Date: Thursday, October 8,2009
Time: 7 p.m. (reception follows)
Place: Madden Library
Henry Madden Library
Library Auditorium, Room 2206
(2nd floor, South Wing)
Free to all. Seating is limited! Call 278-2403 for more information.
The Madden Library and the Fresno Poets’ Association* present a poetry reading by Juan Felipe Herrera.
Juan Felipe Herrera has published 24 volumes of poetry, prose, theatre, children’s books, and young adult novels. He received the National Book Critics Circle Award for his 2008 poetry collection, Half of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems. Among his other award-winning books are Downtown Boy, Calling the Doves, Crashboomlove, and Featherless/Desplumado. Herrera holds the Tomás Rivera Endowed Chair in the Department of Creative Writing at UC Riverside, and is Associate Professor Emeritus of Chicano and Latin American Studies at Fresno State.
*The Fresno Poets’ Association is now a formal program of Fresno State in conjunction with the Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing. For more information, please call the Library Dean’s Office at 278-2403.
SAVE THESE DATES for future poetry readings in the Madden Library:
Joe Stroud, November 19; Dixie Salazar & Jon Vineberg, Feb. 25, 2010; and Philip Levine, April 8, 2010.
Monday, October 5, 2009
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