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October 2, 2005, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
The Empire Firehouse at History Park San Jose, 1650 Senter Road, San Jose, CA
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This poetry workshop will be led by Rafael Jesus Gonzalez upstairs in the Empire Firehouse at History Park San Jose. The workshop fee is $75 for members of PCSJ and $100 for non-members. This venue is wheelchair accessible.
Rafael Jesús González was born in El Paso, Texas, attended the University of Texas at El Paso, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, and the University of Oregon. Professor of Creative Writing & Literature, he taught at the University of Oregon, Western State University of Colorado, Central Washington State University, the University of Texas at El Paso, and for thirty years at Laney College. His poetry and scholarly articles are widely published in reviews and anthologies in the U.S., Mexico and abroad. His collection of verse El Hacedor De Juegos/The Maker of Games published by Casa Editorial, San Francisco, went into a second printing. Also a visual artist, his work has been exhibited at the Oakland Museum, the Mexican Museum of San Francisco, and others in the U.S., Mexico, and abroad. He was Poet in Residence at the Oakland Museum of California and the Oakland Public Library under the Poets & Writers "Writers on Site Program" in 1996. In 2002 he received the Annual Dragonfly Press Award for Literary Achievement and was honored in 2003 by the National Council of Teachers of English & Annenberg/CPB for his writing. |
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| Sponsored by Poetry Center San Jose |
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| Info: |
(408) 292-3254
info@pcsj.org
http://www.pcsj.org |
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