Kundiman Poetry reading in the Bay to celebrate NYC poets Ocean and Tamiko and their publications! with Debbie, Margaret, and Truong!!
Facebook event here: https://www.facebook.com/events/219838354842419/
Hosted by the Handsomest: Dan Lau
Come celebrate with us the new publications of
Tamiko's WE COME ELEMENTAL
(ALICE JAMES BOOKS, 2013)
& Ocean's NO (YES YES BOOKS, 2013)
at EASTWIND BOOKS of BERKELEY
2066 University Ave
Berkeley, CA 94704
Saturday, September 28 at 4:30pm
REMEMBER: KUNDIMAN IS LOVE.
Bios Below
OCEAN VUONG!
Born in Saigon, Vietnam, Ocean Vuong is the author of two chapbooks: NO (YesYes Books, 2013) and BURNINGS (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2010), which was an American Library Association's Over The Rainbow selection. A recipient of a 2014 Pushcart Prize, other honors include fellowships from Kundiman, Poets House, and the Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, as well as the 2012 Stanley Kunitz Prize for Younger Poets and an Academy of American Poets Prize. Poems appear in American Poetry Review, Crab Orchard Review, Quarterly West, Denver Quarterly, Guernica, Poetry Northwest, and The Normal School, amongst others. He lives in Queens, NY. (www.oceanvuong.tumblr.com)
DEBBIE YEE!
Debbie Yee's poems have appeared variously, including The Best American Poetry 2009, Bateau and Fence. A Kundiman fellow and San Francisco Arts Commission grant recipient in literary arts, Debbie lives in San Francisco where she is in-house counsel for a national bank and periodically teaches writing and Gocco printmaking. She has lately returned to blogging about crafts, cooking, motherhood, and sometimes poetry at linocat.com.
MARGARET RHEE!
Loves green tea ice cream, vegan foods, thinking about activism, dreams, and new media. Recent poems published and forthcoming at Berkeley Poetry Review, Hyphen Magazine, and Comma, Poetry. Her chapbook Yellow was published in 2011 by Tinfish Press. She is a Kundiman Fellow.
TRUONG TRAN!
Truong Tran is a Vietnamese-American poet, visual artist, and teacher.
His collection dust and consciousness (2002) won the San Francisco
Poetry
Center Book Prize is the author of several collections of
poetry. In 2003, he served as Writer in Residence for Intersection for
the Arts. Tran currently lives in San Francisco,where he teaches
creative writing at San Francisco State University, and is Writer in
Residence at theSan Francisco School of the Arts.
DAN LAU!
Dan Lau is a recipient of a Kundiman Fellowship, a William Dickey Fellowship, an Archie D. and Bertha Walker Scholarship from the FAWC in Provincetown,and an Individual Arts Commission grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission. His poem have appeared in Generations, Cape Cod Review, CRATE, Gesture, RHINO, The Collagist.
TAMIKO BEYER!
Tamiko Beyer is the author of We Come Elemental (Alice James Books), winner of the 2011 Kinereth Gensler Award, and bough breaks (Meritage Press). Her poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in The Volta, Octopus, Quarterly West, and elsewhere. She has received grants and fellowships from Kundiman, Astraea Lesbian Writers Fund, Hedgebrook, and Washington University in St. Louis where received her M.F.A.. Currently, she is the Senior Writer at Corporate Accountability International and lives in Cambridge, MA. Find her online at tamikobeyer.com.