Celebrating Mission At Tenth: CIIS inter-arts journal August 27, 2011

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!

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; The Michigan Women's Music Festival and several local clubs. As owner/technician of Select Electrics she was asked to present in "Women's Car Links" at the Oakland Museum of California.

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.

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. 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. Recent exhibitions include Packing Heat, Slanguage, Wilmington CA, and Feel the Difference: Cultural Branding Remix, Works/San Jose, San Jose, CA.

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.

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