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APRIL 29 through MAY 2

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DATE

 

DAYTIME

 

EVENING

Apr 29

Craig Santos Perez

Craig Santos Perez

2pm, PVAC (Performing and Visual Arts Center

 

 

Apr 30

KB Brookins

KB Brookins

12:30pm, PVAC

New Voices

New Voices

7pm, Rm. 26-220

May 1

Carolina Hotchandani

Carolina Hotchandani

2pm, PVAC

Sara Marchant

Sara Marchant

6:30pm, PVAC

May 2

Why Literature Matters

Why Literature Matters

12:30pm, Library Living Room (Rm. 70-162)
   

MONDAY, APRIL 29

2-3:20 PM • Performance & Visual Arts Center (PVAC) 

poet CRAIG SANTOS PEREZ

in collaboration with the Ethnic Studies Ethnic, Gender, Social Justice Program (EGSJ) and the Asian Pacific Islander Committee (API)

author portrait: Craig Santos PerezDr. Craig Santos Perez is a native CHamoru from the Pacific Island of Guåhan (Guam). He is the co-founder of Ala Press, co-editor of three anthologies of Pacific Literature, and the author of two spoken word poetry albums, and five books of poetry: from unincorporated territory [hacha] (2008), from unincorporated territory [saina] (2010), from unincorporated territory [guma’] (2014), from unincorporated territory [lukao] (2017), and Habitat Threshold (2020). Craig is a Professor in the English Department at the University of Hawai’i, Mānoa, where he teaches creative writing, eco-poetry, and Pacific literature.

Resources

author's website: craigsantosperez.com

Academy of American Poets: poets.org/poet/craig-santos-perez

X (Twitter): /craigsperez 

Wikipedia: wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Santos_Perez

Books

from unincorporated territory [hacha] (Reprint, Omnidawn Publishing, 2017)

from unincorporated territory [saina] (Omnidawn Publishing, 2010),

from unincorporated territory [guma’] (Omnidawn Publishing, 2014),

from unincorporated territory [lukao] (Omnidawn Publishing, 2017)

from unincorporated territory [amat] (Omnidawn Publishing, 2023)

Habitat Threshold (Omnidawn Publishing, 2020)

Preterrain (Corollary Press, 2008)

from Preterrain (Big Game Books, 2007)

Constellations Gathered Along the Ecliptic (Shadowbox Press, 2007)

All With Ocean Views (Overhere Press, 2007)

Spoken Word Digital Albums

Undercurrent (Hawai’i Dub Machine, 2011)

Crosscurrent (independently published via Bandcamp, 2017)

Selected Interviews

Lycurgus, Cate. “Shape-shifting Nostalgia Across the ‘Va’: An Interview with Craig Santos Perez.” 32 Poems, vol. 15, no. 2 (Fall/Winter 2017). https://32poems.com/prose/shape-shifting-nostalgia-across-the-va-an-interview-with-craig-santos-perez-by-cate-lycurgus/

 

Magrane, Eric. “Inscriptions of Power Upon the Land: Craig Santos Perez and Eric Magrane in Conversation.” Terrain, Nov. 11, 2020. https://www.terrain.org/2020/interviews/craig-santos-perez-eric-magrane/ 

 

Perez, Jason Magabo. “Poetic Archives as Ethnic Studies: An Interview with Dr. Craig Santos Perez.” Ploughshares, Feb.12, 2019. https://blog.pshares.org/poetic-archives-as-ethnic-studies-an-interview-with-dr-craig-santos-perez/

 

Vizzo, Emily. “Imagining a More ‘Tender Country’: A Conversation with Craig Santos Perez.” World Literature Today, Autumn 2019. https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2019/autumn/imagining-more-tender-country-conversation-craig-santos-perez-emily-vizzo

 

“War, Migration and the Environment.” Smithsonian Asian Pacific Center, Apr./May 2020. https://apa.si.edu/learn/learn-archives/04-2020/ 

