It became its own narrative, its own body of work. While looking overĪnd revisiting her writing on the subject Finley gathered the writing and realized that New York City, Karen Finley was invited to participate in the exhibit.
Wednesday, 4/2 Karen Finley: Written in Sand Collected Aids Writings with musical accompaniment by Paul Nebenzahl 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe presented by: the Feminism/s series rsvp: or call 215-746-POEMįor Visual Aids 25th anniversary, curated by Sur Rodney Sur in Oakland, where he is an editor at Wave Books and a new member of theĬore Faculty at the MFA in creative writing at St. The recipient of a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship, he lives in Winner of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society ofĪmerica, and by Library Journal as one of the top ten poetry volumes ofĢ006. His second collection, The Pajamaist, was chosen by Tony Hoagland as the The 2010 Booklist Editors' Choice for poetry, and the 2010 NorthernĬalifornia Independent Booksellers Association poetry book of the year. Recent book, Come On All You Ghosts (Copper Canyon, 2010), was selectedĪs one of the year's top 5 poetry books by Publishers Weekly, as well as Sun Bear, forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press in spring 2014. Matthew Zapruder is the author of four collections of poetry, including A poetry reading by Matt Zapruder 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe co-sponsored by: the Creative Writing program watch: a video recording of this event via KWH-TV listen: to an audio recording of this event Boyle was inducted into the American Academy of ArtsĪnd Letters in 2009. Selected for Best American Stories his novel World's End was a National Book Award finalist and the PEN/FaulknerĪward for best novel of the year. He has received many awards for his writing: several of his stories have been But only if you'reĪ writer." Boyle's work such as Tortilla Curtain also usesįiction to explore social activism, on issues of immigration, race, environmentalism and Take trigonometry, why do I have to take this or that? and your teacher says, Well,Įverything you know will be good for you in future life-it's true. On this topic, Boyle says in a 2000 Paris Review interview: "When you're a kid in school and you One of Boyle's narrators might be faced with. Astronomy, math, culinaryĮxpertise, a chimpanzee hiding in the back bedroom, one never quite knows what elements The scope of what his short stories and novels might contain. The "maximalist" label is fitting not just at the level of a Boyle sentence, but for Institution, finally moving to California where he is now professor of creative writingĪnd English at the University of Southern California. Of Iowa Writers Workshop and a PhD in nineteenth-century British literature at the same Writing career as an undergrad at SUNY Potsdam, then completed an MFA at the University Boyle himself has lived and written in some of these places, as he started his United States, to Mexico, to rural inland settings, to Alaska, to small islands, to the His short stories and novels bring readers to both coasts of the The way his rich prose stands in contrast to a more fashionable minimalism, is an author Boyle, often referred to as a "maximalist" writer for Boyle Kelly Writers Houseįellows Program 10:00 AM in the Arts Cafe RSVP required: watch: a video recording of this event via KWH-TV listen: to an audio recording of this event