Cogswell College, an historic, 600-student educational institution offering a unique curriculum fusing Digital Art, Engineering and Entrepreneurship, has announced the launch of COG -- a multimedia publication launched yesterday by noted writer and Cogswell Professor Soma Mei Sheng Frazier and the students who comprise her English 299STHA publishing course. Please see: www.cogzine.com
Frazier and her class have created an All-Star Literary Lineup that will be featured within Issue 1 of COG. Artist Ajuan Mance, whose 1001 Black Men series has earned attention, is creating the Issue 1 cover, which will depict a figure drawing with cogs integrated within.
Highlights will include:
** The announcement of the COG: Page to Screen Awards, a national literary competition open to everyone and adjudicated in 2015-16 by Daniel Handler, author of the Lemony Snicket book series. The winning piece from each years competition will be adapted as a short animated film, 2D animation, graphic novel or interpretive illustration series by Cogswell College's Digital Art & Animation students. Says Handler, A literary contest is like a full moon. It casts a striking and comforting glow across the bleak sky, and turns a small number of people into werewolves.
** The announcement of the COG: Poetry Awards, a national poetry competition judged in 2015-16 by celebrated poet A. Van Jordan. The winning poetry set will also be adapted as visual art by Cogswell's Digital Art & Animation students.
** Brief text interviews with literary luminary Gish Jen, and with NPR/PRI's Snap Judgment radio show host Glynn Washington, along with Cogswell's Academic Dean and Director of Game Design & Development, Jerome Solomon.
** New work by award-winning poet Arisa White, who has been featured on rap star Jay-Z's website;
; celebrated fiction writer Molly Giles; author and performance artist Opal Palmer Adisa; rising musical group Antique Naked Soul; author/editor Ron Austin; Rad Dad creator Tomas Moniz, and others.
** The first issue of COG will also premiere Cogitate, an original audio broadcast formatted similarly to NPR's Snap Judgment and This American Life radio programs.
At present, plans are underway for three online issues, and one print issue, per year for COG. Frazier and her students are also planning various promotional events on behalf of COG, including an on-campus speaking event with Dan Handler/Lemony Snicket that will be open to 50-80 local residents, and readings and performances by the publications high-caliber contributors and supporters, in 2016.
We are delighted to be launching COG, said Dr. Deborah Snyder, President, Cogswell College. Our goal with COG is to increase our school's visibility on a national level. Those of our students who work on the creation of COG will also be enhancing their resumes and job prospects by enabling them to staff a soon-to-be nationally known publication. Professor Soma Frazier, who is leading this effort, is a gifted writer. An award-winning author and active member of the literary community, she is the perfect person to be helming the launch of COG!
Adds Frazier, I developed COG with a dual purpose: First, to offer audiences a fresh, unique and carefully curated publication, and secondly, to give my students a hands-on, multimedia publishing experience. We will strive to make COG as credible as ZYZZYVA,' Glimmer Train or Ploughshares,' with the added digital art component that is our students sweet spot. I look forward to the day COG is recognized by art and literature lovers everywhere, as well as Poets & Writers,' AWP,' and other similar outlets.
She adds, The first thing I asked our student staff as we were conceiving COG was, What do Lemony Snicket, NPR/PRI's Glynn Washington, Gish Jen, Molly Giles, Paul S.Flores, Opal Palmer Adisa, Antique Naked Soul, Arisa White, Tomas Moniz, Ron Austin, and other stellar artists, musicians, and writers all have in common?' It was the first day of our Fall 2015 class. They stared blankly until I answered with: The first Issue of Cog.' My next question to the class was: How will we top that all-star lineup in Issue Two?' Stay tuned to COG for the answer...
ABOUT SOMA MEI SHENG FRAZIER:
Soma Mei Sheng Frazier serves as Assistant Professor and Chair, English and the Humanities, at San Jose's Cogswell College. Her book Collateral Damage: A Triptych earned praise from Nikki Giovanni, Daniel Handler, author of the Lemony Snicket book series, Antonya Nelson, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, and others. Fraziers second book is forthcoming in 2016 from Nomadic press, along with scheduled to appear in ZYZZYVA and Glimmer Train, as she completes a novel and screenplay.
A native of rural New Hampshire, Frazier supplemented a basic public school education with whatever additional opportunities her mother's income - or her own resourcefulness - could afford. These included her attending Odyssey of the Mind, the St. Paul's School Advanced Studies Program, the Governor's Mentorship Program, and a Creative Writing course that she finagled her way into auditing at Dartmouth College while still in high school.
After graduating high school, Frazier attended Middlebury's intensive summer immersion program in Japanese. She later earned a B.A. in Asian Studies from Pomona College, and an M.F.A. in Writing at Sarah Lawrence College. She has taught in prisons and schools alike.
ABOUT COGSWELL COLLEGE:
Designed as a fiercely collaborative, living laboratory, Cogswell College is located in the heart of the legendary Silicon Valley in San Jose, California. The school is a WASC accredited, four-year institution of higher education with a specialized curriculum that fuses digital arts, audio technology, game design, engineering and entrep
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Cogswell College, an historic, 600-student educational institution offering a unique curriculum fusing Digital Art, Engineering and Entrepreneurship, has announced the launch of COG -- a multimedia publication launched yesterday by noted writer and Cogswell Professor Soma Mei Sheng Frazier and the students who comprise her English 299STHA publishing course. Please see: www.cogzine.com
