Take A Stand: Art Against Hate
Online Event #7
Presented by
The Seattle Public Library
in partnership with
Raven Chronicles Press
& Third Place Books
January 21, 2021
7:00-8:30 pm (PST)
Register at
https://www.spl.org/event-calendar?trumbaEmbed=date%3D20210121
Moderator: Anna Bálint
Readers:
Tess Gallagher
Lawrence Matsuda
Tiffany Midge
Shankar Narayan
henry 7 reneau, jr.
Penina Ava Taesali
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https://www.spl.org/event-calendar?trumbaEmbed=date%3D20210121
Anna Bálint (moderator) is a Seattle-based poet, writer, editor, and longtime teacher of creative writing. Her editorial work for Raven Chronicles Press includes the anthologies Take a Stand, Art Against Hate, and Words From the Café, an anthology of writing by people in recovery.
Tess Gallagher’s eleventh volume of poetry, Is, Is Not, was published May 2019 by Graywolf Press. Midnight Lantern: New and Selected Poems, also from Graywolf, is the most comprehensive offering of her poems to date. She spends time in a cottage on Lough Arrow in Co. Sligo in the West of Ireland, and also lives and writes in her hometown of Port Angeles, Washington.
Lawrence Matsuda was born in the Minidoka, Idaho Concentration Camp during World War II. He and his family were among the approximately 120,000 Japanese incarcerated. In 2010, his book of poetry entitled, A Cold Wind from Idaho about the WWII forced incarceration of Japanese Americans was published by Black Lawrence Press. In 2014 his book of poetry, Glimpses of a Forever Foreigner, was released. In 2019 he completed a novel based on his mother’s experience entitled, My Name Is Not Viola (Endicott and Hugh publisher).
Tiffany Midge is a member of the Standing Rock Sioux Nation and was raised by wolves in the Pacific Northwest. Her book Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese’s was a finalist for a Washington State Book Award, and selected for Spokane Is Reading.
Shankar Narayan is a 4Culture grant recipient for “Claiming Space,” a project to lift the voices of writers of color, and his chapbook, Postcards From the New World, won the Paper Nautilus Debut Series Chapbook Prize. In Seattle, he awakens to the wonders of Cascadia every day, but his heart yearns east to his other hometown, Delhi, India.
henry 7 reneau, jr. is a Lindsay, California-based poet, book reviewer, short story writer, and essayist. He is the author of the poetry collection, freedomland blues (Transcendent Zero Press), and the e-chapbook, physiography of the fittest (Kind of a Hurricane Press).
Penina Ava Taesali is a Samoan poet, educator, and cultural arts activist. For nine years, Ms. Taesali worked as artistic director for the Oakland Asian Cultural Center (OACC) in Oakland, California, where she founded the Asian Pacific Islander Youth Promoting Advocacy and Leadership, Talking Roots Art Collective.