Tonight

Mountains, Rivers and Haiku: Basho to Kerouac. Whether your interest is in haiku, Kerouac, or John Brandi himself, please come by this evening at 7 PM to hear Mr. Brandi speak on the history of haiku leading up to modern American uses of the genre and Jack Kerouac's contribution to it. Main Library Community Room.

      John Brandi, a native of Southern California, graduated from Cal State Northridge in 1965 with a BA in art and anthropology. In 1971 he moved to New Mexico, published That back Road In, and received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry.
      John is a painter as well as a poet and has held solo exhibits throughout the United States. Among his honors are a Witter Bynner Translation Grant, the Just Buffalo Writers Award, the Portland State University Poetry Prize and numerous poet-in-residence awards from state arts councils. Among his poetry books are: In What Disappears, Water Shining Beyond the Fields, Heartbeat Geography, Weeding the Cosmos and That Back Road In. His works of prose include A Question of Journey and Reflections in the Lizard’s Eye.