August 21, 3:30 pm: West Coast Kundiman Reading, Part 4

VANESSA HUANG, MARGARET RHEE, RONALDO V. WILSON @ EASTWIND BOOKS OF
BERKELEY, 8/21, 3:30 pm

WEST COAST KUNDIMAN POETRY READING, PART 4

SATURDAY, AUGUST 21
3:30 PM

EASTWIND BOOKS OF BERKELEY
2066 University Ave. Between Shattuck and Milvia
Near Downtown Berkeley BART

Featuring:
VANESSA HUANG
MARGARET RHEE
RONALDO V. WILSON

VANESSA HUANG is a poet, writer and community organizer whose practice
feeds the resilience and embodiment of people, campaigns and movement
building from the margins. Her work draws on a history of
collaboration across the anti-prison, gender liberation, immigrant
rights, anti-violence, disability justice and reproductive justice
movements. Vanessa's current poetry manuscript "quiet of chorus" was a
finalist for Poets & Writers' 2010 California Writers Exchange Award.
Vanessa lives in Oakland and works as a teaching artist and consultant
for social justice organizations.

MARGARET RHEE is a poet, media artist and interdisciplinary scholar.
She co-edited the chapbook 'Here is a Pen: An Anthology of West Coast
Kundiman Poets' (Achiote Press, 2009) and has published poems in 'Back
Room Live' and the 'Berkeley Poetry Review.' She attended the
inaugural Kundiman poetry retreat and fell in love with poetry & there
there.

RONALDO V. WILSON is the author of Narrative of the Life of the Brown
Boy and the White Man, winner of the 2007 Cave Canem Poetry Prize
(University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008), andPoems of the Black Object,
winner of the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry  (Futurepoem Books,
2009).  He is a graduate of the PhD program in English at the CUNY
Graduate Center, and NYU's Graduate Creative Writing Program.  Wilson
has won numerous fellowships to include the Provincetown Fine Arts
Work Center, Cave Canem, Kundiman, Djerassi, and Yaddo. A co-founder
of the Black Took Collective, he teaches at Mount Holyoke College.

ABOUT EASTWIND BOOKS:
Eastwind Books of Berkeley has been serving the Asian American
community since 1982 and welcomes people to attend this wonderful
Kundiman event.
phone: 510 548-2350
fax: 510 548-3697
http://www.asiabookcenter.com/

July 11, 3 pm: West Coast Kundiman Poetry Reading

Sunday July 11
3:00 PM
Eastwind Books of Berkeley
2066 University Avenue, between Milvia St and Shattuck Ave
Berkeley, CA

Poetry Read by:

Lee Herrick, author of"This Many Miles from Desire"
Fuifuilupe Niumeitolu, co-editor of"Usos On Freeways: An Anthology of
Pacific IslanderWritersFrom/In the Continental United States"
Javier O. Huerta, author of"Some Clarifications y otros poemas"
Ching-In Chen, author of "The Heart's Traffic"
Jai Arun Ravine, author of "IS THIS JANUARY"

Performance by: Jezebel Delilah X

Emceed by: Jai Arun Ravine & Margaret Rhee

This reading is a fundraiser for Kundiman, a non-profit organization
that fosters emerging Asian American poets with an annual poetry
retreat. We are raising funds for a Kundiman West Coast Scholarship
Fund, which would support one Kundiman fellow from the West Coast to
attend the retreat for free, as well as a community activist/poet. So
far, we have raised $90.00 and hope to raise the full $300.00 by the
end of summer.

Eastwind Books of Berkeley has been serving the Asian American
community since 1982 and welcomes people to attend this wonderful
Kundiman event.
http://www.asiabookcenter.com/

& Special Book Raffle!

Books donated by poets, Joseph O. Legaspi, Oliver de la Paz, Ching-In
Chen, Lee Herrick, & Truong Tran!!! Give from the Heart and Win Big!!!