Spring 2023

Writing Now Reading Series: Aisha Sabatini Sloan

Writing Now Reading Series: Aisha Sabatini Sloan

Aisha was born and raised in Los Angeles. She earned a BA in English from Carleton College, an MA in Cultural Studies and Studio Art from the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at NYU, and an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the University of Arizona. She is the author of The Fluency of Light, Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit, Borealis, and Captioning the Archives. She is an assistant professor of English at the University of Michigan.

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Blue Tomorrows - A Symposium with Corina Copp, Rebekah Weikel, & Missouri Williams

Blue Tomorrows - A Symposium with Corina Copp, Rebekah Weikel, & Missouri Williams

Blue Tomorrows brings together three artists whose work represents new ecologies at the intersections of writing and image-making. Through personal, political, and philosophical engagement attuned to the impermanent, the indeterminate, and the transcendent qualities of material practice, Corina Copp, Rebekah Weikel, and Missouri Williams each take distinct approaches to feminist world-making. The School of Critical Studies is honored to host a discussion of their work in poetry, criticism, cinema, and fiction.

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Writing Now Reading Series: Percival Everett

Writing Now Reading Series: Percival Everett

The New Yorker recently wrote of Percival Everett that he “has one of the best poker faces in contemporary American literature. The author of twenty-two novels, he excels at the unblinking execution of extraordinary conceits.” Since that article was published Everett has published another novel, Dr. No, which like so many of Everett’s novels could likely only have been conceived in a universe where Percival Everett writes novels. Dr. No follows closely on Booker Prize finalist The Trees, which revisits the story of Emmett Till and the history of lynching in America. Everett is a professor at the University of Southern California and lives in Los Angeles.  

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Fall 2022

Writing Now Reading Series: Ariana Reines

Writing Now Reading Series: Ariana Reines

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Ariana Reines is an award-winning poet, Obie-winning playwright, performing artist, and translator from Salem, Massachusetts. Her books include A Sand Book (2019), winner of the 2020 Kingsley Tufts Prize; longlisted for the National Book Award, The Cow (Alberta Prize, 2006), Coeur de Lion (2007), and Mercury (2011), and a chapbook The Origin of the World (2014) created for Semiotext(e)’s contribution to the 2014 Whitney Biennial. Her play Telephone (2009) was commissioned by The Foundry Theatre, winning two Obies, and has been performed in Norwegian translation (2017) and at KW Berlin (2018) among others. Current commissions include Possession (2023), a major sculpture and performance collaboration with Liz Magic Laser, at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, NY, and Divine Justice (2022), a 24-hour theatrical environment based on Euripedes’ Medea at Performance Space New York. 

Reines is the translator of Baudelaire’s My Heart Laid Bare (Mal-O-Mar, 2009); Jean-Luc Hennig’s The Little Black Book of Grisélidis Réal: Days and Nights of an Anarchist Whore (Semiotext(e) 2009); and Tiqqun’s Preliminary Materials Toward a Theory of the Young Girl (Semiotext(e) 2012). She has previously taught at Columbia University, the European Graduate School, NYU, Tufts, Naropa, The New School, Yale and many others. In 2009 she was Roberta C. Holloway Lecturer in Poetry at the University of California-Berkeley and in 2022 is Distinguished Poet in Residence at Wichita State University, and the Mary Routt Endowed Chair in Writing at Scripps College. 

In 2012 she created Ancient Evenings, an innovative platform generating creative writing through ancient texts, as well as Lazy Eye Haver, an astrology practice through which she practices new forms of arts and consciousness pedagogy. In March 2020, while a Divinity student at Harvard, she created Invisible College, a hub for poetry, art, and sacred study online.

Reading(s) will be streamed via the Creative Writing Program's YouTube Channel.

For more information on the Writing Now Reading Series or for accessibility questions, please contact the Visiting Artist Coordinator at csartistcoordinator@calarts.edu