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From: Julie Kline <cla>
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 15:26:46 -0600
PLEASE ANNOUNCE
Author JUDITH ORTIZ COFER
"A Casa of my Own"
a free public lecture
Thursday, March 2, 2000 5:15pm
Room L160, Elvehjem Art Museum 800 University Avenue UW-Madison
Poet, author, critic Judith Ortiz Cofer, a native of Puerto Rico, teaches English and creative writing at the University of Georgia. She is also the author of the highly acclaimed collection of short fiction for adolescents, An Island Like You: Stories from the Barrio (a 1995 Americas Award Honor Book), as well as titles for adults such as Silent Dancing: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood, Terms of Survival, Reaching for
the Mainland & Selected New Poems, and The Latin Deli. Cofer will lecture about biculturalism and the creative
process.
Sponsored by the Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC), with the Friends of the CCBC, the Dept of Curriculum and Instruction, the Latin American and Iberian Studies Program, the Program
in Creative Writing/Dept of English, the School of Library and Information Studies, Union Puertorriquena (UW-Madison) and the Center for Latin America (UW-Milwaukee).
-Julie K. Kline Outreach and Academic Program Coordinator Center for Latin America University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee PO Box 413 Milwaukee, WI 53201
(414) 229Y86 phone
(414) 229(79 fax cla at uwm.edu www.uwm.edu/Dept/CLA
Received on Wed 01 Mar 2000 03:26:46 PM CST
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 15:26:46 -0600
PLEASE ANNOUNCE
Author JUDITH ORTIZ COFER
"A Casa of my Own"
a free public lecture
Thursday, March 2, 2000 5:15pm
Room L160, Elvehjem Art Museum 800 University Avenue UW-Madison
Poet, author, critic Judith Ortiz Cofer, a native of Puerto Rico, teaches English and creative writing at the University of Georgia. She is also the author of the highly acclaimed collection of short fiction for adolescents, An Island Like You: Stories from the Barrio (a 1995 Americas Award Honor Book), as well as titles for adults such as Silent Dancing: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood, Terms of Survival, Reaching for
the Mainland & Selected New Poems, and The Latin Deli. Cofer will lecture about biculturalism and the creative
process.
Sponsored by the Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC), with the Friends of the CCBC, the Dept of Curriculum and Instruction, the Latin American and Iberian Studies Program, the Program
in Creative Writing/Dept of English, the School of Library and Information Studies, Union Puertorriquena (UW-Madison) and the Center for Latin America (UW-Milwaukee).
-Julie K. Kline Outreach and Academic Program Coordinator Center for Latin America University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee PO Box 413 Milwaukee, WI 53201
(414) 229Y86 phone
(414) 229(79 fax cla at uwm.edu www.uwm.edu/Dept/CLA
Received on Wed 01 Mar 2000 03:26:46 PM CST
