ROHNERT PARK - Carl Jensen, founder of Project Censored, will read a selection of prose poems from his latest book "Censored America: An Epic Prose Poem" at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Dec. 5 in the Poetry Reading Room of the Jean and Charles Schulz Information Center at Sonoma State University.
The reading will be accompanied by the "Ambient Noise" group featuring percussionist Gordon Spear, sound effects engineer Sandra Jensen, and videographer Barbara Spear. The performance has been called "Beat Prosody" by the Pacific Sun and "An Evening With a Paradox" since both Jensen, a sociologist, and Spear, an SSU astronomy professor, hold doctorates.
The prose poems are drawn from nearly 25 years of Project Censored, the nationally renowned media research project founded by Jensen at Sonoma State University in 1976.
Prose poems featured during the reading will include "Acid Rain, Who Owns America," "Unsafe At Any Speed," "The Cruelest Fashion," "Milking the American Public," and " The Sistine Chapel Breeches."
The Poetry Reading Room is located on the third floor of the Jean and Charles Schulz Information Center on the SSU campus, 1801 E. Cotati Ave., Rohnert Park. The reading, sponsored by Project Censored, is free. For more information, call Project Censored at 664-2500.