Selected Works by the Author

from aerial roots [off-island chamorros]. Poems. North Dakota Quarterly, Nov. 19, 2020. https://ndquarterly.org/2020/11/19/poetry-from-craig-santos-perez/ 

 

“Between the Diagnosis and the Death.” Poem. With poet Declan Fry. Red Room Poetry, May 2022. https://redroompoetry.org/poets/declan-fry/between-diagnosis-and-death/

 

“ECL (English as a Colonial Language, an abecedarian)” and “The Zen of Spam.” Poems. The Rumpus, Jan. 9, 2020. https://therumpus.net/2020/01/09/rumpus-original-poetry-two-poems-by-craig-santos-perez/

 

“Guam and Literary Activism.” Essay. World Literature Today, Autumn 2019. https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2019/autumn/guam-and-literary-activism-craig-santos-perez

 

“Off-Island Chamorros.” Poem. Craig Santos Perrez, Jul. 25, 2017. https://craigsantosperez.wordpress.com/2017/07/25/off-island-chamorros/ 

Selected Media

"Praise Song for Oceania." The Georgia Review, Apr. 20, 2020.

 

"Craig Santos Perez—'Spam's Carbon Footprint.' " Splitthisrock, Sep. 2, 2016.

 

"Craig Santos Perez Reads from preterrain • National Poetry Library." Southbank Centre, Jul. 26, 2012.

 


TUESDAY, APRIL 30

12:30-1:50 PM • PVAC

poet & memoirist KB BROOKINS

author portrait: KB BrookinsKB Brookins is a Black queer and trans writer, cultural worker, and artist from Texas. KB’s chapbook, How To Identify Yourself with a Wound, won the Saguaro Poetry Prize, a Writer’s League of Texas Discovery Prize, and an ALA Stonewall Honor Book Award. Their debut poetry collection, Freedom House, was called “urgent and timely” by Vogue and won the ALA Barbara Gittings Literature Award for Poetry. KB’s debut memoir, Pretty, releases on May 28, 2024 with Alfred A. Knopf. Follow them online: @earthtokb.

Resources

author's website: earthtokb.com 

Facebook: facebook.com/earthtokb 

Poetry Foundation: poetryfoundation.org/poets/k-b-brookins

X (Twitter): /earthtokb 

Wikipedia: wikipedia.org/wiki/KB_Brookins 

Books

How To Identify Yourself with a Wound (Kallisto Gaia Press, 2021)

Freedom House (Deep Vellum, 2023) 

Pretty: A Memoir (Knopf, 2024)

Selected Reviews

Hendrix, Raye. “Freedom House by KB Brookins.” Barrelhouse, Jun. 2023. https://www.barrelhousemag.com/blog/hendrix-brookins-freedom-house 

 

Hill, Chaney. “Freedom House Imagines a House for All.” Southern Review of Books, Apr. 12, 2023. https://southernreviewofbooks.com/2023/04/12/freedom-house-kb-brookins-review/

 

Keith, Njera. “Poetry Review: How to Identify Yourself with a Wound.” Medium, Jan 24, 2022. https://medium.com/@njerakeith/poetry-review-how-to-identify-yourself-with-a-wound-efb9f4f41297

 

Smith, Gabriella. “Overwhelming in the Best Way.” Deep South Magazine, Apr. 21, 2023. https://deepsouthmag.com/2023/04/21/overwhelming-in-the-best-way/ 

 

Stephens, Ronnie K. “How To Identify Yourself with A Wound — KB (Kallisto Press).” The Poetry Question, Jan. 4, 2022. https://thepoetryquestion.com/2022/01/04/review-how-to-identify-yourself-with-a-wound-kb-kallisto-gaia-press/

 

Yurcaba, Nicole. “Unapologetic Optimism and Transformation: A Review of KB Brookins’s Freedom House.” Sage Cigarettes Magazine, Jun. 8, 2023. https://www.sagecigarettes.com/?p=2907 

