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UHV announces authors for spring reading series

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  • Rubi Reyes •
  • Originally published January 5, 2009 at 2:02 a.m., updated January 5, 2009 at 2:02 a.m.

Five authors, ranging from one of the foremost American critics of contemporary poetry to one of the leading voices to emerge from the Chicana experience, will participate in the American Book Review Spring Reading Series.

Marjorie Perloff, Ana Castillo, Michael Martone, John O'Brien and Zulfikar Ghose will attend round table discussions with UHV faculty and students throughout the spring semester.

"The spring semester will feature a world-class group of distinguished authors who are regularly reviewed in the pages of the American Book Review," Jeffrey Di Leo, ABR editor/publisher and dean of the School of Arts & Sciences, said.

Perloff, poetry critic and author, will kick off the spring reading series Jan. 22. She is a professor emerita at Stanford University and is the former president of the Modern Language Association.

Perloff has spent the last semester lecturing at Oxford University.

She is the author of 18 books, including "Differentials: Poetry, Poetics, Pedagogy," which won the Robert Penn Warren Prize for literary criticism in 2005.

Perloff and the four authors will make classroom visits to area schools, give lectures open to the community and go to receptions hosted by Friends of ABR patrons.

Past speakers have included Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David M. Oshinsky, author and Iranian refugee Farnoosh Moshiri, Mexican American author Dagoberto Gilb and American Book Award recipient Graciela Limon.

ABR is a nonprofit, internationally distributed literary journal that is published six times a year.

It began in 1977, moved to UHV in 2007 and now has a circulation of about 8,000.

The journal specializes in reviews of works published by small presses.

  • AMERICAN BOOK REVIEW SPRING READING SERIES

    Jan. 22: Marjorie Perloff

    She is a professor emerita at Stanford University and is the former president of the Modern Language Association. She spent the last semester lecturing at Oxford University. Perloff is ...

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    • AMERICAN BOOK REVIEW SPRING READING SERIES

    Jan. 22: Marjorie Perloff

    She is a professor emerita at Stanford University and is the former president of the Modern Language Association. She spent the last semester lecturing at Oxford University. Perloff is the author of 18 books, including "Differentials: Poetry, Poetics, Pedagogy," which won the Robert Penn Warren Prize for literary criticism in 2005.

    Feb. 19: Michael Martone

    He is the author of eight works of fiction, including "Double-wide: Collected Fiction of Michael Martone," "The Blue Guide to Indiana" and "Michael Martone;" two collections of nonfiction; and six edited volumes. He was awarded the 1998 Association of Writers & Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction for "The Flatness and Other Landscapes."

    March 12: John O'Brien

    He founded the Review of Contemporary Fiction in 1980. Three years later, he established the Dalkey Archive Press, which publishes books of fiction, poetry, criticism and biography. The press's English translation of "Voices from Chernobyl" received the National Book Critics Circle Award in the general nonfiction category.

    April 2: Zulfikar Ghose

    He is a novelist, poet, short-story writer, autobiographer, journalist, educationalist, essayist and literary critic. He was born in Pakistan in 1935, grew up in British India and emigrated to England in 1952. He now lives in Austin. He has published 12 novels, including his most recent, "The Triple Mirror of the Self." He also is the author of two story collections, an autobiography, six volumes of poetry and four books of literary criticism.

    April 30: Ana Castillo

    She is a poet, novelist, short story writer and essayist. Renowned Chicano author Rudolfo Anaya has referred to Castillo as "one of our finest Chicana novelists." Castillo has published numerous books, including "The Mixquiahuala Letters," for which she received the Before Columbia Foundation's American Book Award in 1987. Her most recent work, "The Guardians: A Novel," was published in 2007 and tracks the lives of Mexicans who illegally cross to the U.S. to work.



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