June 24, 2010 7:00 p.m.
University of San Francisco
Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation (VONA)/Voices Writing Workshops showcases its stellar faculty in a public literary event. In this rare live forum, featured writers present pieces from their bodies of work in memoir, novel, poetry, mixed genre, and performance arts.
Aside/Inside: Voices of Truth
A Reading, An Education; An Inspiration
Writers of Color Present their "Voices" at Major Reading
Suheir Hammad, the acclaimed Palestinian-American poet, Def Poetry Jam writer, performer & 2009 American Book Award winner for Breaking Poem
Lorna Dee Cervantes, the award-winning Chicana-Native American poet and author of Emplumada and Pulitzer-nominated work, DRIVE: The First Quartet
David Mura, the award-winning poet, playwright, and author of Turning Japanese: Memoirs of a Sansei, listed in the New York Times Notable Books of Year
Elmaz Abinader, widely anthologized Arab-American author, poet and performance artist and author of Children of the Roojme, the first memoir about Arab-Americans published by a trade publisher in the U.S., and award winning collection of poetry, In the Country of My Dreams.
More information here.
University of San Francisco
Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation (VONA)/Voices Writing Workshops showcases its stellar faculty in a public literary event. In this rare live forum, featured writers present pieces from their bodies of work in memoir, novel, poetry, mixed genre, and performance arts.
Aside/Inside: Voices of Truth
A Reading, An Education; An Inspiration
Writers of Color Present their "Voices" at Major Reading
Suheir Hammad, the acclaimed Palestinian-American poet, Def Poetry Jam writer, performer & 2009 American Book Award winner for Breaking Poem
Lorna Dee Cervantes, the award-winning Chicana-Native American poet and author of Emplumada and Pulitzer-nominated work, DRIVE: The First Quartet
David Mura, the award-winning poet, playwright, and author of Turning Japanese: Memoirs of a Sansei, listed in the New York Times Notable Books of Year
Elmaz Abinader, widely anthologized Arab-American author, poet and performance artist and author of Children of the Roojme, the first memoir about Arab-Americans published by a trade publisher in the U.S., and award winning collection of poetry, In the Country of My Dreams.
More information here.
