MAR. 3, 2009 - Aimee Bender

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

MAR. 12, 2009 - Four Minutes of Mayhem Reading

MAR. 16, 2009 - Poetry Reading at Morocco's

Featuring Rachelle Escamilla (returning to San Jose from the Univ. of Pittsburgh MFA program) and others from the SJSU MFA program, including Mark Heinlein, Dave Kern, Shannon Bowman-Sarkasian, and Goldilocks. Plus an evening-long open mike.

7 PM: Morocco's Restaurant 86 N. Market Street, San Jose.

MAR. 18, 2009 - Hayan Charara & Fady Joudah

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 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

APR. 7, 2009 - Thaddeus Rutkowski & Marc Pinate

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 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

APR. 15, 2009 - Sandra Gilbert

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

APR. 17, 2009 - SJSU Creative Writing Awards

Past Events

NOV. 12 – 20, 2008 - Creative Writing Week
Presented by SJSU Department of English and Comparative Literature & The Poets & Writers Coalition

• NOV. 12: English Department Career Fair
  Learn about all the career opportunities open to English grads and creative writers
  
• NOV. 12 & NOV. 13: PWC Book Fair
  
• NOV.12: Umnuhum Room, S.U. 12 p.m. – 5 p.m.
  
• NOV. 13: Seventh Street Barbecue Pit 12 p.m. – 5 p.m.
  Get bargains on books new and used
  
• NOV. 12: Four Minutes of Mayhem
  6 p.m. – 8 p.m. at the Market Café
  You have four minutes to wrack your mayhem!
  Join us for an open-mic reading free-for-all
  
• NOV.16: Nils Peterson 75th Birthday Reading
  2 p.m. Empire Fire House in History Park, 1650
  Emeritus English faculty member will his read poetry,sponsored by Poetry Center San Jose
  
• NOV. 17: PWC Bowling with Writers
  7 p.m. – 10 p.m. Student Union (lower level)
  Take a break! Bowl with fellow students and faculty.
  
• NOV. 17 & Nov. 18: Steinbeck Center Tour
  1:30 p.m. King Library
  View an extensive collection of Steinbeck memorabilia!
  
• NOV.18: Nick Taylor Reading
  12 p.m. Schiro Room, 5th Floor, MLK Jr. Library
  Professor Nick Taylor will read from his first novel as part of the University Scholars Series
  
• NOV. 19 Creative Writing B.A. Launch Party
  5 p.m. - 7 p.m. Schiro Room, 5th Floor of King Library
  Free pizza and soda!
  ENGL 71, B A and MFA workshop students invited
  
• NOV. 19: Terrence McNally Lecture
  1:30 p.m. Onstage Q & A in the University Theater
  7:30 p.m. Book reading and signing
  
• NOV. 20 Cannery Row: A Celebration & Exploration
  King Library Center for Steinbeck Studies, 5th Floor
  Three Steinbeck scholars will talk about Cannery Row:
  Susan Shillinglaw from 12 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.
  Michael Hemp from 1:30 – 2:30 p.m.
  A.L. “Scrap” Lundy from 2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.