Women of Color: writing

Sherry Quan Lee and Anya Achtenberg will read from their recently published books:

Friday, August 22, 2008, 7:00 pm, at Amazon Bookstore Cooperative, 4755 Chicago Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55407. (612) 821-9630 or http://www.amazonfembks.com/ �Founded in 1970, Amazon Bookstore Cooperative, Inc. is the oldest independent feminist bookstore in North America.�

Check out Sherry's and Anya's Web pages:

http://www.sherryquanlee.com
http://anyaachtenberg.com/

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Intermedia Arts presents:
Sherry Quan Lee
&
Lorissa Gottschalk

hosted by Anna George Meek
sponsored in part by Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts
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Next FRIDAY
7:30 PM
June 13, 2008
Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts
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SHERRY QUAN LEE, author of Chinese Blackbird, approaches writing as a community resource and as culturally based art of an ordinary everyday practical aesthetic. Quan Lee is the Program Associate for the Split Rock Arts Program summer workshops and the Online Mentoring for Writers Program at the University of Minnesota where she also earned her MFA in Creative Writing. Recently retired from teaching Creative Writing at Metropolitan State University, she now hopes to complete her second book, How to Write A Suicide Note: Serial Essays that Saved A Woman’s Life. She was a former curator of the monthly Women of Color Readings at Patrick’s Cabaret sponsored by Intermedia Arts. Fall, at Intermedia, she taught Stories that Save Lives: an interdisciplinary workshop for women of color. Her blog is Women of Color: writing. And her Web site is http://www.tc.umn.edu/~leexx065/.
LORISSA GOTTSCHALK is a writing instructor and the Center for Academic Excellence Coordinator at Globe University. Her work has appeared in Water~Stone, Confluence, and the Kaori Kenmotsu Dance Project. She is a scholarship recipient of the Prague Summer Writing Program and recently participated in the Intermedia Arts Writer-to-Writer Mentorship Program. This summer, Lorissa has been granted three weeks at the Soaring Garden Writing Residency in Pennsylvania where she will continue to work on her book, The Art of Containment: A Handbook on Grief for Survivors. Lorissa resides in St. Paul, Minnesota where she is a student in the M.F.A. program at Hamline University.

Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts
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TEN MINUTES FROM DOWNTOWN MINNEAPOLIS
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CAROLYN HOLBROOK AND SHERRY QUAN LEE

Color Theory for the 21st Century: Beyond the Pure
Readings by Writers of Color

MARCH 13, 2008

Curated by Sun Yung Shin
Every second Thursday

7:00 PM at Patrick’s Cabaret

3010 Minnehaha Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55406

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Color Theory For the 21st Century: Beyond the Pure
Readings by Writers of Color
Thursday, February 14, 2008
7:00 PM at Patrick’s Cabaret
3010 Minnehaha Ave, Minneapolis
Free and open to the public

Katie LeoKatie Leo is an adopted Korean writer, actor, and educator. Her work has appeared in 60 Seconds to Shine: Monologues for Men, Talking Stick Vol. 13, Journal of the Asian American Renaissance, and HardKore, a lit mag out of Koreatown, Chicago. She also has work forthcoming in the anthology, Belonging: Words and Images of Home. She is an MFA candidate in writing at the University of Minnesota.

Arlene Jiyoung Kim, a 2nd-generation Korean-American, grew up in the DC area, graduated from Brown University in 1995, and worked in Seattle as an editor for MSNBC before moving to Minneapolis. She is currently in the University of Minnesota's graduate writing program for poetry.

call for applicationsSpring 2008 Writer-to-Writer Mentorships
**Deadline Extended**
Application Deadline: Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Download the Application Form (122KB PDF) Writer-to-Writer is an adult mentorship program that gives advanced writers the opportunity to reach their next level of artistic development. Writer-to-Writer creates intimate relationships between artists; participants meet regularly throughout the semester, with one established writer mentoring four to six advanced writers. Mentors act as artistic catalysts and partners, providing each mentee with artistic feedback and professional guidance. Each Writer-to-Writer session culminates in a public reading and reception in which mentees and mentors read from their bodies of work.

go to: http://www.intermediaarts.org

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"Sound & Rhythm in Poetry"
Wed. February 13, 2008
2:30 pm
Bell Museum @ the U of MN
free and open to the public

신 선 � Sun Yung Shin
http://www.sunyungshin.com/

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Hey everyone,

Happy new year if I haven't seen you yet in '08!

I wanted to update all of you on my upcoming local Twin Cities poetry readings.

I'll be reading all new work, and all readings are free and open to the public.

