[CW-Grad] Lots of good news for Ching-In

[Robin Russin]

Personally, I'm beginning to think that Ching-In is actually triplets.  
No other way to explain it all.

:)




On Oct 3, 2009, at 10:33 AM, <athom011 at student.ucr.edu> wrote:

> Hey everyone!  Check out the following events and publications for  
> our very own third-year MFA student Ching-In Chen.
>
> ***As always, PLEASE send PERSONAL notes of contratulations DIRECTLY  
> TO Ching-In at Ching-In at chinginchen at gmail.com***
>
> Ching-In co-edited a chapbook of West Coast Kundiman poets (with  
> Margaret Rhee and Debbie Yee) entitled "Here Is a Pen" as a  
> fundraiser for the annual Kundiman Asian American Poets' Retreat,  
> which is published by Achiote Press and available now here: http://www.achiotepress.com/kundiman.htm
> UCR alum Neil Aitken, Ngoc Luu and Noel Mariano have poems published  
> in the chapbook.
>
> Ching-In was accepted into TeadaWorks' Lab which will culminate in a  
> March 2010 performance in TeadaWorks New Performance Festival at the  
> Nate Holden Performing Arts Center: http://www.teada.org/CurrentSeason.html
>
> Ching-In's poem, "Identification Song," appears in the current issue  
> of sous rature: http://www.necessetics.com/chen.html (Thanks to  
> Maurya Simon's workshop.)
>
> Ching-In's poems, "This Girl" and "Arrestable" appears in the  
> current issue of make/shift: http://www.makeshiftmag.com/
>
> Ching-In's book is reviewed in Bookdragon (Smithsonian Asian Pacific  
> American Program): http://bookdragon.si.edu/2009/09/24/the-hearts-traffic-by-ching-in-chen/
>
> Upcoming readings:
> West Hollywood Bookfair, Sunday 10/4
> Poetry Readings from Red Hen Press
> 11:45am-12:15pm (book signing 2-2:50pm)
> with Doug Kearney, Jamey Hecht & Brendan Constantine
> http://www.westhollywoodbookfair.org/schedule/the-salon-poetry-readings-stage-schedule/
>
> Poemeleon Reads
> 3-4pm
> with Jeannine Hall Gailey, Robert Krut, Michelle Bitting, Chella  
> Courington & Paul Lieber
> http://www.westhollywoodbookfair.org/schedule/the-lounge-poetry-readings-stage-schedule/
>
> Poetry at the Sweeney, Wednesday 10/14
> 7-9pm
> UCR Sweeney Art Gallery, 3800 Main St, Riverside
>    ~              ~            ~              ~
> Please join Poemeleon: A Journal of Poetry and The Inlandia  
> Institute for an evening of readings, book signings, and refreshments.
>
> In celebration of the launch of Poemeleon’s fourth year in  
> publication and the announcement of the inaugural Inlandia Literary  
> Laureate Award, Poemeleon & Inlandia have teamed up to bring you a  
> stellar lineup of authors. During the reading we will be going over  
> procedures for nominating your favorite author for Inlandia’s  
> Literary Laureate Award, the first of its kind in the Inland Empire,  
> which will, through its nominations process, recognize one  
> regionally-based author for their contribution to the region’s rich  
> and distinctive literary heritage.
>
> Poemeleon: A Journal of Poetry was founded by Cati Porter in  
> December 2005 and is published twice per year, April & October. Each  
> issue includes poems, interviews, book reviews, and essays, and is  
> devoted to a particular kind of poetry -- poems on place, ekphrastic  
> poems, poems in form, the prose poem, the persona poem, and humorous  
> poems, with an issue devoted to gender launching October 1st  
> followed in the spring by an issue devoted to collaborative works.  
> Poemeleon nominates for prize anthologies such as the Pushcart, Best  
> of the Web, Best of the Net, and Meridian’s Best New Poets  
> anthology, for which work has been selected, in addition to running  
> an annual reading series and an ongoing contest series on its  
> website titled The Mystery Box. To learn more about Poemeleon please  
> visit http://www.poemeleon.org.
>
> The Inlandia Institute is a literary center in partnership with  
> Heyday Books and its Affiliates that seeks to bring focus to the  
> richness of the literary enterprise that exists in the Inland  
> Empire. Inlandia’s mission is to recognize, support and expand  
> literary activity in all of its forms through community programs in  
> the Inland Empire, thereby deepening people’s awareness,  
> understanding, and appreciation of this unique, complex and  
> creatively vibrant region. With publishing partner Heyday Books,  
> Inlandia supports the publication of quality regional literary  
> projects under a special Inlandia imprint. Inlandia also operates a  
> program producing and supporting public literary programming  
> throughout the Inland Empire, conducts oral histories to preserve  
> the history and culture of the Inland Empire, holds writer’s  
> workshops for emerging authors, creates a love of literature in  
> children; and mentors young writers and cultural activists. To learn  
> more about Inlandia please visit http://www.inlandiainstitute.org.
>
>
> Authors to be present during this event:
>
> Poemeleon associate editor MAUREEN ALSOP, Ph.D., is the author of  
> two full collections of poetry, Apparition Wren (Main Street Rag)  
> and The Diction of Moths (Ghost Road Press, pending). She is also  
> the author of several chapbooks, most recently Luminal Equation in  
> the collection Narwhal (Cannibal Press), the dream and the dream you  
> spoke (Spire Press), 12 Greatest Hits (Pudding House) and  
> Nightingale Habit (Finishing Line Press). She is the winner of  
> Harpur Palate's Milton Kessler Memorial Prize for Poetry and The  
