Wow, wish I could be there. But...
I know it will be a great one, Rachel.
Doug
On 27-Sep-10, at 7:50 AM, Rachel Loden wrote:
> If you're in San Diego and environs, please come. . . .
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> New Writing Series presents:
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> A reading by Rachel Loden
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> Wednesday, October 6
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> 4:30 pm
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> Visual Arts Performance Space
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> UC San Diego
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> Free
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> Sponsored by the Dean, Arts & Humanities Division and the Department
> of
> Literature
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> http://literature.ucsd.edu/news/currentevents/writingseries.html
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> Rachel Loden is the author of Dick of the Dead (Ahsahta Press), a
> finalist
> for both the 2010 PEN USA Literary Award for Poetry and the
> California Book
> Award. It was also one of the three most-cited books in Attention
> Span 2009
> ("a collectively-drawn map of the field"), landing on lists by Rae
> Armantrout and others. The Washington Post's "Poet's Choice" column
> featured
> a poem from the book and it has been called "oddly sublime" and
> "intoxicating" by the Poetry Project Newsletter and "expansive and
> whimsical" by the Brooklyn Rail. Loden's first book, Hotel Imperium
> (Georgia), won the Contemporary Poetry Series competition and was
> selected
> as one of the ten best poetry books of the year by the San Francisco
> Chronicle, which called it "quirky and beguiling." It was also short-
> listed
> for the Northern California Book Award. Loden has published four
> chapbooks,
> including The Last Campaign (which won the Hudson Valley Writers'
> Center
> chapbook competition) and The Richard Nixon Snow Globe (Wild Honey
> Press).
> Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in New American Writing, Lana
> Turner: A Journal of Poetry and Opinion, two editions of the Best
> American
> Poetry series, Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry, and many other
> magazines and anthologies. Loden's microplay, "A Quaker Meeting in
> Yorba
> Linda," was performed in New York as part of Plays on Words: A Poets
> Theater
> Festival curated by Tony Torn, Lee Ann Brown and Corina Copp. She is
> the
> recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a Fellowship in Poetry from the
> California
> Arts Council, an &NOW Award, and a grant from the Fund for Poetry.
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Douglas Barbour
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