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VISITING WRITER SERIES: Next Reading
 September 8, 2010 Salar Abdoh
 Salar Abdoh interview

 

Announcing the publication of Graduate Writing OR icon 4, the new literary tabloid and publication project of the Otis Graduate Writing program, featuring poetry, fiction, translations, essays, reviews and visual art, from the U.S., Latin America, Europe, Africa and Asia.  This issue includes an international array of prose and poetry by Rayond Queneau,  Nathaniel Tarn, Elizabeth Robinson, Gazmend Kapllani, Nancy Haiduck, Ray DiPalma, Dolores Dorantes, Rodrigo flores, Neeli Cherkovski, John Latta, Angelo Lumelli, Ersi Sotiropoulou, Mac Wellman, Alan Mills, Sarah Suzor, Emily Kendall Fry, John McBride, Roger des Roches, Art Beck, Gianluca Rizzo, Tim Roberts, Andrea Rexillius, Lousi Phillips, Paula Koneazny, Chris Pusateri, Rebecca Lehmann, Ugo Cornia, Giuliano Della Casa, Rob Schlegel, Bill Mohr, Bob Crosson, Noah Eli Gordon, and Dennis Phillips, with visuals by Giuliano Della Casa, Marco Giovenale and William Xerra. Graduate Writing OR icon is free-of-charge, published in an edition of 6,000 copies, and is distributed internationally to individuals, institutions and bookstores. To be added to our mailing list, or to contact us, please write to the editor: pvangel@otis.edu.     

 

Otis Books / Seismicity Editions

Otis Books / Seismicity Editions is pleased to announce its selections for 2009-2010: The Poetics of Trespass by Erik Anderson and The Capricious Critic by Ari Martin Samsky, slated for publication in Spring 2010. As with all Seismicity titles, the books will be available from Small Press Distribution (www.spdbooks.org).

To be added to the mailing list and to receive our new catalog, you may contact us at: seismicity@otis.edu

 
                                

Paul Vangelisti, Chair of the Graduate Writing Program

"Too often the study of contemporary poetry and fiction has been left to the English Department or to other disciplines that fail to consider the primary and complex practice of writing as a verbal art. Otis is uniquely positioned to introduce a comprehensive approach to the graduate writing degree. In asking “why Otis?” it is important to view our MFA program as not only distinctive in the institutional market but also as an extension of Otis's historical mission to bring innovative arts education to the Los Angeles Basin. Our multi-disciplinary approach—writing, literature, criticism, publishing and translation—is the ideal complement to the program's international emphasis, providing a singular opportunity to look at American writing in relation to other contemporary world literatures. We prepare verbal artists to make their way in a profession that increasingly involves teaching or other institutional affiliations (publishing, arts organizations, museums, etc.), along with the more traditional, individualized role of the creative writer. As a writer, specifically a California writer, I find that where I live grows daily more curious and fascinating: what is of and in the world speaks with an eloquence beyond any voice I can imagine.”