Mission at Tenth Inter-Arts Journal Launch Party April 6, 2013

The editors and staff of California Institute of Integral Studies' innovative inter-arts journal, Mission at Tenth, invite you to celebrate the launch of Vol. 4, the "unspoken body" issue. Readings by writer and director, Richard Kramer; novelist, Natalie Baszile; poet, Margaret Rhee; and installation artist, Mildred Howard.

Richard Kramer is the Emmy and multiple Peabody award winning writer, director and producer of numerous TV series, including Thirtysomething, My So-called Life, Tales of the City, and Once and Again. His first short story appeared in the New Yorker while he was still an undergraduate at Yale.

Natalie Baszile is the author of the debut novel Queen Sugar, forthcoming from Viking/Penguin. Queen Sugar won the Hurston Wright College Writer's Award, the Sylvia Clare Brown fellowship, and was runner-up in the Faulkner Pirate's Alley novel-in-progress competition. Natalie has had residencies at the Ragdale Foundation, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and Hedgebrook.

Margaret Rhee is the author of Yellow (Tinfish Press, 2011), School of Dreams (Forthcoming, 2013), and co-editor of Here is A Pen: An Anthology of West Coast Kundiman Poets (Achiote Press, 2010). She is managing editor of Mixed Blood, a literary journal of innovative poetics and race and the online anthology Glitter Tongue: Queer and Trans Love Poems (2012).

Mildred Howard is an installation and mixed-media artist, and educator, who was born in San Francisco. Awards include a Rockefeller Foundation Artist Fellowship at the Bellagio Center in Italy, the Lila Wallace Readers Digest Fellowship to Oaxaca, Mexico, an NEA Grant for sculpture, a Fleischhacker Eureka Fellowship, and a California Arts Council Artist Fellowship. Howard has exhibited nationally and internationally, including Berlin, Cairo, Venice and Bath.

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