This spring quarter will feature eight contemporary writers who explore the knotted spaces and generative possibilities of entangled lives. Their works illuminate the historical enmeshment of cruel futures and hidden histories, persons and things, race and freedom, kinship and loss, and the human and non-human natural world.
April 12: Sherwin Bitsui
April 26: Leif Haven, Jared Harvey
May 3: Courtney Kersten
May 17: Carmen Gimenez Smith and giovanni singleton
May 24: Sawako Nakayasu
May 31: Robin Coste Lewis
June 7: UCSC Creative Writing Program, Undergraduate Student Reading
Humanities Lecture Hall, 206
Thursdays, 5:20-6:50 PM
All Readings are Free and Open to the Public
Contact: Chris Chen (cche75@ucsc.edu)
This event is co-sponsored by the Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Endowment, American Indian Resource Center, El Centro, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center, Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment, the Chicano Latino Research Center, Cowell College, Bay Tree Bookstore, the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth M. Puknat Literary Series Endowment, the Literature Department, and the Creative Writing Program.
