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VISITING WRITER SERIES: Next Reading
  Feb.17th, 2010 Brooks Hansen
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“Let Them Have Guam and We’ll Take 200 Noh Plays”: a Conversation with Mary de Rachewiltz  

 

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).

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Announcing the publication of Graduate Writing OR icon 3, the new literary tabloid and publication project of the Otis Graduate Writing program. Due out in October, the issue features an interview with poet and translator Mary de Rachewiltz, author of Discretions, her memoir of life with her father, Ezra Pound, as well as work in translation by such internationally acclaimed writers as Rainer Kunze, Valentino Zeichen, Cesar Aira, Ersi Sotiropoulos, and Pierre Paolo Pasolini. Also featured is prose and poetry by American writers Ray DiPalma, Martha Ronk, Dennis Phillips, Solar Abdoh, Guy Bennett, Douglas Messerli, Andrea Reed, Brian Blanchfield, Bill Mohr, Iris Smyles, Art Beck, Neeli Cherkovski, Ken McCullough, and others. Graduate Writing OR icon is free-of-charge and distributed nationally to bookstores and individuals. To be added to our mailing list, or to contact us, please write to the editor: pvangel@otis.edu.      

                                               

Paul Vangelisti, Chair of the Graduate Writing Program

"For too long the serious study of contemporary poetry and fiction has been consigned 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 new and comprehensive approach to the graduate writing degree. In asking “why Otis?” it is important to view our MFA program not only distinctive in the institutional market but also as an extension of Otis's historical mission to bring innovative arts education to Los Angeles. Our multi-disciplinary approach—writing, literature, critical theory, 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."