Janice Lee's Blog, page 12
April 18, 2017
CSU Summer Arts Hybrid Poetics and Narratives / June 26-July 9
I’m excited to be teaching part of the CSU Summer Arts Hybrid Poetics and Narratives course this summer at Cal State Fresno.
With Doug Rice, Joshua Edwards, Stephanie Sauer, & Ricardo Cortex Cruz
COURSE DATES: June 26 to July 9, 2017
APPLICATION DEADLINE: May 1, 2017
Mingle images and texts to break open narrative desires.
Explore the intimate relationship between images and narratives.
Learn to play with photographs and stories.
Write, design, and create a chapbook of your work.
Experiment with photography and narratives.
Invent creative intersections between image, prose, and poetry.
This course will culminate in a public reading of student work and a printed chapbook.
CCM at Beyond Baroque / May 27
Saturday May 27, 8:00 PM
@ Beyond Baroque
681 N. Venice Blvd. Venice, CA 90291
THE SELF IS A HYBRID FORM: NEW WORK FROM CIVIL COPING MECHANISMS
Five authors read work that radically re-imagines autobiography, the self, and the literary conventions of personal narrative. An evening of hybrid forms encompassing memoir, fiction, poetry, and the unclassifiable.
With Christopher Higgs, Wendy C. Ortiz, Chiwan Choi, Harold Abramowitz, and Janice Lee. Hosted by Quentin Ring. Regular admission. Members FREE.
WCCW Reading Series: Coalition / May 18
Thursday, May 18 at 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM
Women’s Center for Creative Work
2425 Glover Pl, Los Angeles, California 90031
Hosted by Nina Rota and Sara Finnerty
Janice Lee
Rachel Kann
Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo
Julia Ingalls
The WCCW Reading Series is a quarterly literary reading series organized by Sara Finnerty and Nina Rota. The readings are thematically linked with WCCW programming which, for spring 2017, is the idea of Coalition.
SUBLEVEL Release Party / May 9
Please help us celebrate the launch of B-Sides, the print edition of SUBLEVEL magazine! The release party will be at the Armory Center for the Arts on
Tuesday, May 9th, 7-9 pm.
145 N Raymond Ave, Pasadena, CA 91103
There will be a short set of readings by our contributors Litia Perta, Jih-Fei Cheng, Candice Lin and Muriel Leung at 8 pm. Light food and refreshments will be served.
T-shirts and magazines will be for sale.
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http://sublevelmag.com
SUBLEVEL is an online literary magazine devoted to the nexus of literature, poetics, art, criticism, philosophy, culture, and politics. SUBLEVEL inherits and reflects the dynamism of contemporary Los Angeles as a hub of literature, art, and activism, while also stretching beyond our locality. Based in the CalArts MFA Creative Writing Program, an innovative and interdisciplinary environment dedicated to the experimental impulse in writing and thinking, SUBLEVEL is a literary publication immersed in the world of art without being in service to it.
January 7, 2017
New Orleans Poetry Festival / April 20-23
I’m excited to be a part of the Animals in the Afterlife panel, with Brenda Iijima, Michelle Detorie, Soham Patel, & Laura Woltag.
More details TBA.
University of South Alabama Visiting Writers Series / April 12
Wednesday, April 12, 2017, 4pm
English Department
The University of South Alabama
5991 USA Drive, N. / Room 240
Mobile, AL 36688
Cake Time Release @ Skylight Books / April 5
I’ll be reading at the release of Siel Ju’s new book Cake Time (Red Hen Press) at Skylight Books.
Wednesday, April 5, 2017 – 7:30pm
Skylight Books
1818 N Vermont Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90027
Readers: Siel Ju, Jim Ruland, Victoria Patterson, and Janice Lee.
Daring yet aimless, smart but slightly strange, Cake Time’s young female protagonist keeps making slippery choices, sliding into the dangerous space where curiosity melds with fear and desires turn into dirty messes. In “How Not to Have an Abortion,” the teenaged narrator looks for a ride from the clinic between her AP exams. In “Easy Target,” the now-college-grad agrees to go to a swingers party with a handsome stranger. A decade later, in “Glow,” she is suddenly confronted by the disturbing and thrilling fact of her lover’s secret daughter. Ultimately, this unflinching novel-in-stories grapples with urgent, timeless questions: why intelligent girls make terrible choices, where to negotiate a private self in an increasingly public world, and how to love madly without losing a sense of self.
