{"id":14192,"date":"2011-10-05T03:28:25","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T07:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=14192"},"modified":"2011-10-05T23:36:18","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T03:36:18","slug":"awards-announcement-party-book-launch-ed-bok-lee-patrick-rosal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=14192","title":{"rendered":"Awards Announcement Party & Book Launch: Ed Bok Lee & Patrick Rosal"},"content":{"rendered":"
Friday, October 7 \u00b7 7:00pm – 10:00pm<\/div>\n
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Asian American Writers’ Workshop<\/p>\n
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110 – 112 West 27th Street, 6th Floor Between 6th and 7th Avenues Buzzer 600<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
New York, NY<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Celebrate the release of new books by Ed Bok Lee and Patrick Rosal, both past winners of the Asian American Literary Award Members’ Choice Award, and announce this year’s Asian Amerian Literary Award finalists. Best known for the groundbreaking and award-winning volume Real Karaoke People, Ed Bok Lee… will read from his new poetry collection Whorled, which poet Dobby Gibson promises, “will piss you off, crack you up, and leave you haunted by one of the most soulful love letters to language itself that you will ever read.” Patrick Rosal reads from his highly anticipated poetry collection, Boneshepherds, which Terrence Hayes praises as, “[l]aced with a hopefulness born not just of Patrick Rosal’s tremendous gifts as a poet, but of his humanity.”<\/div>\n
Both poets negotiate the often violent intersections of the personal, the political, and the profane to incendiary results, and we are pleased to launch their new collections to what will most certainly be future acclaimed. Speaking of which, we will also be announcing the finalists of the Fourteenth Annual Asian American Literary Awards in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, so come out, let loose, and we’ll juxtapose all night.<\/p>\n

Ed Bok Lee was raised in South Korea, North Dakota, and Minnesota. A former bartender, phys ed instructor, journalist, and translator, he studied in the U.S., South Korea, Kazakhstan, and Russia, earning an MFA from Brown University. Lee has shared his work in journals and anthologies, and on public radio and MTV, and teaches part time at Metropolitan State University in St. Paul. Lee is the author of Real Karaoke People, which was the winner of an Asian American Literary Award (Members\u2019 Choice) and the PEN Open Book Award, and most recently, Whorled.<\/p>\n

Patrick Rosal is the author of three full-length poetry collections, Boneshepherds, My American Kundiman, and Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive. His poems and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Tin House, American Poetry Review, Harvard Review, Drunken Boat, and Language for a New Century. He has won, among other honors, a Fulbright Fellowship, the Association of Asian American Studies Book Award, the Global Filipino Literary Award, and the Asian American Writers\u2019 Workshop Members\u2019 Choice Award. He is a member of the Creative Writing faculty at Rutgers University-Camden and the core faculty of Drew University\u2019s low-residency MFA.<\/p><\/div>\n

open to the public
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