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Friday Seminar with Andrew Joron
The Writers Series is presented as part of the MFA Program in Writing
Friday, October 1, 2010, 3:30–5 pm
Writers’ Studio, San Francisco campus
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Info: Email Teresa Walsh at twalsh@cca.edu or 415.551.9237
Free and open to the public
Born in San Antonio in 1955, Andrew Joron grew up in Stuttgart, Germany; Lowell, Massachusetts; and Missoula, Montana. Adept at multiple genres such as experimental poetry, prose poems, and essays, Joron is the author of Trance Archive: New and Selected Poems (City Lights, 2010). Joron’s earlier poetry collections include The Removes (Hard Press, 1999), Fathom (Black Square Editions, 2003), and The Sound Mirror (Flood Editions, 2008).
The Cry at Zero, a selection of his prose poems and critical essays, was published by Counterpath Press in 2007. He is also the translator of German Marxist-Utopian philosopher Ernst Bloch's Literary Essays (Stanford University Press, 1998). Joron has won the Rhysling Award three times for Best Long Poem in 1980 and 1986, and for Best Short Poem in 1978; and the Gertrude Stein Award twice, in 1996 and 2006.
He lives in Berkeley, where he works as a freelance bibliographer and indexer.
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