A poet who knows the Central Valley will be the guest at this year’s Jean & Louis Janzen Visiting Writers Series from Fresno Pacific University.
David Dominguez will speak at 7:00 p.m. Thursday, January 30, 2025, in the Lin Family Performance Studio, part of the Warkentine Culture and Arts Center on the main FPU campus, 4838 E. Butler Ave., Fresno.
The evening will feature a reading by Dominguez, light refreshments and a book-signing, hosted by the FPU Fine Arts and Humanities Department. Admission is free, and registration is not required.
David Dominguez
David Dominguez holds a B.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of California at Irvine and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Arizona. He is the author of Marcoli Sausage, Work Done Right and The Ghost of César Chávez. His poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies such as How Much Earth: The Fresno Poets, The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry, Bear Flag Republic: Prose Poems and Poetics from California and Camino del Sol: Fifteen Years of Latina and Latino Writing. His essay “Elote Man” appears in Nepantla Familias: an Anthology of Mexican American Literature on Families Between Worlds. He is an English instructor at Reedley College where he teaches composition and poetry writing.
Jean & Louis Janzen Visiting Writers Series
The Visiting Writers Series honors the service, teaching and contributions of Dr. Louis Janzen and Jean Janzen, award-winning Central Valley poet and Fresno Pacific University faculty. Founded in the fall of 2007, the series was established to showcase the creative works from writers to the FPU community.