> Bitter Oleander’s Frances Locke Memorial Poetry Award. Her recent  
> poems have appeared or are forthcoming in various journals including  
> Blackbird, New Delta Review, Tampa Review, Typo, 42 Opus, Drunken  
> Boat, Copper Nickel, and Front Porch Journal.
>
> JO SCOTT-COE's work has appeared in many publications, most  
> recentlyHotel Amerika, turnrow, Green Mountains Review, River Teeth,  
> Memoir(and), Ruminate,and the anthology (Re)Interpretations: The  
> Shapes of Justice in Women's Experience(Cambridge Scholars Press).  
> Her interviews with essayist Richard Rodriguez and poet Donna  
> Hilbert have been featured inNarrativeandChiron Review,  
> respectively, and she received a Pushcart Special Mention in  
> nonfiction for 2009. In November 2009, Scott-Coe will present  
> research on gender and violence in education at the National Women's  
> Studies Association "Difficult Dialogues" conference in Atlanta.She  
> now works as a new assistant professor of English composition and  
> creative writing at Riverside Community College in Southern  
> California.
>
> CHING-IN CHEN is the author of The Heart's Traffic and a multi- 
> genre, border-crossing writer. The daughter of Chinese immigrants,  
> she is a Kundiman, Macondo and Lambda Fellow. A community organizer,  
> she has worked in the Asian American communities of San Francisco,  
> Oakland, and Boston. Her work has been recently published in  
> BorderSenses, Rio Grande Review, Chroma, Sous Rature, Cha, Verdad  
> and others.
>
> Poemeleon associate editor,JUDY KRONENFELD, Ph.D., is the author of  
> two books and two chapbooks of poetry, the most recent being Light  
> Lowering in Diminished Sevenths, winner of the 2007 Litchfield  
> Review Poetry Book Prize, which was published in Summer, 2008. Her  
> poems, as well as the occasional short story and personal essay have  
> appeared in numerous print and online journals. Recent and  
> forthcoming poem credits include Natural Bridge, The American Poetry  
> Journal, The Innisfree Poetry Journal, Calyx, The Hiram Poetry  
> Review, The Pedestal, The Cimarron Review, as well as a number of  
> anthologies, including Bear Flag Republic: Prose Poems and Poetics  
> from California, edited by Christopher Buckley and Gary Young  
> (Greenhouse Review Press/Alcatraz Editions, 2008) and Beyond  
> Forgetting: Poetry and Prose about Alzheimer’s Disease, edited by  
> Holly Hughes (forthcoming from Kent State University Press). She is  
> also the author of a critical study: KING LEAR and the Naked Truth  
> (Duke U.P., 1998). She is lecturer emeritus in the Department of  
> Creative Writing, at the University of California, Riverside.
>
> ROBERT KRUT is the author of The Spider Sermons (BlazeVox, 2009).  
> His work has appeared in Blackbird, Barrow Street, and The Mid- 
> American Review, among others. He teaches in the writing program at  
> the University of California, Santa Barbara.
>
> FRANCES RUHLEN MCCONNEL is the author The Direction of Longing  
> (Bellowing Ark Press), white birches, black water, (Bucket of Type  
> Printery) and ispresently putting together a collectiontentatively  
> called Rising is the Same as Falling while also working on a novel.  
> Recently four of her haiku were published in the 2009 Southern  
> California haiku anthology Shell Gathering. Along with Claremont  
> poet Lucia Galloway, who has a Mystery Box poem in the current issue  
> Poemeleon, she chairs the steering committee of the Claremont  
> Library Poetry series, sponsored by the Friends of the Claremont  
> Library on whose board she now serves. She has just begun leading a  
> writing group at the Pilgrim Place retirement community in Claremont.
>
> RUTH NOLAN is a poet/writer/editor based in Palm Desert, CA, where  
> she is Associate Professor of English at College of the Desert. Her  
> poetry has appeared in Pacific Review, Mosaic, Women’s Studies  
> Quarterly, San Diego Poetry Annual, Poemeleon, Phantom Seed, and  
> many other literary magazines and anthologies. She is editor of the  
> anthology No Place for a Puritan: the literature of California’s  
> deserts, forthcoming from Heyday Books in late 2009. She was the  
> recipient of a 2008-09 Joshua Tree National Park writer’s residency,  
> and has published two collections of poetry, Dry Waterfall (2008)  
> and Wild Wash Road (1996.)
>
> STEPHANY PRODROMIDES has poems in or forthcoming in Drunken Boat,  
> The Laurel Review, sou’wester, Red Rock Review, Barn Owl Review, New  
> CollAge and CRATE, and her chapbook manuscript Fishnet was a  
> finalist for the 2008 Center for Book Arts and DIAGRAM competitions.  
> Her book reviews have appeared in Poetry International. She designs  
> corporate training, and co-hosts The Third Area and the Redondo  
> Poets readings in Los Angeles.
>
> HILDA WEISS has been published recently in Salamander, Nerve Cowboy,  
> Ekphrasis and Pacific Coast Journal. Her work is forthcoming in the  
> Tar Wolf Review and Meridian Anthology of Contemporary Poetry. She  
> invites you to visit www.poetry.la, a website featuring videos from  
> Southern California open mic venues, which she recently co-founded.  
> Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, she is a fourth  
> generation Californian and lives and writes in Santa Monica.
>
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Robin Russin

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Department of Theatre
University of California, Riverside
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