Between Genres: Prose Poetry and Flash Fiction
Joshua McKinney and CSUS Creative Writing Students
Monday, April 27, 2015 at 7:30 PM
SPC at 1719 25th Street
Host: Tim Kahl
Featured Readers include:
Desmond Tung just turned 21 on the 24th of April. His favorite things in the world are dark chocolate and drinking coffee black. He also looks forward to what legally pairing alcohol and writing might produce. Wish him a happy belated birthday!”
Lauren Lavin is a Californian who studies at Sacramento State University. She writes songs and stories, loves books, whiskey and punk rock, and uses glasses and an inhaler.
Jason Stephen Shapiro lives in Sacramento, originally from the east coast. He has a background in theater, photography, and radio. He served on the American River Review as a fiction editor in 2012 at American River College. He is wrapping up his B.A. in English and beginning his M.A. in poetry and fiction, at Sacramento State University this fall. Previously, a poetry editor for the Calaveras Station literary journal, he has accepted the executive editor’s position commencing this fall. Jason’s poetry attempts to grind at what the soul cannot speak of through disparate juxtapositions.
Alexander Econome is a senior at Sacramento State University and will be receiving his Bachelor’s of Arts in English this spring.
He has published the poem “Beauty in the Night” in the Falcon Scratch magazine and has written several free modules for tabletop role-playing games.
Jenny Yniguez is a Sacramento native and currently an English major at Sacramento State. She enjoys creative writing, especially poetry. Her latest interest is in eco-poetics, though she also likes writing prose poetry and flash fiction. Before attending CSUS, Jenny spent three years in San Diego going to school for architecture. When she is not studying for classes and writing , Jenny loves to travel, go camping, and hiking with friends and family.
Danny Chavez is from Lindsay, CA and currently lives in Sacramento where he studies Creative Writing. He received his B.A in English from Humboldt State University (2013) and writes poetry and creative non-fiction.
