April 12, 2007 :: No. 172
| What: |
In celebration of National Poetry Month, Asian Pacific American Heritage Month and National Library Week, Cal State Fullerton is hosting “Peace, Poetry and the World,” with readings by poets Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Majid Naficy and Ilya Kaminsky. |
| When: |
April 25
Noon to 1 p.m. readings by Shirley Geok-lin Lim
2 to 3 p.m. readings by Majid Naficy
5 to 6 p.m. readings by Ilya Kaminsky
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| Where: |
Cal State Fullerton Pollak Library
Rotary Club of Fullerton Room |
| Cost: |
Free of charge and open to the public |
| About the Poets: |
Lim is an English professor at UC Santa Barbara. She is the author of “Nationalism and Literature” (1993), “Writing South/East Asia in English: Against the Grain” (1994), “Among the White Moon Faces: An Asian-American Memoir of Homelands” (1996) and “Joss and Gold” (2001). She also has served as editor of scholarly works, including “Transnational Asian American Literature: Sites and Transits” (2006).
Naficy’s first collection of poems in Persian, “In the Tiger’s Skin,” was published in 1969. A year later, he published “Poetry as a Structure.” In 1971, he wrote a children’s book, “The Secret of Words,” which won a national award in Iran.
After the 1979 revolution, more than 10 of his relatives, including his first wife, Ezzat Tabaian, and brother Sa’id were executed. He fled Iran in 1983 and spent nearly two years in Turkey and France. Majid then settled in Los Angeles, where he lives with his son, Azad. He has since published eight collections of poems.
Kaminsky, an assistant professor of creative writing at San Diego State University, is the author of “Dancing In Odessa” (2004), winner of the Whiting Writer’s Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Metcalf Award, the Dorset Prize and the Ruth Lilly Fellowship, awarded by Poetry magazine. |
| Media Contacts: |
Jie Tian, CSUF Librarian, 657-278-2569 or jtian@fullerton.edu
Mimi Ko Cruz, Public Affairs, 657-278-7586 or mkocruz@fullerton.edu |