Selected Poems by the Author

“& Somehow, Men Are Nicer to Me Now.” American Poetry Review, vol. 51, no. 02. https://aprweb.org/poems/somehow-men-are-nicer-to-me-now 

 

“MissYouSo_FrankOcean.mp3.” Honey Literary, no. 6 (2023). https://www.honeyliterary.com/issue-6-/valentines-missyousofrankoceanmp3-kb-brookins

 

“The pickup comes at 6am” and “I take my therapists suggestion & correct ‘worrying’ to ‘caring.’ ” The Hellebore, no. 7. https://thehellebore.com/kb/ 

 

“Shot #2.” ANMLY, no. 23 (Spring 2021). https://anmly.org/ap32/kb/ 

 

“Shot #7.” Beestung Magazine, no. 7 (Spring 2021). https://beestungmag.com/issue07/one-poem-by-kb/ 

Selected Media

"Dear Poet 2023: KB Brookins Reads 'Good Grief.' " Poets.org, Dec. 7, 2022.

 

"KB Brookins — How To Identify Yourself With a Wound (2012)." Write About Now, Sep. 4, 2022. 

 

 

7:00-8:30 PM • Bldg. 26, Rm. 220

NEW VOICES student reading

New Voices student readingIn this consistently crowd-pleasing semesterly event, standout students from this semester’s Creative Writing Program courses and workshops take the mic to perform their original works of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, drama, and hybrid forms. Learn more about the Grossmont College Creative Writing Program at grossmont.edu/cwp.

 


WEDNESDAY, MAY 1

2-3:20 PM • PVAC 

poet CAROLINA HOTCHANDANI

author portrait: Carolina HotchandaniCarolina Hotchandani is a poet and Goodrich Assistant Professor of English and American literature and culture. Her debut poetry collection, The Book Eaters, won the Perugia Press Prize for first and second poetry books and was released September 2023. The Book Eaters was featured in Poets and Writers Magazine‘s 2024 Debut Poets issue. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in The Atlantic, AGNI, AQR, Beloit Poetry Journal, Cincinnati Review, The Missouri Review, Poetry Northwest, Prairie Schooner, and Smartish Pace, among other journals.

Resources

author's website: carolinahotchandani.com 

Instagram: instagram.com/carolinahotchandani 

Perugia Press: perugiapress.org/2024/01/carolina-hotchandani

X (Twitter): /CHotchandani 

Poets & Writers: pw.org/content/the_book_eaters_by_carolina_hotchandani 

Books

The Book Eaters (Perugia Press, 2023)

Selected Reviews

Kronenberg, Mindy. “The Book Eaters by Carolina Hotchandani.” Mom Egg Review, Oct. 30, 2023. https://merliterary.com/2023/10/30/the-book-eaters-by-carolina-hotchandani/ 

 

Peseroff, Joyce. “On The Book Eaters, poetry by Carolina Hotchandani.” On the Seawall, Nov. 7, 2023. https://www.ronslate.com/on-the-book-eaters-poetry-by-carolina-hotchandani/

Selected Poems by the Author

“Archipelago.” Blackbird, Summer 2023. https://blackbird-archive.vcu.edu/v21n3/poetry/hotchandani-c/archipelago-page.shtml

 

“Blueprints” and “A Cord to Bind Us.” Diode Poetry Journal, Summer 2023. http://diodepoetry.com/hotchandani_carolina/ 

 

“Eternal Pistachios.” Poetry Northwest, Summer/Fall 2023. https://carolinahotchandani.files.wordpress.com/2023/08/eternal-pistachios.pdf

 

“Somehow History.” Blackbird, Summer 2023. https://blackbird-archive.vcu.edu/v21n3/poetry/hotchandani-c/history-page.shtml 

Selected Media

"Poetry at The Dalí (Carolina Hotchandani." The Dalí Museum, Nov. 9, 2023.

