[Cwgrad-announcements] Poetry Reading in West Hollywood

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Join us:
Open House & Poetry Reading

June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives
626 N. Robertson Blvd.
West Hollywood, California 90069 (310) 659-2478 


Sunday, December 7, 2008
3-5 pm
Great friends & Good food!

Poetry Readings by:
Eloise Klein Healy
Ching-In Chen
Griselda Suarez
Eloise Klein Healy is the author of six books of poetry and three spoken word recordings. She was the founding chair of the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Antioch University Los Angeles where she is Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing Emerita. Healy directed the Women's Studies Program at California State University Northridge and taught in the Feminist Studio Workshop at The Woman's Building in Los Angeles. She is Poet-in-Residence at the Idyllwild Summer Poetry Festival, the co-founder of ECO-ARTS, an eco-tourism/arts venture, and founding editor of ARKTOI BOOKS, an imprint of Red Hen Press. Her latest collection of poems is The Islands Project: Poems For Sappho.
Ching-In Chen is the author of The Heart's Traffic (forthcoming from Arktoi Books/Red Hen Press ). The daughter of Chinese immigrants and a Kundiman Fellow, Ching-In has worked in the Asian American communities of San Francisco, Oakland, and Boston, as well as helped organize the third national Asian Pacific American Spoken Word and Poetry Summit in Boston. Her work has been recently published in Tea Party, Fifth Wednesday Journal, OCHO, Iron Horse Literary Review, and Water~Stone Review. Ching-In is in the MFA in Creative Writing Program at the University of California Riverside. 
Griselda Suarez currently teaches writing and literature at Cal State Long Beach University in the Chican@/Latin@ Studies Department. She lives with her wife of 3 years, or depending how you count, 10 in lesbian years. She was born in unincorporated East Los Angeles. She currently co-facilitates Café Cultura, an event that celebrates Latino art, music and performance. She was recently published in Sinister Wisdom Journal: Latina Lesbian poets and Acentos Literary Review. Her poetry chapbook, Concrete River Boulevard, published by Finishing Line Press will be available early next year. To keep her inspired, Griselda enjoys meditating over warm suds and dirty dishes. And if timing is right, you can catch her reenacting her Quinceañera and reading books on how to become a Mexican calendar girl.

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Ching-In Chen & Eloise Klein Healy 
December 14th, 2 p.m.
Poetry at the Ruskin
Red Hen Press, in association with the venerable Ruskin Art Club, is proud to announce Southern California's
acclaimed reading series, Poetry at the Ruskin. Featuring local and international poets, Poetry at the Ruskin will host the very best of today's artists.

Kate Gale, Managing Editor of Red Hen Press, and Elena Karina Byrne, past Regional Director of the Poetry
Society of America and Poetry Moderator and Consultant for the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, are your hosts.

Please join them for delightful readings by Ching-In Chen and Eloise Klein Healy, followed by a reception with complimentary refreshments. The Ruskin Art Club, founded in 1888, is Los Angeles' oldest cultural association. Its 1922 clubhouse was declared a Los Angeles Historical Monument in 1997.

Red Hen Press Reading Series
The Ruskin Art Club
800 S. Plymouth Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90005
310.669.2369 or 818.831.0649
Admission: General $10
Students & Seniors $5
Seating is limited and on a first come basis.
Ruskin Art Club
4111EV

This event is supported by Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from The James
Irvine Foundation. The City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, the Los Angeles County Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts partially support Red Hen Press.

Ching-In Chen is the author of The Heart's Traffic (Arktoi Books/Red Hen Press, 2009). Past
occupations include karaoke singer, flautist, 1st grade literacy teacher, community organizer,
construction job counselor, and a severely lost person in the Rocky Mountains. Her poems have
appeared or are forthcoming in Water~Stone Review, Fifth Wednesday Journal, OCHO and Yellow
as Turmeric, Fragrant as Cloves. A Kundiman Fellow, Ching-In is currently an MFA candidate at
UC Riverside.

Eloise Klein Healy is the author of six books of poetry, most recently, The Islands Project: Poems
for Sappho (Red Hen Press, 2007). Healy has been awarded artist residencies at The MacDowell
Colony and Dorland Mountain Colony. She directed the Women's Studies Program at CSU
Northridge and was founding chair of the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Antioch University
Los Angeles. Her imprint with Red Hen Press, Arktoi Books, specializes in publishing the work
of lesbian authors.
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Ching-In Chen
THE HEART'S TRAFFIC (Arktoi Books/Red Hen Press forthcoming 2009)
www.redhen.org/arktoi.asp
www.chinginchen.com