October 6, 2009

Update: Cancelled due to illness

Poet Juan Felipe Herrera, an associate professor emeritus of Chicano and Latin American Studies at California State University, Fresno, opens the Fall 2009 MFA Writers Reading Series at Fresno State at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 8, in the Henry Madden Library.

Herrera has published 24 volumes of poetry, prose, theatre, children’s books and young-adult novels. He received the National Book Critics Circle Award for his 2008 poetry collection, “Half of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems.”

Herrera holds the Tomás Rivera endowed chair in the Department of Creative Writing at University of California, Riverside.

The series is produced by the Master of Fine Arts program within Fresno State’s Department of English in the College of Arts and Humanities. The series is open to the public and there is no admission charge.

Other events in the series during the fall semester:

• Oct. 15 – Novelist and former faculty member Steve Yarbrough

• Oct. 30 – Novelists Ron Carlson and Michelle Latiolais

• Nov. 13 – MFA Convocation Reading by Marcus Chinn, Jasmine Armstrong and Matthew Lance

• Nov. 19 – Poet Joe Stroud

• Dec. 4 – MFA Convocation Reading by Andrew Corcostegui, Karen Sikola and Candace Duerkson

For more information, call 559.278.2553 or e-mail Rachel Jackson at rjackson@csufresno.edu.