The annual Fall Reading Series (a.k.a., Fall Authors Series) presents a season of events celebrating literature, showcasing award-winning authors, and honoring the inspiration to write. Events are sponsored by the 英语系 and Creative Writing Program of Grossmont大学, as well as a variety of other campus agencies and programs.
9月15日星期四
诗人詹姆斯·米泽
下午7:00，海德美术馆（25号楼）
Poet and songwriter James Meetze received the Poet Laureate Award from the University
of California in 2001. Meetze's chapbooks--情歌 （Cy出版社2003）， 仪器 （海羔羊出版社2004） 它的开销 （2007）——为他的第一本诗集的出版铺平了道路，
这是我为你设计的 （Editions assemblies）出版，2010年他的第二部作品集， 奇异的 (Ahsahta Press), was bestowed the prestigious 2010 Sawtooth Poetry Prize. Meetze,
who is currently a Lecturer in the 创意写作计划 at California State University,
San Marcos, co-founded the now defunct poetry movement, New Brutalism, and helped
to launch Tougher Disguises in 2002, a small press whose roster of experimental poets
includes Peter Gizzi and Clark Coolidge, among others. James Meetze is also front-man
for the alternative rock band, Dreamtiger, which released its EP, 闪耀2008年。
周四,September29
禁书阅读庆祝活动
下午7:00,150室（34栋）
Join Joe Medina of the Grossmont大学 英语系 for an evening of school
and scandal with a CELEBRATION OF BANNED BOOKS, in honor of National Banned Books
Week. Topics change annually in this thought-provoking and sometimes audacious event.
Topics from past years have included Sandra Cisneros, Susan Patron, Langston Hughes,
James Joyce, Sherman Alexie, Erica Jong, J.K. Rowling, Lenny Bruce, Toni Morrison,
Alice Walker, Dorothy Allison, banned children's literature, controversial fan fiction
and slash, censored anime and manga, and many others. The 2011 reading will include
students, community members and faculty.
周三,October12
小说作家克里斯·马扎
下午12:30,220室（26号楼）
Widely anthologized Southern California native Cris Mazza has published nine novels,
a collection of essays, and four collections of short fiction. Her writing is heralded
as an example of post-feminist, formalist or contemporary experimental fiction. She
is responsible, along with Jeffrey DeShell, for coining the now commonly used term,
"chick lit."
Mazza won the PEN / Nelson Algren Award for her novel How to Leave a Country. In addition,
she was recipient to an &NOW Award in 2009 for her story “Trickle-Down Timeline” (published
in The &NOW Awards: The Best Innovative Writing in 2009) and has participated in the
biennial &NOW Festival. Currently, she directs the Program for Writers at the University
of Illinois, Chicago.
周三,October19
贾斯汀·哈德纳尔表演火人的肖像
第三届莱斯特·邦斯纪念读书会
下午7点，220室（26栋）
Faculty, alumni writers, and guests read their original works of poetry, fiction and
creative nonfiction, while paying tribute to Grossmont大学 alumnus Lester A. Bangs,
who has come into recognition as “America’s Greatest Rock Critic.”
Considered one of the most influential voices in rock criticism, music critic Bangs is credited for coining the term "punk," and his subversive spirit and creativity continue to influence generations of writers.
10月24日星期一
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11月2日星期三
庆祝
亨丽埃塔·拉克斯不朽的一生
Information about events, times and venues, available on the GC Henrietta Lacks Resource Center.
周一,November14
作者Lidia Yuknavitch
晚上7点，220室（26号楼）
除了她的批判书， 暴力寓言 （Routledge 2000）， Lidia Yuknavitch写了三个短篇小说集： 卷轴到卷轴 (FC2 2002), 自由的过度 （FC2 2000），以及 她的其他嘴巴 (House of Bones Press 1997). Her writing has appeared in a variety of literary journals,
including Postmodern Culture, Fiction International, Another Chicago Magazine, Zyzzyva, Critical
Matrix, Other Voices, 并被选集 代表双性恋 （纽约大学出版社1996）和 第三次浪潮议程 （明尼苏达大学出版社，1997）。
曾担任…的联合编辑 西北边缘：越轨小说 作为 两个女孩的评论， 约克纳维奇现在在俄勒冈州教授小说写作和文学。
周二,12月安贝6
新声音：一个学生的阅读
晚上7点，220室（26号楼）
新声音：一个学生的阅读, features standout students from the Grossmont大学
创意写作计划's current semester of courses, reading their original short
fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, novel excerpts, drama, and mixed media literary
works. Refreshments and desserts, made possible by a generous grant from WACC (World
Arts and Cultures Committee).
学生读者包括
卡洛琳·巴德
布雷迪卡西欧
玛丽安·s·约翰逊
艾丽卡直言不讳
Tamaria del b里约热内卢
蒂莫西·b·狄金森
露西Palmer-Richeson
凯特瑞白
卡斯(merrill Lynch)
瓦塞尔香农
Shonna Gillis
科里Hadaway
亚历克斯·j·伍顿