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SUMMARY:New Writing Series: Eleni Sikelianos Kazim Ali
LOCATION:Geisel Library Seuss Room\, 9701 Hopkins Drive\, La Jolla\, CA 92
 093
DESCRIPTION:About New Writing Series\n\nUC San Diego’s New Writing Series 
 invites local\, national\, and international authors to read and perform 
 throughout the academic year. Welcoming a wide range of authors and genre
 s\, including playwrights\, poets\, translators\, essayists\, critics\, f
 iction writers\, and performance artists\, the New Writing Series celebra
 tes both emerging and established award-winning writers. Readers also inc
 lude Department of Literature faculty and graduate students in the MFA Pr
 ogram in Writing. The readings are followed by in-depth question and answ
 er periods that center on craft and artistic practice.\n\nThe New Writing
  Series is co-sponsored by the Department of Literature and the UC San Di
 ego Library’s Special Collections & Archives.\n\nRecordings of New Writin
 g Series readings\, as well as its predecessor\, the New Poetry Series\, 
 which dates back to 1972\, are part of the Archive for New Poetry in UC S
 an Diego Library’s Special Collections & Archives.\n\nThis New Writing Se
 ries event features readings from Eleni Sikelianos and Kazim Ali.\n\nBorn
  into a family of bohemians\, poets\, tree workers\, ne’er-do-wells\, vis
 ionaries\, and smalltime sort-of hustlers\, Eleni Sikelianos is a poet\, 
 writer\, collaborator\, and “master of mixing genres” (according to TimeO
 ut). Kirkus has called her most recent book\, Memory Rehearsal (City Ligh
 ts\, 2026\; the third book in her trilogy of ancestral encounters) “a mov
 ing family memoir and a triumph of cultural archaeology.” Deeply engaged 
 with ecopoetic\n\nhttp://next-to-u.app/events/890da773-6ee5-40f4-a272-8d7
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