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Friday Seminar with Matthew Zapruder
The Writers Series is presented as part of the MFA Program in Writing
Friday, October 22, 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
Matthew Zapruder is the author of two collections of poetry: American Linden (Tupelo Press, 2002) and The Pajamaist (Copper Canyon, 2006), and was selected by Tony Hoagland as the winner of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. Luxbooks has recently published Der Pyjamaista, a separate German-language graphic novel version of the poem “The Pajamaist,” translated by Ron Winkler and illustrated by Martina Hoffman.
Zapruder is also cotranslator of Secret Weapon (Coffee House Press, 2007), the final collection by the late Romanian poet Eugen Jebeleanu. Zapruder's poems, essays, and translations have appeared (or are forthcoming) in publications such as Open City, Bomb, Harvard Review, Paris Review, The New Republic, The Boston Review, The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, The Believer, and the Los Angeles Times.
His work has appeared (or is forthcoming) in many anthologies, including Third Rail: The Poetry of Rock and Roll, Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century, and Best American Poetry 2009. In fall 2007 he was a Lannan Literary Fellow in Marfa, Texas, and received in 2008 a May Sarton Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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