[EDLING:1912] CFP: CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF TEACHERS OF ENGLISH (CATE)

[Francis M. Hult]

http://www.cateweb.org/

CALL for PRESENTERS

CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF TEACHERS OF ENGLISH (CATE)

48th Annual Convention:
Fertile Ground: A Landscape of Voices 

February 9-11, 2007
Fresno Radisson Hotel and Conference Center
Fresno, California CATE invites you to present a session at CATE 2007. Our 
theme is 
Fertile Ground: A Landscape of Voices. 
Deadline for submissions: October 15, 2006 

Welcome to Fresno, the land of fertile soil and prolific writers and artists. 
Our Convention theme captures the agricultural, literary, and artistic past 
and present of the San Joaquin Valley. In addition to highlighting poets and 
authors from the Valley, our program includes an exciting line-up of key 
speakers:

• Firoozeh Dumas, highly acclaimed author of Funny in Farsi, A Memoir of 
Growing up in America. 
• Jane Hirshfield, winner of the 70th Academy Fellowship for poetic 
achievement by the Academy of American Poets. 
• Billy Collins, the 2001 U.S. Poet Laureate and finalist for the Lenore 
Marshall Poetry Prize. 
• Anchee Min, Chinese born author of Red Azalea and Katherine, stories of the 
horrors of the Cultural Revolution. 
• David Mas Masumoto, author, columnist, and organic peach and grape farmer in 
south Fresno.