 

"The Book Eaters Launch w/ Jennifer Sweeney, Lynne Thompson, Catherine Barnett & Carolina Hotchandani." Perugia Press, Oct. 18, 2023.

 

 

6:30-7:50 PM • PVAC 

novelist & essayist SARA MARCHANT

author portrait: Sara MarchantSara Marchant received her Master of Fine Arts from the University of California, Riverside/Palm Desert. She is the author of The Driveway Has Two Sides, published by Fairlight Books. Her memoir, Proof of Loss, was published by Otis Books. Her latest novel, Becoming Delilah, was published in August 2023 and her essay, “Haunted,” was a Notable Mention in Best American Essays and Nonfiction 2021. Sara is a founding editor of the literary magazine, Writers Resist.

Resources

author's website: thesaramarchant.com 

Instagram: instagram.com/carolinahotchandani 

Writers Resist: writersresist.com

X (Twitter): /thesaramarchant 

Poets & Writers: pw.org/content/the_book_eaters_by_carolina_hotchandani 

Books

Becoming Delilah (Fairlight Books, 2023)

Proof of Loss (Otis Books Seismicity Editions 2019)

The Driveway Has Two Sides (Fairlight, 2018)

Writers Resist: The Anthology (Running Wild Press, 2018)

“Proof of Blood” in All the Women in My Family Sing (Nothing But The Truth Publishing, 2018)

“Let Me Go” in Running Wild Novella Anthology (Running Wild Press, 2017)

Selected Reviews and Interviews

Canseco, Gianluca. “Interview with Becoming Delilah author, Sara Marchant.” The Talon (MSJC Student News), Aug. 18, 2023. https://msjctalonnews.com/7865/arts/interview-with-becoming-delilah-author-sara-marchant/

 

Flatau, Seb. “Becoming Delilah.” Review. Foreword, May/June 2023. https://www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/becoming-delilah/ 

 

Glass, Shannon. “TCR Talks with Sara Marchant, author of Becoming Delilah.” The Coachella Review, Oct. 10, 2023. http://thecoachellareview.com/2023/10/10/tcr-talks-with-sara-marchant-author-of-becoming-delilah/ 

Kamal, Soniah. “Drunk on Ink: Q & A with Sara Marchant and The Driveway Has Two Sides.” Interview. Jaggery, Jul. 20, 2018. https://jaggerylit.com/2018/07/20/drunk-on-ink-q-a-with-sara-marchant-and-the-driveway-has-two-sides/ 

“Sara Marchant: Interview.” Fairlight Books, Jun. 15, 2023. https://www.fairlightbooks.co.uk/author-interview-sara-marchant/ 

Selected Works by the Author

“Drunk Driving in Barbie City.” Nonfiction. The Kelp Journal, Dec. 15, 2023. https://www.kelpjournal.com/post/essay-drunk-driving-in-barbie-city 

 

“Memory Loss.” Nonfiction. East Jasmine Review, Jun. 8, 2017. http://eastjasminereview.com/2017/06/marchant-memory-loss/ 

 

“People, Continued.” Fiction. Jewish Fiction .net, no. 20 (March 2018). https://jewishfiction.net/index.php/publisher/articleview/frmArticleID/551 

Selected Media

"714: Sara Marchant, Writer." Make That Paper Podcast, May 23, 2023.

 

"Becoming Delilah, Chapter 1." Bookwire, Nov. 17, 2023.

 


THURSDAY, MAY 2

12:30-1:50 PM • Library Living Room (Bldg. 70, Rm. 162) 

WHY LITERATURE MATTERS student panel

hosted by Julie Cardenas and Alan Traylor

Literature Program logoThis annual, student-favorite event features a panel of Grossmont College students and faculty sharing moving and powerful personal accounts of the role literature has played in their journeys, advocating the relevance of literature and its potential to inspire change, cultivate humanity, and serve us in, both, personal and global ways. Learn more about Grossmont College’s English degrees and workshops at grossmont.edu/english.