{"id":15057,"date":"2011-11-04T00:11:09","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T04:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=15057"},"modified":"2011-11-04T00:11:09","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T04:11:09","slug":"present-self-tina-chang-claire-kageyama-ramakrishnan-and-monica-youn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=15057","title":{"rendered":"Present Self: Tina Chang, Claire Kageyama-Ramakrishnan, and Monica Youn"},"content":{"rendered":"
Friday, November 4 \u00b7 7:00pm – 9:00pm<\/div>\n
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The Asian American Writers’ Workshop<\/p>\n
10-112 West 27th Street, 6th Floor Buzzer 600, New York, NY<\/div>\n
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Four Way Books teams up with the Workshop to present an all-star poetry line-up featuring Brooklyn Poet Laureate Tina Chang, National Book Award finalist Monica Youn, and award-winning author Claire Kageyama- Ramakrishnan. In Ignatz, Monica Youn tackles George Harriman’s legendary Krazy Kat comic to extract Ignatz the mouse and expand upon his role as the defiant object of Krazy’s pursuit. What emerges is both sharp and sad — a… collection of the ways desire shapes the beloved and makes him unearthly. Tina Chang will read from her new book of poems, Of Gods & Strangers, which poet Tracy K. Smith calls a “large-scale epic, sifting through the embers and emblems of outlived eras, and carrying what it finds back toward the future.” The evening will close with a reading by Claire Kageyama- Ramakrishnan debuting her second, highly-anticipated work Bear, Diamonds and Crane in which she recounts, in a voice Blas Falconer calls “familiar and fresh, heartbreaking […] and humorous,” the legacy of Manzanar and the struggle of individuals measuring their place in history. Join us as we sift through what constitutes present identities, with wine (it helps).<\/p>\n

@The Asian American Writers’ Workshop
\n110-112 West 27th Street, 6th Floor
\nBetween 6th and 7th Avenues
\nBuzzer 600<\/p>\n

open to the public
\n$5 suggested donation<\/p>\n

Tina Chang was raised in New York City. The current Brooklyn Poet Laureate, she is the author of Of Gods & Strangers (Four Way Books), Half-Lit Houses (Four Way Books) and co-editor of the anthology Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond (W.W. Norton). Her poems have been published in American Poet, Indiana Review, McSweeney\u2019s, The Missouri Review, Ploughshares, Quarterly West, and Sonora Review, among others. She has received awards from the Academy of American Poets, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, Poets & Writers, the Van Lier Foundation, among others. She teaches poetry at Sarah Lawrence College.<\/p>\n

Claire Kageyama-Ramakrishnan was born in Santa Monica and raised in Los Angeles. She received her B.A. in English from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, earned an M.F.A. in poetry from the University of Virginia, where she was a Henry Hoyns Fellow, and completed her M.A. in literature at the University of California at Berkeley. At the University of Houston she was a Cambor Fellow and earned a Ph.D. in literature and creative writing. She is a full-time instructor at Houston Community College, Central Campus. She lives in Houston with her husband, Raj, a scientist specializing in HIV\/AIDS research at Baylor College of Medicine, and their three cats. She continues to grow her hair and donate 8 inch locks to create wigs for cancer patients.<\/p>\n

Monica Youn is the author of Barter and Ignatz, which was a finalist for the 2010 National Book Award. She has published poems in numerous journals and anthologies including Fence, The Paris Review, and Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century. She has been a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and a Witter Bynner Fellow of the Library of Congress and has received residencies from Yaddo, MacDowell and the Rockefeller Foundation \/ Bellagio. She has taught creative writing at Pratt Institute and Columbia University, and is currently the Brennan Center Constitutional Fellow at NYU Law School.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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