Poet Shirley Geok-Lin Lim, a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, will read poems from her new manuscript as part of the Oxnard College Speakers Series, “Passports and Poems from Other Lives,” on Wednesday, April 2, 2008, at 12:45 p.m. in the Oxnard College Clock Tower Auditorium (LS-8).
Professor Lim’s poetry speaks of her experiences as an immigrant traveling from Malaysia to California. She will also talk about poems as passports that document transnational lives. Prof. Geok-Lim was born in Malacca, Malaysia, and came to the United States as a Fulbright and Wien International Scholars in 1969, completing her Ph.D. in British and American Literature at Brandeis University in 1973. She has published two critical studies and has edited and co-edited many critically acclaimed volumes of poetry. Among her recent honors, Dr. Geok-Lim has received the University of California, Santa Barbara Faculty Research Lecture Award, the Chair Professorship of English at the University of Hong Kong, the University of Western Australia Distinguished Lecturer Award, the Fulbright Distinguished Lecturer award, and the J.T. Stewart Hedgebrook Award. She is currently a professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her first collection of poems, Crossing the Peninsula (1980), received the Commonwealth Poetry Prize. She has also published four other volumes: No Man’s Grove (1985); Modern Secrets (1989); Monsoon History (1994); and What the Fortune Teller Didn’t Say (1998). Her novels include Joss and Gold and Sister Swing.
This event is co-sponsored by the Oxnard College Foundation, Poets & Writers, Inc., through a grant from The James Irvine Foundation.
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