Mitski, Phoebe Bridges, Jay Som, Poetry by Monica Mody @ Noise Pop 2016

I am very excited to be reading poetry at Noise Pop 2016 tomorrow! If you still need tickets to the show, get them here.

A Midwinter Reading

Hosted by the gracious Melissa Mack: be invited! 

(Email me for directions)

THE HUNDY

I love the Bay Area. The Bay Area is mad for poetry! There are 100 poets reading at Oakland's E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore as part of THE HUNDY, a 15 day daily poetry extravaganza, and you will agree with me that it is quite excessive and marvelous!

I am on tomorrow, in the double-header curated by Carrie Hunter and Andrea-Abi Karam. Come one, come all!

Tonight with Hearts Desire & Dirty Swan Projects at The Omni Commons

Nico Peck and Sara Larsen launch their first full-length collections tonight, and I will be joining them at this exciting reading/event:

Nico's THE PYRRHIAD (Dirty Swan Projects)
Sara's ALL REVOLUTIONS WILL BE FABULOUS (Printing Press)

7-9pm, @ Omni Oakland Commons, 4799 Shattuck Ave, Oakland, CA

More info:

https://omnicommons.org/calendar/events/hearts-desire-and-dirty-swan-projects-presents-nico-peck-sara-larsen-and-monica-mody/

https://www.facebook.com/events/543223275812387/

AAWW's TO DO list for you this Friday

1) Travel to the colony of world travelers. 2) Code-switch. 3) Get vulnerable and fluctuate. 4) Come to our wild reading with some of our favorite emerging poets: Jenny Zhang, Wendy Xu, Monica Mody, and Monica McClure. Rookie contributor Jenny Zhang--possibly the poet most mentioned when we get internship and job applications--is “a 21st century Whitman, only female, Chinese, and profoundly scatological" (Elizabeth Robinson). Ruth Lilly Fellow Wendy Xu--whose You Are Not Dead (Cleveland State University Poetry Center 2013) was one of Poets & Writers's picks for top poetry debuts--"plunder through our lives, collecting the oddest and most significant things, turning our thoughts toward things we couldn’t have known before she turned us toward them" (Dara Wier). Take a dive in the black waters of Monica Mody’s shamanic-futuristic Kala Pani (1913 press 2013), the best bonkers, ritualistic-bureaucratic, anti-imperial, terraforming poetry book ever written about lentils. Latina gurlesque poet Monica McClure’s new book Tender Data (Birds LLC 2014) offers a hash-tagged, slippery, code-switching take on gender-making, class warfare, and vexed relationships--that’s 100% chiflada.

Asian American Writers' Workshop 
112 W 27th Street, 6FL, New York, NY 10001
Friday, November 7, 2014, 7:00pm

Monica McClure’s debut poetry collection Tender Data (Birds LLC) comes out in the spring. The curator of the Atlas Reading Series, she also wrote the chapbooks Mood Swing (Snacks Press 2013) and Mala (Poor Claudia) and co-edited with Brenda Shaughnessy the anthology Both and Neither: Biracial American Writers. Read an interview with her here.

Monica Mody’s first book, KALA PANI, just came out from 1913 Press. Bhanu Kapil calls her “a poet of sacrifice” who writes “to us from the space behind the sun.” Monica has worked with Breakthrough, the global human rights organization, on their program areas, as well as with the Centre for Feminist Legal Research as a film festival coordinator. Her engagement with social justice and feminist/queer issues draws on her citizen/alien selves as much as on her evolving ideas of spiritual participation. Through 2007-08, Monica curated Open Baithak, a multilingual poetry in performance series in Delhi. Check out her conversation with Cathy Linh Che here.

Wendy Xu is the author of You Are Not Dead (Cleveland State University Poetry Center 2013), which was profiled by Poets & Writers Magazine as one of the year’s best debut books. A Ruth Lilly Fellow, she is the co-editor and publisher of iO: A Journal of New American Poetry / iO Books, and former curator of the jubilat / Jones reading series. Here she is at the poetry foundation.

Jenny Zhang could be the poet most mentioned as their favorite when we get internship applications. Her poetry collection Dear Jenny, We Are All Find (Octopus Books, 2012) has become a sort of classic. Hear her talk about how she became a ghoul here! She’s a regular contributor to Rookie, curates Stain of Poetry, a monthly reading series in Bushwick.

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Reading tonight at Lit Crawl San Francisco

I am absolutely looking forward to the reading tonight -- Seas & Islands: Five First-Book Authors from SPD. 8:30pm at Adobe Books, with Meg Day, MG Roberts, Alana Siegel, and Zoe Tuck. Hope to see you there if you can make it! 

From Trauma to Catharsis: Performing the Asian Avant Garde

The symposium, hosted by the MFA program at CIIS, begins today!

I perform tonight and present on Sunday.

Also in attendance:

Bhanu Kapil
Cheena Marie Lo
Ching-In Chen
D'Loco Kid
Geneva Chao
Jai Arun Ravine
Jason Magabo Perez
MG Roberts
Margaret Rhee
Ronaldo Wilson
Pireeni Sundaralingam
Sean Labrador y Manzano
Soham Patel
Truong Tran

& YOU?

The full schedule is here!