Poetry Slam with Paul Flores
Tuesday, 22 Feb 2011 at 7:00 pm – Maintenance Shop, Memorial Union
Paul Flores is a spoken word artist, poet, playwright, and award-winning author whose performance projects have taken him from international Hip-Hop festivals to HBO's Def Poetry Jam to his solo show, You're Gonna Cry. Raised on the Tijuana-San Diego border, issues of immigration and Latino identity are central to his work. He cofounded the Latino poetry performance group Los Delicados, is the author of the PEN Award-winning novel Along the Border Lies, and is the founding artistic director of Chicano Messengers of Spoken Word. His playwriting credits include REPRESENTA!, which has toured to seventeen cities. Flores holds an MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State and teaches at the University of San Francisco.Cosponsored By:
- MFA Program in Creative Writing and Environment
- Multicultural Student Programming Advisory Council
- Sigma Lambda Beta Education Fund
- Student Union Board
- US Latino Studies Program
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
Stay for the entire event, including the brief question-and-answer session that follows the formal presentation. Most events run 75 minutes.
Sign-ins are after the event concludes. For lectures in the Memorial Union, go to the information desk in the Main Lounge. In other academic buildings, look for signage outside the auditorium.
Lecture Etiquette
- Stay for the entire lecture and the brief audience Q&A. If a student needs to leave early, he or she should sit near the back and exit discreetly.
- Do not bring food or uncovered drinks into the lecture.
- Check with Lectures staff before taking photographs or recording any portion of the event. There are often restrictions. Cell phones, tablets and laptops may be used to take notes or for class assignments.
- Keep questions or comments brief and concise to allow as many as possible.