Harryette Mullen is the author of several volumes of poetry including Urban Tumbleweed, Blues Baby: Early Poems, and Sleeping with the Dictionary, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Award in poetry. Three of her early collections published in the 1990s...
Join the UCLA's Center for Near Eastern Studies for a reading featuring André Naffis-Sahely, Professor of English at University of California, Davis and the editor of Poetry London in the UK. Flitting from the mud-soaked floors of Venice to the glittering, towering constructions of the Abu Dhabi of his childhood and early adulthood, from present-day...
Trans Negative Affect
Join UCLA’s Asian American Studies, Center for the Study of Women (CSW), UCLA Departments of English and the Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies (LENS) for “Elemental Cartographies: Mapping Winds in Indigenous Economies of Abundance in an Era of Climate Change,” featuring Candace Fujikane, Professor of English at the University of Hawai’i. As we bear witness...
Taxonomically Queer?: Sexology and New Queer, Trans, and Asexual Identities
A Creative Showcase and Discussion 3:30pm to 5:00pm at the UCLA Luskin Conference Center: Laureate Classroom Literary practitioners have expanded their interests to include video games, performance art and visual poetics. “Expanded media” is our catchall term for all of those spaces between common forms of “media” — TV shows, video games, networked culture —...