Poetry and Jazz W. Keith & Janet Kellogg Art Gallery (Info)

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Poetry and Jazz at the W. Keith and Janet Kellogg Art Gallery
Monday, May 3, 2004
5:00 - 6:30p.m.

Featuring Kenny Burrell, jazz great, UCLA Music department faculty, guitarist whose cool-toned sound and unchanging style based in bop debuted on records with Dizzy Gillespie in 1951.

Will Alexander, author of numerous volumes of poetry including Asia and Haiti (Sun & Moon Press) and director of a recent literary conference on the legacy of surrealism and Andre Breton at Beyond Baroque Literary Center.

Dominic Cheung, a poet scholar teaching at the University of Southern California whose most recent poetic works include translations of Taiwanese poets, Selected Poems (1999), A Map of Drifting (2001) and Drifting (in English, Green Integer Books, Los Angeles/Kobenhaven, 2000).

Guy Bennett, author of four books of poetry, most recently Drive to Cluster (2003) and with Beatrice Mousli, of Charing the Here of There: French & American Poetry in Translation in Literary Magazines, 1850-2002 (2002). His translations include books by Mostafa Nissabouri, Michel Leiris, Nicole Brossard, Valere Novarina, and Jacques Roubaud.

For more information, please contact Meadows at (909) 869-4968.

Many thanks to our sponsors: Department of Liberal Studies, Office of the Dean of College of Education and Integrative Studies, Associated Students Incorporated, Department of Ethnic and WOmen's Studies, Interdisciplinary General Education Program, Instructional & Information Technology, Office of the Provost, Poets and Writers, Inc. through a grant received from the James Irvine Foundation, and the W. Keith and Janet Kellogg University Art Gallery.