下午2点•吉尔·索图/学生诗歌大满贯
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This event is supported in part by a grant it has received from WACC, the World Arts
and Cultures Committee of Grossmont大学.
The 25th Anniversary LAF kicks off with the annual Student SLAM competition. Open to all Grossmont大学 students, poets battle for the bragging rights of being crowned the Grand SLAM champion of Grossmont大学. Limited to 12 participants, the top six are selected to advance to Round Two, from which a champion is named.
图片来源©Gill Sotu

教师和社会倡导者吉尔国情咨文 is 2006 Grand Slam Poetry Champion of Ventura County and a three-time winner of the Borders Poetry Slam and has been named 2012 and 2013 San Diego Raw Performing Artist of the Year. He facilitates poetry workshops within San Diego County’s juvenile detention center and teaches Shakespeare to inmates in a maximum security prison. Sotu serves as teaching artist for the Old Globe Theatre, Program director for Intrepid theatre, and Creative Director for TEDx San Diego. He was named 2020 Artist in Residence for the Gainesville Creative Forces Art Summit after completing an Artist In Residency at the Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation. Featured on NBC 7's艺术脉冲电视在美国,Sotu主持/策划了SD ArtWalk的诗歌舞台和新灵魂星期二 在NBC 7频道播出 艺术脉冲电视为梅利莎·阿道的舞蹈剧场表演创作并表演诗歌片段, 嘻哈CabHooray ! (awarded Outstanding Production at the 2015 Fringe Fest), performed with the San Diego Symphony, and hosted TEDx San Diego in 2017. His spoken word opera, 普通的魔法,于2016年在琼·克罗克剧院制作。
Sotu也出现在KUSI和CBS新闻考虑一下, a show created, curated, hosted, and performed by Sotu, himself; additionally, he was akeynote presenter at the Washington State Creative Forces Summit and opened at the San Diego Writers Festival for《女子监狱》(作者:皮尔·克尔曼)。
他的出版作品包括如何爱上帝和杂技演员,新怀旧主义,有缺陷的美国男人,以及其他.
| Sotu, Gill和Jerrica Escoto。 如何爱神和杂技演员。 (2014) | ![]() |
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最好的告别。 吉尔·索图(Gill Sotu)撰写。 帕特里克·凯利导演。 (2016) |
| Sotu, Gill和Aaron Evans。 运动:打破,建立,成为 (吉尔·索图,2013) | ![]() |
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Neo怀旧 (吉尔·索图2016) |
| 大象的心(外传)。 (吉尔·索图2008) | ![]() |
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有缺陷的美国男人 (慈溪数码唱片2010) |
照片©吉姆•罗兰照片信贷:克莱尔 麦卡利斯特

Novelist, rock memoirist, punk rock blogger, and host of the 害虫 Mount reading series,吉姆·罗兰 回到LAF阅读他新发布的作品《做》 你想要什么 (Hachette Books 2020), the first official autobiography of the ground-breaking L.A. punk group, Bad Religion, on which Ruland collaborated to compose a hybrid oral history/narrative using the voices of the band members. The book also includes rare, never-before-seen archival materials. 《出版人周刊》 说 做你想做的 "serves up a heady, revelatory collaboration": "Readers will appreciate Ruland’s thorough reporting and insight on the various lineup changes over the years, along with his convincing analysis of punk history…." Adam Lawton of 媒体话筒 给罗兰的传记打了四颗星:做你想做的事:坏宗教的故事 is not just another warts and all band biography. Fans of the band will certainly enjoy hearing the full history of the band, which until now has never completely been shared. If you are looking for another tale of the cliché sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll, then this is not the book for you. Yes, those topics are talked about—however, not to the extent other books of similar format have. Instead, the focus (as it should be) is on the members themselves and their sheer determination to make great music."
Ruland launched the 2018 Literary Arts Festival with a reading from his newly launched debut novel, 幸运森林(Gallery Books 2014), a noir-ish ironic comedy set in the world of a failing tribal gaming palace. The book was named by 洛杉矶杂志as one of its "Six Must-Read Books to Finish Out the Summer" and the《洛杉矶时报书评praises the novel for not being "not your average casino story: ghosts, legends, and mystery darken and curl at its edges. Desperation and the humor in desperation run amok."
罗兰的其他作品包括短篇小说集,大的寂寞(戈尔斯基出版社2017年出版),以及两本合著的非虚构作品:我的伤害(DaCapo Press 2016)和竖中指(Lyons Press 2014). As an article writer, Ruland regularly blogs on the subject of punk rock for the indie nonprofit magazine,Razorcake,为体育,赌博和赌场文化撰写每月专栏Eephus他是英国《金融时报》的书评人圣地亚哥城市日报,洛杉矶时报,和《洛杉矶书评》他的回忆录和小说发表在各种杂志上,包括《信徒》、《时尚先生》、《格兰塔》、《霍巴特》和《牛津美国人》和其他人。
A U.S. Navy veteran,a NEA award recipient, anda member of the Golondrina arts collective in Barrio Logan,Jim Ruland hasfor the past fourteen years run害虫山,aSouthern California-based reading series praised for being irreverent and controversial.Boasting its humble beginnings at a Chinatown bar, the highly praised山上的害虫continues to showcase a variety of established and rising talents, including Amelia Gray, Jami Attenberg, Scott O’Connor, and many others.
吉姆·罗兰目前生活和工作在圣地亚哥。
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做 你想要什么:坏宗教的故事。 阿歇特出版社2020年。 ISBN: 978 - 0306922220 |
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幸运森林。 画廊图书,2014年。 ISBN: 978 - 1440579899。 |
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大的寂寞。 戈尔斯基出版社,2005年。 ISBN: 978 - 0975396438。 |
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坎贝尔,斯科特和吉姆·罗兰。竖起中指:冒着一切危险在世界上最致命的海洋捕鱼。 里昂出版社,2014。 ISBN: 978 - 0762791316。 |
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莫里斯,基思和吉姆·罗兰。我的伤害:一个朋克摇滚幸存者的故事。 达卡波出版社,2016。 ISBN: 978 - 0306824067。 |
“’回家ward Bound’ by Jim Ruland.” Posted 23 January 2015 by So Say We All. Duration: 00:08:14. [video] youtu。be / quTGKkAU7xo
“Jim Ruland reads ‘Horror Show’ at UCSD's Gillman Theater.” Posted 19 October 2010 by So Say We All. Duration: 00:06:14. [video]https://youtu。be/6bbeXzaPRXw
“Jim Ruland Reading ‘Dutch Harbor Nights’ at Skylight Books.” Posted by RazorcakeGorsky on 1 July 2013. Duration: 00:06:33. youtu。be / sxzrGDsj_h4