wednesday, august 13 - thursday, august 21, 2014

Vol. 2, Issue 45

NEWS

Congratulations to Hazel White (MFAW '05) and Denise Newman (MFAW faculty)! They were awarded a Creative Work Fund grant to make a poetry installation and transmedia project in the UC Berkeley Botanical Gardens.

PUBLICATION

Eliiot Harmon (MFAW '06) has a piece, "Alternate Endings to 'I Hope You Dance'" up on McSweeney's Lists.

Alex Vikmanis (MFAW '10) has a piece, "Coffee" on the Newer York.

KQED Pop's Emmanuel Hapsis (MFAW '09) with Beyonce / Jay-Z divorce or… , Outside Lands 2014, and Lauren Bacall.

MEDIA

Find Kevin Killian (MFAW faculty) interviewed by Andrew Blackley for 3:AM Magazine.

Matthew Jent (MFAW '09) interviewed Ben Costa (MFAW '09) for The Beat.

Be sure to check out this interview with Opal Palmer Adisa (MFAW faculty) conducted by devorah major (BA faculty), former San Francisco Poet Laureate.

Kate Robards (MFAW '16) and her one-woman comedy performance, "Mandarin Orange" was recently given a shout-out in the Washington Post as part of the Capital Fringe Festival.

ON-CAMPUS

summer's almost over

OFF-SITE

SAT 16: Performance: Vijay Iyer & Mike Ladd "Holding It Down: The Veterans' Dreams Project" including LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs (MFAW '08), 5:30pm at Jazz Middelheim, Main Stage, Belgium TICKETS

TUE 19: Reading: Red Hen Press presents LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs (MFAW '08), Douglas Kearney, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Andrea Scarpino, 7pm at Word for Word, Bryant Reading Room, 42 St. & 5th Ave, New York, NY 10110 more info

WED 20: Info Session: Southern Exposure presents Alternative Exposure Grant Info Session #2, 6:30 - 8pm at Aggregate Space (801 W. Grand Ave, Oakland) FB Event

COMING UP  

8/24: Reading: Subterranean Poetry Festival with LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs (MFAW '08), Brenda Coultas, Todd Colby, Cecilia Vicuña, hosted by Edwin Torres, 1 - 4pm at The Widow Jane Mine, Century House Historical Society, 668 Route 213, Rosendale, NY 12472

8/25: BRIDGE WEEK: Tour of the Neighborhood, 4pm at the Writers' Studio

8/26: New Student Orientation, 3 - 5pm, Writers Studio

8/28: BRIDGE WEEK: Faculty Talk followed by a Student Reading Open Mic, 4pm in the Writers Studio

8/28: Reading: Writing Without Walls: When I Was Young with Fia Maxwell, Calvin Fantone, Pam Benjamin, William Taylor, Jr., Jonathan Downer, Fred Dodsworth, Youssef Alaoui-Fdili, 7:30pm at Cafe du Soleil (200 Fillmore, SF)

8/29: BRIDGE WEEK: Eleven Eleven mailing party

8/30: Reading: Bay Area Poetry Marathon curated Donna de la Perrière (MFAW faculty) with Megan Breiseth, Trevor Calvert, Natalie Catasús (MFAW '14/MA '15), Norma Cole, Gillian Conoley,Owen Hill, Andrew Joron, Kevin Killian (MFAW faculty), Ben Mirov, Nora Toomey (MFAW '14), 7pm at The Emerald Tablet (80 Fresno, SF) FB Event

8/31: BRIDGE WEEK: Golden Gate Park Meet-Up, 1pm

9/1: LABOR DAY: Campus Closed

9/8: Info Session: Southern Exposure presents Alternative Exposure Grant Info Session #3, 6:30 - 8pm at Southern Exposure (3030 20th St., SF) FB Event

9/12: Reading: MFA Program in Writing presents the Writers Series with Monica Wesolowska, 4:30pm in the Writers Studio (195 De Haro, SF)

9/19: Reading: MFA Program in Writing presents the Writers Series with Matthew Zapruder, 4:30pm in the Writers Studio (195 De Haro, SF)

9/26: Reading: MFA Program in Writing presents the Writers Series with Ru Freeman, 4:30pm in the Writers Studio (195 De Haro, SF)

9/26 - 27: CCA Alumni Association presents 2014 CCA Alumni Weekend, activities on both the OAK and SF campus. more info

9/27: Reading: Bay Area Poetry Marathon presents 100 Thousand Poets For Change curated by Donna de la Perrière (MFAW faculty) with Dodie Bellamy (MFAW faculty), Natalie Catasús (MFAW '14/MA '15), Maxine Chernoff, Johnny Hernandez, Kevin Killian (MFAW faculty), Monica Storss, Sunnylyn Thibodeaux, 7pm at The Emerald Tablet (80 Fresno, SF)

10/3: Reading: MFA Program in Writing presents the Writers Series with Ben Lerner, 4:30pm in the Writers Studio (195 De Haro, SF)

10/14: Reading: LITQUAKE presents California College of the Arts, MFA Program in Writing with Opal Palmer Adisa (MFAW faculty), Jordan Karnes (MFAW '12), Vernon Keeve III (MFAW '13), Kevin Killian (MFAW faculty), and Laura Schadler (MFAW '07) at the Make-Out Room (3225 22nd Street, SF)

10/17: Reading: MFA Program in Writing presents the Writers Series with Andrew Sean Greer, 6:00pm in Timken Lecture Hall (1111 8th Street, SF)

10/24: Reading: MFA Program in Writing presents the Writers Series with David Lida, 4:30pm in the Writers Studio (195 De Haro, SF)

10/31: Reading: MFA Program in Writing presents the Writers Series with Miranda Mellis, 4:30pm in the Writers Studio (195 De Haro, SF)

10/31: Reading: Fright Night III, readers TBD, 6:00pm in the Writers Studio (195 De Haro, SF)

11/7: Reading: MFA Program in Writing presents the Writers Series with Michelle Richmond, 4:30pm in the Writers Studio (195 De Haro, SF)

11/14: Reading: MFA Program in Writing presents the Writers Series with Julia Fierro, 4:30pm in the Writers Studio (195 De Haro, SF)

11/21: Reading: MFA Program in Writing presents the Writers Series with Brock Clarke, 4:30pm in the Writers Studio (195 De Haro, SF)

11/27-28: THANKSGIVING BREAK