[Cwgrad-announcements] Ching-In's Reading Events!

[athom011 at student.ucr.edu]

Ching-In's participating in the following events. 
Feel free to help spread the word.
 
Ching-In will be reading at the Leimert Park Village
Book Festival in
LA this Saturday at the Vision Theater, 1:50-2pm.
http://www.leimertparkbookfair.com/

She'll also be performing at 2 National Queer Arts
Festival in San
Francisco in June (info below). Please spread the
word to any
interested Bay area folks!
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***Please Forward Widely! Buy Your Tickets in
Advance!***

The 2009 National Queer Arts Festival presents:

Testimonies, Chisme, Spilling the Tea: An Evening of
Poetry

Monday, June 8, 2009, Doors Open at 7pm; Show at
7:30pm
SOMArts, 934 Brannan Street, San Francisco, CA
Tickets: $12 - $20
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/66077

A literary event sure to sparkle, rectify and
incite, as established &
emerging poets scratch the page with literary
histories -- crossing
generations, genres and borders of any and all
imaginations. Join this
intergenerational entourage of fierce queer writers
and poets, as they
testify to the piercing pleasures of textual promise
in poetry.

Featuring Dorothy Allison, Ching-In Chen, Elana
Dykewomon, Rigoberto
González, Eloise Klein Healy, Cole Krawitz, D.A.
Powell, Ely Shipley &
Griselda Suárez. Hosted by Jewelle Gomez.

The event will be followed by a book signing &
reception.
For full program information visit:
http://www.queerculturalcenter.org/Pages/QFest09/Testim.html
On Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=78083877799

Co-sponsored by the Lambda Literary Foundation,
Graywolf Press & Red
Hen Press. This event is also supported by Poets &
Writers, through a
grant it has received from the James Irvine
Foundation.
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The 2009 National Queer Arts Festival presents:
Mythic Women, a celebration of small presses
Tuesday, June 16, 2009, 7:30pm
LGBT Center, Ceremonial Room
1800 Market St., San Francisco CA
Tickets: $12-$20
Buy Tickets on-line:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/66000

Celebrate the release of Maiana Minahal's Legend
Sondayo (Civil
Defense Press) and Ching-In Chen's The Heart's
Traffic (Arktoi
Books/Red Hen Press) and these independent presses
nurturing the
voices of queer women! Gathering an exuberant range
of voices,
aesthetics, and thematic concerns, this creative
showcase is a
celebration of the possibilities of queer women
poetics, incorporating
other poetic languages to reflect on the power of
myth, lineage and
history to expand/ limit our vision. Civil Defense
Press, local
activist and collectively-run press, continues to
publish work that
wouldn't otherwise find a home in the mainstream
publishing world.
Arktoi Books seeks to give lesbian writers more
access to "the
conversation" that having a book in print affords.

Featuring
Robyn Brooks ~ Ching-In Chen ~ Ananda Esteva ~ Judy
Grahn ~ Eloise
Klein Healy ~ Vanessa Huang ~ Danielle Montgomery ~
Leah Lakshmi
Piepzna-Samarasinha ~ Maiana Minahal ~ Rajasvini
Bhansali ~ Aimee
Suzara
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