CCA Events
Claudia Rankine and Sarah Rosenthal
Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center Event
Friday, November 16, 2007, 7:30 pm
Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco campus
Info: 415.551.9278 or www.sptraffic.org
$5–10 sliding scale, free to current Small Press Traffic members and to the CCA community.
Claudia Rankine is the author of four collections of poetry, including Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric (Graywolf Press, 2004), an experimental project blending poetry, essays, and images. The poet Robert Creely described it as "an extraordinary melding of means to effect the most articulate and moving testament to the bleak times we live in I've yet seen." Rankine's work has been published in the Boston Review, Jubilat, the Kenyon Review, TriQuarterly, and many other journals.
Sarah Rosenthal's cross-genre book Manhatten (Spuyten Duyvil, forthcoming) was shortlisted for the Starcherone Fiction Prize. The writer Juliana Spahr comments, "This is not the mythic Manhattan of bright lights and glitz. . . . Sarah Rosenthal layers headlong, voice-driven prose with silent, otherly poems to tell a story of an island where relationships are disturbed yet meaningful and luminous." Rosenthal's chapbooks include How I Wrote This Story (Margin to Margin, 2001), sitings (a+bend, 2000), and not-chicago (Melodeon, 1998).
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