty), Kimberly Kim (MFAW '11), Melissa Kuhn (MFAW '13), Stephen Leeper (MFAW '15) among others,  6:30pm at Spice Monkey Cafe (1628 Webster, OAK) INFO

2/27: AWP: Anthology, featuring Aimee Phan (MFAW Chair), Alexander Chee, Paul Lisicky, Cari Luna and Vanessa Veselka, 9pm at Sam's Tavern (1024 E Pike St, Seattle)

2/27: Reading: Writing Without Walls: TAINTED LOVE, readers TBA, 7:30pm at Cafe du Soleil (200 Fillmore St, SF)

3/4: Reading/Release Party: Eleven Eleven Issue #16 Release Party, featuring Kate Robinson, Nana Twumasi (MFAW '07), Lewis Ellingham, Kenneth Wong and Emily Meg Weinstein, 7:30pm at City Lights (261 Columbus Avenue at Broadway, SF)

3/7: Reading: MFAW 3rd Student Reading, readers TBA, 6pm at the MFA Writing Writers' Studio (SF)

3/10-14: Thesis Candidacy Review Meetings

3/14: MFAW Writers Series presents Julie Patton, 4:30pm in the MFA Writing Writers' Studio, 195 De Haro (SF)

3/16: Small Press Traffic presents Renee Gladman and Evelyn Reilly, hosted by Joelyn Saidenberg, 5pm at Artists' Television Access (992 Valencia, SF)

3/24-28: SPRING BREAK

4/11: Final Unbound Thesis Due

4/17: MFAW Writers Series presents Akhil Sharma, 4:30pm in the MFA Writing Writers' Studio, 195 De Haro (SF)

4/18: Word.World 2014, thesis readings by students in CCA's MFA Program in Writing, 7pm (SF)

4/24: Graduate Lecture Series presents Anne Carson, 7pm in Timken Lecture Hall (SF) more info

4/25: Word.World 2014, thesis readings by students in CCA's MFA Program in Writing, 7pm (SF)

4/27: Small Press Traffic presents Lisa Robertson and Jeff Derksen, hosted by Dodie Bellamy (MFAW faculty), 5pm at Artists' Television Access (992 Valencia, SF)

5/2: Word.World 2014, thesis readings by students in CCA's MFA Program in Writing, 7pm (SF)

5/5-9: Final Thesis Review Meetings