Thursday March 4th – Poets Catherine Meng & Brian Teare at the Black Box 7:30pm

Catherine Meng has lived in the Bay Area for the past 8 years. She works at a restaurant in Oakland. Her publications include the chapbooks: 15 Poems in Sets of 5 (Anchorite Press), Dokument (Petrichord Press), Lost Notebook w/ Letters to Deer (Dusie Kollectiv), and a full length collection, Tonight’s the Night (Apostrophe Books). She also co-edits the journal Mrs. Maybe with Lauren Levin and Jared Stanley. She went deep-sea fishing once and caught a haddock. Recent work can be found at Realpoetik

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The recipient of National Endowment for the Arts and MacDowell Colony poetry fellowships, Brian Teare is the author of the award-winning debut The Room Where I Was Born and the chapbooks Pilgrim and Transcendental Grammar Crown. His second book, Sight Map, is out from University of California Press; his third, Pleasure, will be published in 2010 by Ahsahta Press. He lives and teaches in San Francisco, where he also makes books by hand for his micropress, Albion Books. Recent work online at Blackbird.

Off-campus at The Black Box Theatre, 452 W. Main St. Merced 7:30 PM

This event is supported by Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from The James Irvine Foundation. A McNair Event.

Spring 2010 Reading Series

2.18 Poet Steven Mayu AKA GFTD1 (Black Box Theatre, 452 W. Main St. Merced)

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3.4 Poets Brian Teare & Catherine Meng (Black Box Theatre, 452 W. Main St. Merced) 7:30 PM

This event is supported by Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from The James Irvine Foundation.

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4.15 Novelist Andrew Altschul (Black Box Theatre, 452 W. Main St. Merced), 7:30 PM

Andrew Altschul is the author of Lady Lazarus (Harcourt, 2008) and the forthcoming novel Deus Ex Machina (Counterpoint Press, 2010). A former music journalist and rock DJ, he is the Books Editor for The Rumpus (therumpus.net) and director for the Center for Literary Arts at San Jose State University.

This event is supported by Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from The James Irvine Foundation.

4.08 Novelist David Bradley (Black Box Theatre, 452 W. Main St. Merced), 7:30 PM

Wednesday April 8th – Poet Barbara Jane Reyes

Barbara Jane Reyes was born in Manila, Philippines, and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She received her BA in Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley and her MFA at San Francisco State University. She is the author of Gravities of Center (Arkipelago Books, 2003) and Poeta en San Francisco (Tinfish Press, 2005), which received the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets. Her third book, entitled Diwata, is forthcoming from BOA Editions, Ltd. in 2010. Her chapbooks, Easter Sunday (2008), Cherry (2008), and West Oakland Sutra for the AK-47 Shooter at 3:00 AM and other Oakland poems (2008) are published by Ypolita Press, Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, and Deep Oakland Editions, respectively. She lives with her husband, poet Oscar Bermeo, in Oakland.

Wednesday, April 8th 7pm
Kolligian Library 355 (The Green Room)
THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, MERCED

March 19th – Poets JAMES SHEA AND CATHERINE THEIS

James Shea is the author of Star in the Eye, winner of the 2008 Fence Modern Poets Series and named by the Chicago Sun-Times as one of its “Favorite Books of 2008.” His poems have appeared in various journals, including American Letters and Commentary, Boston Review, Mrs. Maybe, and Verse. He currently teaches at Columbia College Chicago and DePaul University.

Catherine Theis is the author of the chapbook, The Maybook (Beeswax Press), and a co-author of In Fortune (dusie kollectiv). She has published poems in various journals, including Fence, Court Green, Mrs. Maybe, Columbia Poetry Review, and Gulf Coast. Catherine lives in Chicago, where she works as an editor. She is the recipient of the 2009 Illinois Arts Council Fellowship.

Spring Reading Series

Write! Look! Listen! is now in its actual online home.

Spring 2009 Readers

Lucy Corin (Fiction) – Wed. February 11th

James Shea and Catherine Theis (Poetry) – Thurs. March 19th

Barbara Jane Reyes (Poetry) – Wed., April 8th

Student Reading (Fiction, Poetry, Non-Fiction) – Thurs. April 23rd