Wednesday, August 17 07pm
\nAsian American Writer’s Workshop
\n112 West 27th Street #600, New York, NY 10001
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Come through for our second installment of Process Talks\u2014a salon-style multimedia show-n-tell, where innovative poets and novelists will screen the images that have been haunting their writing and discuss their writing process. We\u2019re featuring award-winning poets Victoria Chang and Andrew Lam (both joining us for a rare visit from out of town), and emerging poets Monica Ong Reed and Eugenia Leigh.<\/p>\n
Victoria Chang\u2019s third book of poems, The Boss (McSweeney 2013) won a PEN Center Literary Award and a California Book Award. Her second book, Salvinia Molesta (University of Georgia Press 2008) took its title from a noxious weed to explore corporate greed, infidelity and desire, and historical atrocities, including the excesses of the Cultural Revolution in China and the massacre of Chinese people in Nanking by Japanese troops in World War II. Her first book, Circle (Southern Illinois University Press 2005), won the Crab Orchard Review Open Competition Award. She also edited an anthology, Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation (University of Illinois Press 2004). She also wrote the New York Times Notable children\u2019s picture books Is Mommy? (Beach Lane Books\/Simon & Schuster 2015), illustrated by Caldecott winner, Marla Frazee.<\/p>\n