[New-Poetry] TOMORROW, Friday, May 22nd @ 7 p.m. -- Ken Chen ** Johannes Göransson ** Cathy Park Hong ** Joyelle McSweeney

[amy king]

Join us for an extra May Stain! 

 

TOMORROW, Friday, May 22nd @ 7 p.m.

 

Ken Chen ** Johannes Göransson ** Cathy Park Hong ** Joyelle
McSweeney

 

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Ken Chen is the Executive Director of The Asian American
Writers' Workshop. He is the 2009 recipient of the Yale Series of Younger Poets
Award. His work has been published in Best American Essays 2006 and was
recently recognized in Best American Essays 2007. He started Satellite: The
Berkeley Magazine of News + Culture and also helped found Arts & Letters
Daily, a cultural website.

 

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Johannes Göransson was born in Sweden,
but has lived around the US
for several years. He is the author of: Dear Ra (Starcherone, 2008), Pilot
(Fairy Tale Review Press, 2008) and A New Quarantine Will Take My Place
(Apostrophe Books, 2007)—and the chapbook Majakovskij en tragedy (Dos Press,
2008). He is also the translator of: Collobert Orbital by Johan Jonsson,
Gingerbread Monuments by Victor Johansson & Klara Kallstrom, Ideals
Clearance by Henry Parland, Remainland: Selected Poems by Aase Berg, and, most
recently, With Deer by Aase Berg, out from Black Ocean. He is the co-editor of
Action Books and the online journal Action, Yes.

 

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Cathy Park Hong’s first book, Translating Mo’um was
published in 2002 by Hanging Loose Press. Her second collection, Dance Dance
Revolution, was chosen for the Barnard Women Poets Prize and was published in
2007 by WW Norton. Hong is also the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, a
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Village Voice Fellowship for
Minority Reporters. Her poems have been published in A Public Space, Paris
Review, Poetry, American Letters & Commentary, Denver Quarterly, Jubilat,
and other journals, and she has reported for the Village Voice, The Guardian,
Salon, and Christian Science Monitor. She now lives in New
 York City and is an Assistant Professor at Sarah Lawrence
 College.

 

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Joyelle McSweeney is the author of the novels Flet (Fence)
and Nylund the Sarcographer (Tarpaulin Sky Press) and the poetry books The Red
Bird and The Commandrine and Other Poems. She teaches in the MFA Program at
Notre Dame and is a co-founder of Action Books.

 

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stain

766 grand street

brooklyn, ny 11211

(L train to Grand
  Street, 1 block west)

718/387-7840

open daily @ 5 p.m.

 

Enjoy local beers, wines, and lite fare -- PLUS, the garden
is open!  

 

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Hosted by Amy King and Ana Božičević

 

http://www.stainofpoetry.com/

 

 



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