Extra Credit
To Be Announced throughout the semester
Attend Writing Center Workshops
Attend a visiting author's lecture and write a half page summarizing the experience.
| Mark Doty Tuesday & Wednesday, February 24 & 25 2008 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER! Mark Doty's Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems, won the National Book Award for Poetry in 2008. His eight books of poems include School of the Arts, Source, and My Alexandria. He has also published four volumes of nonfiction prose: Still Life with Oysters and Lemon, Heaven's Coast, Firebird and Dog Years, which was a New York Times bestseller in 2007. Tuesday, 2/24, 3 pm: Mt. Pleasant High School 7 pm: Reading and book-signing, Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, 2nd floor rooms 225-229 Wednesday, 2/25, 1:30 pm: Conversation with author and partner Paul Lisicky, Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, 2nd floor rooms 225-229 |
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| Sandra Gilbert Wednesday, April 15 Poet and author of Kissing the Bread: New & Selected Poems, 1969-1999; Inventions of Farewell: A Book of Elegies; Wrongful Death: A Memoir. 1:30: Conversation, Q&A, and book-signing. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, 2nd floor rooms 225-229 7:30: Reading and book-signing. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, 2nd floor rooms 225-229 TBD: Mt. Pleasant High School |
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| Lurie Distinguished Professor
The Lurie Distinguished Professor in Creative Writing, established through the generosity of Connie and Robert Lurie, has brought a distinguished author to teach at SJSU for one semester each year. |
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Tuesday, March 3, 2009 Aimee Bender is the author of two short story collections, Willful Creatures and The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, and a novel, An Invisible Sign of My Own. Her fiction has appeared in publications including Granta, GQ, Harper's, Tin House, McSweeney's and The Paris Review. 3 PM: Mt. Pleasant High School 7 PM: Reading, Q&A, and book-signing. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, 2nd floor rooms 225-229 |
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Hayan Charara Wednesday, March 18, 2009 Hayan Charara is the author of two collections of poetry, The Sadness of Others and The Alchemist’s Diary, and the editor of Inclined to Speak: An Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry. Born in Detroit, Michigan, to immigrant parents, he currently lives in Texas. Fady Joudah Fady Joudah is the author of the poetry collection The Earth in the Attic, winner of the 2007 Yale Younger Poets Award, and translator of Mahmoud Darwish’s The Butterfly’s Burden (Copper Canyon Press). A member of Doctors Without Borders since 2001, Joudah lives in Houston, Texas, where he is an emergency-room physician at Houston's Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center. 7 PM: Reading, Q&A, and book-signing. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, 2nd floor rooms 225-229 |
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 Thaddeus Rutkowski Tuesday, April 7, 2009 Thaddeus Rutkowski is the author of the novels Tetched (Behler Publications) and Roughhouse (Kaya Press). His stories have appeared in publications including American Letters and Commentary, CutBank, Hayden's Ferry Review, The Laurel Review and Pleiades. He is a one-time winner of the Poetry Versus Comedy slam at the Bowery Poetry Club, the Syracuse poetry slam, and the Nuyorican Poets Café Friday slam. Marc Pinate Marc is a SJSU Professor in Theatre Arts and national winner of the 1999 poetry slam. 1:30 PM: Poetry Slam! The Hal Todd Theatre at Hugh Gillis Hall |
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Read Henry Potty and the Pet Rock: The Unauthorized Harry Potter Parody