Underland Gallery Reading Series: Spring 2024 #1
New York Writers Workshop @ Underland Gallery Reading Series
Spring 2024 #1 -- Saturday, Feb 24, 2024 / 6:00 PM
Pichchenda Bao is a Cambodian American poet and writer. Her work has been featured in numerous publications, exhibitions, and events. She is co-editor of the forthcoming anthology, Braving the Body (Terrapin Books). She has received fellowships and support from Aspen Words, Kundiman, Bethany Arts Community, and Queens Council on the Arts. She lives, writes and raises her three children in New York City. More at www.pichchendabao.com.
Twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Miho Kinnas is a translator, writer, and poet. She is the author of three poetry collections Today, Fish Only and Move Over, Bird, both by Math Paper Press and Waiting for Sunset to Bury Red Camellias by Free Verse Press. The poem, Three Shrimp Boats on The Horizon, was selected for Best American Poetry 2023. Also in 2023, a book of poetry collaborated with E. Ethelbert Miller, We Eclipse into the Other Side, was published by Pinyon Publishing. In addition, a rengay written with Lenard D. Moore appears in Tandem, Vol 2, No 2 and her translation in Tokyo Poetry Journal Vol 12. She writes literary essays and book reviews for journals including E-Markings, American Book Review and Literary Shanghai Alluvium. Her interview and reading recorded on Grace Cavalieri’s radio/podcast show The Poem and the Poet will have been installed at a permanent location on the moon as a part of Lunar Codex program. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the City University of Hong Kong. She is also an instructor at Writers.com, Camp Conroy, and Life-Long Learning of Hilton Head.
Vina Orden is a freelance writer and editor as well as a human rights activist based in Lenapehoking/New York City. Her writing about Filipinx culture and community has appeared in Asian Journal, The FilAm, hella pinay, Hyperallergic, The Halo-Halo Review, and The Margins. As a poetry and creative nonfiction editor at Slant'd magazine, Vina supports and amplifies the voices of emerging Asian American writers. She is working on her first novel dedicated to young Filipinxs who don’t see themselves in books and is a 2024 Roots. Wounds. Words. YA Fiction Fellow. In 2022, she participated in Tin House’s YA Workshop and was a Kweli Sing the Truth! Mentee. She was a 2022 Open City Fellow in community journalism at the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, where she curated the event, "Martial Law @ 50: To Remember Is to Resist," featuring intergenerational writers, artists, and activists from the Philippines and the diaspora countering the historical erasure and revisionism of Ferdinand E. Marcos, Sr.’s fourteen-year, military-backed dictatorship in the Philippines. Social media handles and websites: @hyffeinated (on Instagram), vinaorden.com
Hosted by:
Tim Tomlinson, co-founder and director of New York Writers Workshop. Tims books are Yolanda: An Oral History in Verse (chapbook), Requiem for the Tree Fort I Set on Fire, the story collection This Is Not Happening to You, and, early in 2024, Listening to Fish: meditations from the wet world.
DATE: Saturday, Feb 24, 2024
TIME: Doors 6:00 PM, Reading 6:30 PM, followed by Q&A and reception until 8:00 (refreshments provided)
PLACE: Underland Gallery, 457 77th Street, Unit #1, Brooklyn, NY 11209 (sidewalk level, no stairs)
Directions
Underland Gallery, 457 77th Street, Unit #1, Brooklyn, NY 11209, btw 4th Ave and 5th Ave (ground level). Take the R Train to 77th St. & 4th Ave. Brooklyn, head east ⅔ of a block from station.