WRITING FROM THE DESERT SERIES
Co-sponsored by University of California, Riverside Palm Desert Graduate Center and the Rancho Mirage Public Library. Events take place at the Rancho Mirage Public Library, 71-100 Highway 111, Rancho Mirage. For information, call 341-7323, e-mail
librarian@ranchomiragelibrary.org or visit www.ranchomiragelibrary.org
From left to right: Novelist Lisa Teasley; Betty Teoman, director of RMPL, novelists Rob Roberge, Tod Goldberg, and Susan Straight; novelist and TV writer Thom Racina; Tom Lutz, gadabout; novelist and poet Gayle Brandeis.
Sessions I and II
Opening Event-Guest Authors
Session III
Desert Crimes
Nov. 16, 1:30-3:30
Charles Bowden and Deanne Stillman
Session IV
Desert Borders
Dec. 6, 1:30-3:30
Sesshu Foster and Ruben Martinez
Session V
Poetry of the Desert
Jan. 24, 1:30-3:30
Allison Hedge Coke, Juan Felipe Herrera and Margarita Luna Robles
Session VI
Deserts Around the World
Feb. 14, 1:30-3:30
Reza Aslan and Laila Lalami
Session VII
California Desert Literature: from Arid Land to Literary Bounty
March 20, 1:30-3:30
Ruth Nolan, Malcolm Margolin, Kathryn Jordan, Rebecca O’Connor
GNEISS POETRY SERIES
All events are held at the UCR Palm Desert Graduate Center, 75-080 Frank Sinatra Drive (corner of Cook and Frank Sinatra Drive), Palm Desert. For information call 834-0800 or visit
Film: “The Odyssey: Poets, Passion & Poetry”
Nov. 13, 7:00pm
Poet and bibliotherapist John Fox
Feb. 8, 7:00pm
Poets Jeffrey Harrison and Carolyne Wright
Feb. 26, 7:00pm
Poet Matthew Zapruder
March 14, 7:00pm
Poets Lola Haskins and Nin Andrews
April 8, 7:00pm
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