Events
Hieroglyph: Celebrating the Voices of Mission At Tenth
Aug 27 2011 6:15PM - 7:30PM
Join us for the opening event of Saturday Night @ CIIS, a celebration of the MFA department's inter-arts journal, Mission At Tenth. Readings and performances by Stephen Kessler, Daniela Hurezanu, Jaime Robles, Angelica Muro, Kris Brandenburger and more!
Location: CIIS' Namaste Hall, 3rd floor of 1453 Mission Street between 10th and 11th, SF
Kris Brandenburger's work has appeared in Zyzzyva, Violet Ink, the L.A. Review and several anthologies. Kris has performed text-sound work at The San Francisco Conservatory of Music; The University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Ohlone College, Fremont; The Michigan Women's Music Festival and several local clubs. She founded The Feminist Bookie, An Author's Agency-the first West Coast literary agency dedicated to feminist writers. She was also the founder of Select Electrics, a workshop for the repair of electrical systems on vintage race cars and museum quality restorations. As owner/technician of Select Electrics she was asked to present in "Women's Car Links" at the Oakland Museum of California. Her interests are eclectic and centered in the intersections of the literary, visual and intellectual arts. Kris earned a doctorate in Humanities from CIIS. Her dissertation, "The Reddest Rose Unfolds: a girl's own fish stories," is a multiple genre creative writing piece.
Daniela Hurezanu's essays and book reviews appear regularly in Rain Taxi, The Chattahoochee Review, American Book Review, Words without Borders, Three Percent and The Redwood Coast Review. Her translation from the French (with Stephen Kessler) of Raymond Queneau's Eyeseas (Black Widow Press, 2008) was a finalist for the Three Percent/University of Rochester Poetry in Translation Prize. Her translation of Jean-Luck Nancy's essay, "Outlandish: Strange Foreign Bodies," was featured in a film by Phillip Warnell, and is forthcoming from a British publisher.
Stephen Kessler is a poet, prose writer, translator and editor whose recent books include The Tolstoy of the Zulus: On Culture, Arts & Letters (essays), The Sonnets by Jorge Luis Borges (as editor and principle translator), The Mental Traveler (novel), and Desolation of the Chimera by Luis Cernuda, winner of the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets. He is the editor of The Redwood Coast Review.
Angelica Muro has used drawings and photographs to examine the exploitation of farm workers by agribusiness through its unsafe pesticide handling policies and practices. Using irony to explore class and cultural identity, from an agricultural worker dressed in a Gucci wardrobe to brand name fragrances deglamourized by pesticide application equipment, Muro merges provocative and destabilizing elements to facilitate a dialogue about the social, cultural and political issues that define and shape our consumer identity. Angelica Muro received a MFA degree from Mills College in 2005, and a BA in Photography from San Jose State University in 1998. Recent exhibitions include Packing Heat, Slanguage, Wilmington CA, and Feel the Difference: Cultural Branding Remix, Works/San Jose, San Jose, CA. She is the recipient of the Herringer Family Foundation Award for Excellence in Art and the Trefethen Merit Award. Muro's curatorial projects have been awarded grants from the Center for Cultural Innovation through the Creative Capacity Fund, the James Irvine Foundation for Intersections, and Adobe Youth Voices. She is currently a full-time lecturer of Integrated Media and Photography at California State University, Monterey Bay in the department of Visual and Public Art.
Jaime Robles, recipient of a grant from the Fund for Poetry, published her most recent book of poetry, Anime, Animus, Anima, with Shearman Books in 2010. Her work has been published in numerous magazines, including Conjunctions, New American Writing, and Volt.
