Doug Rice Exhibit & Reading: Dec 2 @ CSUS Else Gallery
Exploring the interface between visual and verbal expression, Design Professor Nigel Poor and English Professor Doug Rice will display their works Nov. 15-Dec. 9 in the Else Gallery in Kadema Hall. Gallery hours are noon-4:30 p.m. Monday through Wednesday and Friday. Poor will give a talk at 5 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 18, and a reception … Read more
Peter Grandbois’ Arsenic Lobster Release Party at The Urban Hive
For weeks now, I’ve been looking forward to and dreading the release party for Peter Grandbois’ newest book, ‘Arsenic Lobster: A Hybrid Memoir.’ Sure, I’m excited to catch up with colleagues who I haven’t seen since graduation in May, but I’m not looking forward to toting along my six-week old son to the event. Picture upset crying during the middle of the reading.
Peter Grandbois’s The Arsenic Lobster: A Hybrid Memoir – Release Party
Peter Grandbois’s The Arsenic Lobster: A Hybrid Memoir – Release Party Wednesday, 30 September 2009 18:00 – 23:00 The Urban Hive 1931 H. St Sacramento, CA 916-585-HIVE Price: FREE Spuyten Duyvil presents ‘The Arsenic Lobster: A Hybrid Memoir’ by Peter Grandbois. Come out and meet the rising star of the literary scene, Peter Grandbois (author … Read more
Brad Buchanan Reading at Luna’s Cafe: June 25th at 8pm
CSUS Professor of English, Brad Buchanan, will be performing poems from his most recent book, “Swimming the Mirror: Poems for My Daughter” on Thursday, June 25th at 8pm at Luna’s Cafe 1414 16th Street Sacramento. California He will also be reading some newer poems about parenthood and his recently acquired US citizenship. This will be … Read more
Creation Myth Revised – Another Draft of My Novel
Just last Thursday, I submitted another draft of my novel to Doug Rice. It felt wrong to blog when I was supposed to be “writing like the Dickens.” In any case, now I can breathe a little before he gets back to me with feedback. My last meeting with Rice, which followed my Collective Reading … Read more
Classes End But Conrad Lives On
Two days ago. It’s my last class of the semester. Possibly the last class of my graduate career. Next semester, I won’t be taking any classes–only working on my novel. I’m swinging my car into a parking space. Parking after 4:30 in the faculty lots is permitted, but I feel privileged, because this semester, I’m … Read more
Intermission: Writing Short Fiction With Doug Rice
On Monday, I had my last English 230A class with Doug Rice. Sad, though I am, I’ll be working with Rice for my 500 project, so it’s not the end. He did give us one assignment over Winter break: Read one good book, slowly (the adverb aside). I considered James Joyce‘s Ulysses, but I flipped … Read more
UAW Local 4123 Student Workers Strike Postponed
Never underestimate the power of solidarity. What’s that saying? The students united, will never be defeated! The following update was posted on the UAW Local 4123 website: STRIKE POSTPONED: SENATE PRESIDENT STEINBERG TO WORK WITH UAW/CSU ON REACHING AGREEMENT Dear Members, Senate President Pro Tempore Darrell Steinberg has called on UAW Local 4123 to and … Read more
UAW Local 4123 Student Workers Strike: December 10th
UPDATE: This strike event has been POSTPONED. See the postponement release from UAW Local 4123 here or at their website. ——————————– The following is a press release forwarded by Bridget Mabunga concerning the UAW Local 4123 Student Workers Strike to take place on December 10th across the CSU system. UAW Local 4123 is the Union … Read more