Thanks! Cheers,

SY

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Sunday 1/20 5 p.m. @ Magers & Quinn with other winners of the What Light contest / Mnartists.org / Walker Art Center / McKnight.

Friday 1/25 7 p.m. @ The Loft with Korean American poet Lee Herrick from Fresno, California (with his debut collection This Many Miles From Desire) and local Lao writer Bryan Thao Worra. It's a freakishly unusual all-Asian-Adoptee lineup--all of us with first books in '07!

Thursday 2/14 7 p.m. @ Patrick's Cabaret -- I'm hosting two stellar U of M MFA students / Korean American poets Katie Leo, also a playwright and performer, & Arlene Kim / for the monthly Writers of Color Reading Series through SASE/Intermedia Arts. Co-sponsored by Patrick's Cabaret.

Thursday 2/21 7 p.m. solo for the 14th Annual Fireside Reading Series through the Friends of the Library @ the Hamline Midway Branch Library, 1558 W. Minnehaha Avenue, St. Paul. There will be coffee, cookies and cider, provided by Ginkgo Coffeehouse. Supported by Micawber's Books.

Tuesday 2/26 @ 7 p.m. with Korean American superstar-poet Ed Bok Lee in conjunction with the visit of Korean Studies scholar David McCann from Harvard University. Sponsored by the Consortium for the Study of the Asias at the University of Minnesota.

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Writers of Color Reading Series
>Thursday, January 10, 2008
>7:00 PM at Patrick's Cabaret
>3010 Minnehaha Ave, Minneapolis
>
>Hosted by Sun Yung Shin
>Free and open to the public
>
>Featuring:
>
>SHANNON GIBNEY's poetry has appeared in Black Renaissance Noire, Wicked
>Alice and the Bellingham Review, and is forthcoming in PMS. You can
>find her nonfiction in Essence Magazine and Outsiders Within (South End
>Press, 2006). Gibney was awarded a 2005 Bush Artist Fellowship and the
>2002 Hurston/Wright Award in fiction. Her short fiction is forthcoming
>in Tea Party, and has appeared in Brilliant Corners. She is a 2002
>graduate of Indiana University's MFA program in fiction, and also holds
>an MA in 20th Century African American literature from that
>institution. Currently, she is at at work on a novel that chronicles
>the journeys of 19 th century African Americans who colonized Liberia,
>and BROWN ON BROWN, an anthology of essays on building coalition
>between communities of color. Find out more at shannongibney.net
>
>CHRISTY NaMEE ERICKSON was born in the year of the Ox to a shopgirl in
>Korea. She was raised in Alaska and went to school in St. Paul. She
>tries to be good, but not very hard.
>
>This Carol Connolly Reading is co-sponsored by Patrick's Cabaret.
>For more information, call (612) 871-4444 or visit
>www.intermediaarts.org .
>
>
>--

>½Å ¼± ¿µ Sun Yung Shin
>http://www.sunyungshin.com/

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Asian American Poetry Triple Header!


Host: Bryan Thao Worra
Location: The Loft Literary Center
1011 Washington Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55415 US
When: Friday, January 25, 7:00PM
Phone: (651) 815-5490

Join us for a unique reading in Minnesota as California-based poet Lee Herrick joins Twin Cities poets Sun Yung Shin and Bryan Thao Worra for a one-night-only performance!

Each will present incredible work from their 2007 debut collections of poetry!

The event is free and there will be food and refreshments, door prizes and a chance to meet the authors:

Lee Herrick was born in Seoul, South Korea and adopted at eleven months. He is the author of This Many Miles from Desire.

His poems have been published in the Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, Berkeley Poetry Review, Hawaii Pacific Review, Many Mountains Moving, The Bloomsbury Review, MiPOesias, and others, including anthologies such as Seeds from a Silent Tree: Writings by Korean Adoptees. He has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and was a 2000 Los Angeles Poetry Festival Award finalist.

In Skirt Full of Black, Sun Yung Shin employs the techniques of investigative poetry and collage to craft a nuanced, unique language for navigating the politics of gender, ethnicity, and identity. As she spins new myths from Christian and Buddhist traditions and bestows new connotations upon the characters of the Korean alphabet, she gives voice to the spiritual and cultural hunger of those caught between the two.

Bryan Thao Worra's On The Other Side Of The Eye is the first book of Laotian American speculative poetry and is a journey to the hidden edges of the universe and the human soul, examining secret wars and ancient kingdoms, myth, history, science and dreams, drawing on over 17 years of his work that has appeared internationally.

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