reading @ weho bookfair with other red hen authors tomorrow!
For those in the area, I'll be reading this Sunday at 4pm with other Red Hen Press authors at The Robertson Salon at the West Hollywood Book Fair this Sunday.
xoxo,
Ching-In
September 28, 2008
West Hollywood Book Fair
West Hollywood Park: 647 N. San Vicente Blvd.
free admission and parking (at Pacific Design Center)
Check out all their fab events: http://www.westhollywoodbookfair.org/
http://www.westhollywoodbookfair.org/
4:00-4:45
"Language Moves"
Red Hen Press poets old and new read from their work in a celebration of independent voices in California poetry.
Featured Poets:
Ching-In Chen
Terry Wolverton
Joël Barraquiel Tan
Elizabeth Bradfield
Ching-In Chen is the author of The Heart's Traffic (Arktoi Books/Red Hen Press, 2009). A community organizer, she has worked in the Asian American communities of San Francisco, Oakland, and Boston, and was part of the first Mangos With Chili queer and trans people of color performance tour. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Water~Stone Review, Fifth Wednesday Journal, OCHO and Yellow as Turmeric, Fragrant as Cloves. A Kundiman Fellow, Ching-In is currently in the MFA program at UC Riverside.
Terry Wolverton is the author of five books: Embers, a novel in poems; Insurgent Muse: life and art at the Woman's Building, a memoir; Bailey's Beads, a novel; and two collections of poetry: Black Slip and Mystery Bruise. A new novel, The Labrys Reunion, is forthcoming from Haworth Press. She has also edited thirteen literary anthologies, including Mischief, Caprice, and Other Poetic Strategies. She is the founder of Writers At Work, a creative writing center in Los Angeles, where she teaches fiction and poetry.
Joël Barraquiel Tan is the Director of Community Engagement at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, Ca. His publications include Type Negative O (forthcoming Red Hen Press, 2008), El Canto de Animal (Noice Press, 2006) and Monster- Poems (Noice Press, 2002). Tan has been nominated for Lambda Literary Award, Best Anthology, 1998, and received his M.F.A. in Creative Writing and Literature from Antioch University.
Elizabeth Bradfield is the author of Interpretive Work (Arktoi Books/Red Hen Press, 2008). She grew up in Tacoma, Washington, lived for a time on Cape Cod and in Alaska, and is currently perched in California, where she is a Wallace Stegner fellow in poetry at Stanford University. Elizabeth holds an MFA from the University of Alaska Anchorage, and her poetry has been published in such journals as The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Field, and is forthcoming in Ploughshares and Orion.
xoxo,
Ching-In
September 28, 2008
West Hollywood Book Fair
West Hollywood Park: 647 N. San Vicente Blvd.
free admission and parking (at Pacific Design Center)
Check out all their fab events: http://www.westhollywoodbookfair.org/
http://www.westhollywoodbookfair.org/
4:00-4:45
"Language Moves"
Red Hen Press poets old and new read from their work in a celebration of independent voices in California poetry.
Featured Poets:
Ching-In Chen
Terry Wolverton
Joël Barraquiel Tan
Elizabeth Bradfield
Ching-In Chen is the author of The Heart's Traffic (Arktoi Books/Red Hen Press, 2009). A community organizer, she has worked in the Asian American communities of San Francisco, Oakland, and Boston, and was part of the first Mangos With Chili queer and trans people of color performance tour. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Water~Stone Review, Fifth Wednesday Journal, OCHO and Yellow as Turmeric, Fragrant as Cloves. A Kundiman Fellow, Ching-In is currently in the MFA program at UC Riverside.
Terry Wolverton is the author of five books: Embers, a novel in poems; Insurgent Muse: life and art at the Woman's Building, a memoir; Bailey's Beads, a novel; and two collections of poetry: Black Slip and Mystery Bruise. A new novel, The Labrys Reunion, is forthcoming from Haworth Press. She has also edited thirteen literary anthologies, including Mischief, Caprice, and Other Poetic Strategies. She is the founder of Writers At Work, a creative writing center in Los Angeles, where she teaches fiction and poetry.
Joël Barraquiel Tan is the Director of Community Engagement at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, Ca. His publications include Type Negative O (forthcoming Red Hen Press, 2008), El Canto de Animal (Noice Press, 2006) and Monster- Poems (Noice Press, 2002). Tan has been nominated for Lambda Literary Award, Best Anthology, 1998, and received his M.F.A. in Creative Writing and Literature from Antioch University.
Elizabeth Bradfield is the author of Interpretive Work (Arktoi Books/Red Hen Press, 2008). She grew up in Tacoma, Washington, lived for a time on Cape Cod and in Alaska, and is currently perched in California, where she is a Wallace Stegner fellow in poetry at Stanford University. Elizabeth holds an MFA from the University of Alaska Anchorage, and her poetry has been published in such journals as The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Field, and is forthcoming in Ploughshares and Orion.