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Reading by Cooley Windsor and Stephen Ajay
Presented as part of CCA's Hearsay Reading Series
Tuesday, March 9, 2010, 7:30 pm
Nahl Hall, Oakland campus
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In Cooley Windsor’s latest fiction collection, Visit Me in California, the Last Israelite finds it difficult to keep up with Moses and eventually stumbles into the wall of water of the Red Sea. "I'm going to drown," he realizes. "What an awful fate for a desert dweller."
This is not the only great story with which Windsor toys. Homer brags to a bartender that his father told him he'd never make money as a poet. Medusa awaits Perseus's slaying, fretting over what to tell her snakes. Lot regrets not gazing back across Sodom as it was destroyed.
Windsor's writings have been featured in numerous publications. He is codirector of the annual Meant to Be Seen Festival at the Eureka Theater in San Francisco. He was a founding board member of Bayview Hunter's Point Community Advocates, an environmental justice organization focused on the southeast section of San Francisco. His monologue "Sova, a Courtesan" was adapted into a ballet in February by the choreographer Emily Keeler. He has received the Ernest Hemingway award and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, and he has been an artist in residence at Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, California. He teaches in CCA's MFA Program in Writing.
Stephen Ajay is a poet whose collections include Abracadabra and The Whales Are Burning, both by New Rivers Press.
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