Author,
poet hosts event tonight
By Todd Leland
On-line Forty-Niner
The
English department and the English Student
Association are bringing a night of poetry
to Cal State Long Beach today.
The department and the student association
are sponsoring the event that will bring
nationally heralded poet and writer Christopher
Buckley to CSULB.
“Chris is a terrific poet,” said Steven
Cooper, director of the visiting writers
program. “He has been published in The New
Yorker, The Nation and many national poetry
journals.”
Buckley, a professor of creative writing
at University of California at Riverside,
has a long list of accolades to his credit.
He has been awarded two National Endowment
of the Arts grants, four PushCart awards,
which are a national poetry honor, and was
a Fulbright scholar in Yugoslavia.
He is also the author of two volumes of
poetry, “Star Apocrypha” and “Fall From
Grace” and co-editor of “The Geography of
Home: California and the Poetry of Place.”
The program is set up by the English department,
but the ESA also has an important role in
the event. Cooper coordinates the events
and the ESA takes a supporting role doing
much of the grunt work, he said.
“We really like having them involved,” Cooper
said. “It gets them involved in the department
and also gives the students an opportunity
to meet renowned poets and novelists.”
The event starts at 7 p.m. in the Faculty
Development Center on the fifth floor of
the library. Copies of Buckley’s poetry
is available in the University Bookstore
and will also be available at the event.
Cooper stresses the fact that Buckley is
only one of the many poets and novelists
who will be making appearances on campus
this semester. At least six other writers
will visit CSULB this year, Cooper said.
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