New Writing Series with Francisco Levato and Anna Joy Springer (Canceled)

When
Mar 11, 2020
5:00 PM–6:30 PM

This event has been canceled in accordance with UC San Diego’s recommendation to cancel or postpone gatherings on campus through May 10. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this might cause.  

Francesco Levato is a poet, a literary translator, and a new media artist. Recent books include Arsenal/Sin Documentos; Endless, Beautiful, Exact; Elegy for Dead Languages; War Rug; and the chapbooks A Continuum of Force and jettison/collapse. He has collaborated and performed with various composers, including Philip Glass, and his cinépoetry has been exhibited in galleries and featured at film festivals in Berlin, Chicago, New York, and elsewhere. He is currently an assistant professor of literature and writing studies at California State University, San Marcos.

Anna Joy Springer is the author of The Vicious Red Relic, Love (Jaded Ibis, 2011), an illustrated fabulist memoir with soundscape (Your Metaforest Guidebook), and The Birdwisher, A Murder Mystery for Very Old Young Adults (Birds of Lace, 2009). Her work appears in zines, journals, anthologies, and recordings. An associate professor of literature at UC San Diego, she teaches experimental writing, feminist literature & graphic texts. She’s performed in punk and queercore bands Blatz, The Gr’ups, and Cypher in the Snow and toured the U.S. with the writers of Sister Spit.

Contact: Kazim Ali, (858) 534-2101, mkali@ucsd.edu

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