The English Department at Cal State Long Beach will host its 2007 Reading Series Tuesday, Oct. 23 with an appearance by poet Dorianne Laux, author of “Facts about the Moon.” at 7 p.m. in the University Student Union.
Laux, born in Maine, worked as a sanatorium cook, a gas station manager and a maid before receiving a B.A. in English from Mills College in 1988. Her fourth book of poems, Facts about the Moon, won the Oregon book Award and was short-listed for the 2006 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for the most outstanding book of poems published in the United States in the previous year.
“Laux is a very accessible poet,” said series organizer Charles Harper Webb, coordinator of the English Department’s creative writing program. “That is in keeping with CSULB’s tradition of accessible, emotionally strong poetry. Laux is an excellent, all-around poet who fits in perfectly with our aesthetic.”
Following Laux in the series will be novelist Cai Emmons, author of The Stylist and His Mother’s Son on Tuesday, Nov. 6, poet Richard Garcia on Tuesday, Dec.4 and memoirist Emily Rapp, author of Poster Child, concludes the series on Tuesday, Mar. 11, 2008.
All readings begin at 7 p.m. in Room 24 of the University Student Union of CSULB, located at 1250 Bellflower Boulevard. The series is free and is co-sponsored by the English Students Association and Poets and Writers, Inc.
For more information, contact Rick Gloady at (562) 985-5454.
