Lisa Hemminger in the Mississippi Review! Kudos! Cheers!

A giant tip of the hat to Lisa Hemminger, a recent SDSU MFA Poetry graduate and an outstanding member of our faculty, for her publication in The Mississippi Review.

Click the image below to read her most recently published poem


You can always learn more about our cool MFA Program here.

Jericho Brown Reading from PLEASE this Thursday Morning @ 8am, West Commons 220! Free

Jericho Brown is in the house @ SDSU this coming Thursday morning to dazzle listeners in Professor Bill Nericcio's Sex in Film and Lit class with readings from his jaw-droppingly compelling new collection, PLEASE. The talk begins at 8am (yikes!), Thursday, April 23, 2009 in SDSU's WEST COMMONS 220; admission is FREE, but seating is limited, so make sure to get there early to secure your ringside seat. Brown's liable to burn the house down with his searing, lyric musings, so brace yourself for incoming! Here's a cool interview with Jericho Brown.

Music, classic R & B music, rules the pages of this slim, potent volume with cameos by Donny Hathaway, Roberta Flack, and Marvin Gaye rolling in and out of its pages. Here's a classic taste of Marvin Gaye to set the vibe for Thurday's reading:

Marvin Gaye - Sexual Healing

Diana Garcia! SDSU Poetry Alumni Sighting!

NEA Awards Maggie Jaffe $25,000

English department lecturer Maggie Jaffe, who is known for her courses in Latin American literature, poetry, and creative writing is now also one of our nation's 2009 NEA poetry fellowship recipients. She has been selected to received a $25,000 award from The National Endowment for the Arts.

Jane Hirshfield Rocks the House at SDSU

The Director of our Hugh C. Hyde Living Writers series, the one and only Victoria Featherstone, writes in to report on the success of our last reading for 2008:

Reply-To: Victoria Featherstone
To: "Dr. William A. Nericcio"
Subject: FYI

Dear Bill,

Thought I'd pass this article along to you; I met with the reporter for the Daily Aztec, and the last Tuesday she interviewed Jane Hirshfield. Perhaps you heard that we had an SRO crowd that night in the larger space (LL108), and library personnel had to bring out two more carts of chairs. Luckily we also had many people willing to sit on the floor because that was the only available seating left. Here's the link. Of course, I'd be remiss if I didn't express my gratitude to Ilya Kaminsky and Sandra Alcosser for their support of this event.

Best,
Victoria