New Work by Tung-Hui Hu at "Absent"

Tung-Hui Hu

A MANIFESTO IS AN INVOICE

Parachute silk, iron ore, gasoline, exclamation marks—we used them to exclaim about the men that were rationed, too.With two women for every man, each allotted cards, the youngest, most fertile, first, we spoke shyly, our eyes flashing, when hearing the words manpower, manhunts, mandates, manifestoes.

The function of a manifesto is to name names, to decide who’s in and who’s out, who’s arrived and who’s late to the party. Packaged in the relentless emotion of a PowerPoint presentation, literary manifestoes are concerned with logistics, with product, with time to delivery. They are meant for upwardly mobile people diagramming their network of influence. They speak to the middle managers of poetry, third-tier literary magazines, people “in the know”: they are the ultimate back-office solution.

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http://absentmag.org/?p=8

Natasha Trethewey's "Native Guard" Inspires Symposium at the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art

Coast native’s book inspires symposium
By Pam Firmin - pfirmin@sunherald.com

An exhibit and symposium inspired by the title poem in Natasha Trethewey’s 2007 Pulitzer Prize–winning book “The Native Guard” will debut Jan. 9 as “The Native Guard: A Photographic History of Ship Island’s African American Regiment,” the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art announced Thursday.

Trethewey will be guest of honor at the exhibit’s opening reception and book signing from 6 to 8 p.m. Jan. 9 at the museum, 1596 Glenn Swetman St., Biloxi. At the symposium, which is the next day from 9 a.m. until noon at Bancorp South, she will read from “The Native Guard.” Both events are free but symposium seating is limited to 75 so reservations are suggested.

The exhibit will be up through Feb. 20.

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http://www.sunherald.com/arts/story/1026062.html

Natasha Trethewey on "The Atlanta Forum Network"

The Georgia Review: Natasha Trethewey and Stephen Dunn

Cosponsored by The Georgia Review, the Margaret Mitchell House welcomes Pulitzer prize-winning poets Natasha Trethewey and Stephen Dunn.Trethewey's most recent collection is Native Guard, for which she won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in poetry. A professor at Emory University, she is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Bunting Fellowship Program of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her poetry collections include Domestic Work and Bellocq's Ophelia. Dunn is the author of 16 books, including Different Hours, which won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Since 1974 he has taught at Richard Stockton College in New Jersey, where he is Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing. Dunn is the recipient of the Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations, and three NEA Creative Writing Fellowships.

Read the entire article and watch or listen to the reading here:
http://www.pba.org/afn/event.php?forumEventId=2104

Camille Dungy to Read on December 13th with Damon Brown at "Writers with Drinks"

Camille Dungy and Damon Brown @ Writers With Drinks

	The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St., SF
	December 13, 2008, 19:30 to 21:30
	$3-$5 sliding scale
	Charlie Jane Anders

Award-winning reading series "Writers With Drinks" returns, with an extra nerd-tastic lineup of science fiction, fantasy and video games. Plus amazing poetry and deadpan comedy.

When: Saturday, December 13, 2008, 7:30 to 9:30 PM, doors open at 7:00 PM
Who: Jay Lake, Cat Rambo, Damon Brown, Steve Ferris and Camille T. Dungy
Where: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St. between Mission and Valencia, San Francisco
How much: $3 to $5 sliding scale, all proceeds benefit the CSC.

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https://secure.ocf.berkeley.edu/~qrc/event_detail.php?eventid=379

Natasha Trethewey to Read on December 11th with H.C. Porter

Event featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, local artist set for Dec. 11

By Megan Holland

Sunday, December 7, 2008 6:50 AM CST

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and Gulfport native Natasha Trethewey will join local artist H.C. Porter Thursday for Native Daughters: Conversations on Poetry, an event to highlight their collaboration on Porter’s new book, “Backyards & Beyond: Mississippians and Their Stories.”

Trethewey will open with a poetry reading, then the artists will discuss the book, for which Trethewey wrote the foreword. The publication was released in November as a companion piece to Porter’s traveling exhibit, Backyards & Beyond: Mississippians and Their Stories — The First Year After Katrina.

“I am very grateful to Mississippi’s daughter and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey for bringing her voice to Vicksburg for this event,” said Porter, who operates a gallery on Washington Street. “She is a poet of unsurpassed talent and honors who was gracious enough to lend her words to our ‘Backyards & Beyond: Mississippians and Their Stories’ project.”

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http://www.vicksburgpost.com/articles/2008/12/07/features/doc49393a127a08e854064005.txt

Camille Dungy to Read on December 3rd with Oscar Bermeo, and DeWayne Dickerson

Poetry reading by Camille Dungy, Oscar Bermeo, and DeWayne Dickerson
FREE! (Please BYOB)
Wednesday, December 3rd, 7:30pm
Books & Bookshelves
99 Sanchez Street, SF
(415)621-3761
booksandbookshelves.blogspot.com

Camille T. Dungy is the author of What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison (Red Hen Press, 2006), a finalist for the PEN Center USA 2007 Literary Award and the Library of Virginia 2007 Literary Award. She is assistant editor of Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem’s First Decade (University of Michigan Press, 2006). Dungy has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Virginia Commission for the Arts, the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, Cave Canem, the Dana Award, and the American Antiquarian Society. A graduate of Stanford University and the MFA program at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, her work has appeared in The Missouri Review, The Southern Review, The Crab Orchard Review, Poetry Daily, and other publications. She lives in San Francisco, Calif., where she serves as an associate professor in the Creative Writing Department at San Francisco State University. A co-founder of From the Fishouse, she is currently president of the board of directors, and co-editor of From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great (forthcoming in spring 2009 from Persea Books), edited with Jeffrey Thomson and Matt O’Donnell.

Read the full release here:
http://bjanepr.wordpress.com/2008/11/30/books-and-bookshelves-presents-camille-dungy-oscar-bermeo-and-dewayne-dickerson/