South Carolina poet
 Gary Jackson
will read from his book
Missing You,
 Metropolis
 selected and
 with an Introduction
 by Yusef Komunyakaa,
 Saturday, July 22nd, 7pm

With humor and the serious collector’s delight, Gary Jackson imagines the comic-book worlds of Superman, Batman, and the X-Men alongside the veritable worlds of Kansas, racial isolation, and the gravesides of a sister and a friend.

“Jackson integrates the comic-book world of superheroes like Spider-Man and Batman into his world as a black adolescent in Kansas.  The finale is gentle, almost anticlimactic, as he recalls how his superheroes let him ‘inhabit a world a page removed from our own,’ hinting at the grace of (temporary) escapism.”—San Francisco Chronicle

Gary Jackson is the author of the poetry collection Missing You, Metropolis, which received the 2009 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. He is featured on 2013’s “New American Poets” by the Poetry Society of America, and his poems have appeared in Callaloo, Tin House, 32 Poems, Crab Orchard Review, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of both a Cave Canem and Bread Loaf fellowship, and an associate poetry editor at Crazyhorse. He teaches poetry in the MFA program at the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina.

Noted architectural historian Keith York will discuss and show slides of Frank Lloyd Wright’s impact on San Diego architecture – joined by Wright Apprentice Bill Slatton. Though urban legends persist to the contrary, Frank Lloyd Wright did not build a project in San Diego County. What does exist here are buildings by Wright’s sons, his apprentices and disciples, who moved to the region and spread his ideals across a number of projects from the 1940s on.

As a follow-on to the highly successful exhibition at La Jolla Historical Society, ‘Frank Lloyd Wright’s Legacy in San Diego: The Taliesin Apprentices’, curator and historian Keith York will interview Wright apprentice Bill Slatton and share the history of Wright’s influence in San Diego. Prior to his passing in 1959, Frank Lloyd Wright shared his architectural ideals with his sons Lloyd Wright & John Lloyd Wright and apprentices Sim Bruce Richards, Loch Crane, Frederick Liebhardt, Vincent Bonini and Bill Slatton – all of whom moved to San Diego and designed an array of projects for clients throughout the region. Slatton worked with Wright between 1956-59, then moved to San Diego where he would collaborate with locals like Kendrick Bangs Kellogg, James Hubbell, Harold Abrams, Leonard Veitzer, William Lumpkins, Loch Crane, Lloyd Ruocco, Homer Delawie and Frederick Liebhardt.

Keith York has published regularly on the San Diego’s post-World War II modernist architecture, art, design and craft at modernsandiego.com. Recognized for his restoration of Craig Ellwood’s Bobertz House (1953-55), York’s most recent project, an exhibition for the La Jolla Historical Society The Taliesin Architects of San Diego: The Legacy of Frank Lloyd Wright, brought the largest audience in history to the downtown La Jolla gallery. Mr. York is currently writing a biography of Wright apprentice Sim Bruce Richards, chronicling Craig Ellwood’s furniture designs for a forthcoming book, Craig Ellwood: Self Made Modern, and preparing an exhibition celebrating the San Diego work by architectural photographer Julius Shulman.