FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 14, 2008
Media Contact: George Cagala, (760) 750-4012

Edwin Torres to Read Selections at CSUSM

Renowned poet Edwin Torres will read selections from his works at the next Community and World Literary Series event Thursday, Feb. 21, beginning at 7 p.m. in the Grand Salon of the M. Gordon Clarke Field House at California State University San Marcos. The event is free and open to the public. Parking is $3.

Torres has collaborated with a wide range of artists, creating performances that intermingle poetry with vocal & physical improvisation, sound-elements and visual theater. He has received poetry fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, The Foundation for Contemporary Performance Art, The Poets Fund and The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. He has taught workshops at Naropa University, St. Marks Poetry Project, Bard College, Mills College and Miami University, among others. His work has been widely published and his CD, Holy Kid (Kill Rock Stars Records), was part of The Whitney Museum's exhibition, The American Century Pt. II. His books include, I Hear Things People Haven't Really Said, Fractured Humorous (Subpress), The All-Union Day ofThe Shock Worker (Roof Books), and The PoPedology of an Ambient Language (Atelos Books).

For more information: Mark Wallace, markwall@csusm.edu, 760-750-8077.

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