Kearny Street Workshop's bi-monthly reading series celebrates new poetry releases by Michelle Peñaloza and Đỗ Nguyên Mai.

On Friday, November 22nd, KSW Presents “A History of Our Naming” featuring poets Michelle Peñaloza, author of Former Possessions of the Spanish Empire, and Đỗ Nguyên Mai, author of Battlefield Blooming. This reading is a celebration of their new collections of poetry. Their poems ask us to look at—and not away—from the histories, hauntings, and presences of colonialism, conquest, and imperialism. These poets find power in the work of gathering fragments and fractures, and in what emerges from this naming for their families, for their communities, and for themselves.

The title of this event is inspired by a line from Michelle Peñaloza’s titular poem “Former Possessions of the Spanish Empire."

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The Asian American Studies Program and the English Department present a conversation and reading with poet Michelle Peñaloza. The event is free and open to the public.

The proud daughter of Filipino immigrants, Michelle Peñaloza was born in the suburbs of Detroit, MI and raised in Nashville, TN.

She is the author of Former Possessions of the Spanish Empire, winner of the 2018 Hillary Gravendyk National Poetry Prize. She is also the author of two chapbooks, landscape/heartbreak, and Last Night I Dreamt of Volcanoes.

2:30: Conversation, discussion, and Q&A
4:00: Reading

Four of the most exciting emerging literary voices in this nation converge in Madison for one night only while on their respective first book tours. From the west coast, poets Michelle Peñaloza and Bill Carty; and from Iowa City, essayist Andre Perry and fiction writer Rachel Yoder. Artist Chele Isaac and ALL are hosting us at Maiahaus, a beautiful church turned artist studio by the Capitol. This will be our last event for the fall season! This is a free reading, but all are encouraged to purchase tickets for our raffle, featuring signed books, mix CDs, and other priceless literary ephemera ($3/ticket). Bring your own drinks and snacks, and come early to grab a seat by the giant beehive!

w/ Bill Carty

We are thrilled to welcome amazing poets Bill Carty, Michelle Peñaloza, and Tommye Blount to Pages to read from their latest books of poetry, "Huge Cloudy", "Former Possessions of the Spanish Empire" and "What Are We Not For." This will make for an incredible evening of poetry that you won't want to miss!

This event is free and open to the public. Bill, Michelle and Tommye's books will be for sale before and after the event.

w/ Bill Carty as part of the ongoing Poetry at Literati series. A book signing will follow. The event is free and open to the public. 

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w/ Joy Grace Chen, Keith Leonard, and Bill Carty

Join us for an afternoon of poetry in Columbus as local poets Joy Grace Chen & Keith Leonard join Bill Carty & Michelle Peñaloza as they celebrate their recent debut poetry collections, HUGE CLOUDY and FORMER POSSESSIONS OF THE SPANISH EMPIRE.

w/ Bill Carty and Patrick Culliton

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Third Space Action Lab (1464 E 105TH st)
doors open: 7.
show begins: 7:30.

ur emcee: Andrew Wehmann / the readers: Michelle Peñaloza & Nikki Zielinski & Bill Carty & Mila Jaroniec / FREE!

Please join us as we welcome Michelle Peñaloza to the Wellspring Literary Series to read her award-winning poems. CMU Honors student Jordan Gakle will also read, and music will be provided by CMU alumnus Joe Hertler of Joe Hertler and the Rainbow Seekers. As always, complimentary dinner will be provided by Max & Emily's Eatery.

Thanks to the Russ Herron Poetry Found of the Mt. Pleasant Area Community Foundation, this great evening of poetry, art, song, and food is FREE and open to the public and will be followed by a book signing. These evenings are often standing-room-only--so come early to snag a good seat!

Ambitious and emotionally complex, Michelle Peñaloza's debut poetry collection, Former Possessions of the Spanish Empire, explores grief and violence, the intersections of race, gender, and sexuality, and the complications of desire. Former Possessions of the Spanish Empire won the 2018 Hillary Gravendyk National Prize. Aimee Nezhukumatathil, author of Oceanic, calls Peñaloza's book "remarkable" and says "Of this I am certain: I'll be celebrating this poet for many years to come."

Former Possessions of the Spanish Empire is a work simultaneously culturally specific and universal, with a scope ambitious and emotionally complex, it explores questions of grief and violence, and negotiates loss across landscapes and spans of time. It engages with the intersections of race, gender, and sexuality and the complications of desire. (Inlandia Institute)

Poetry. African & African American Studies. "Racial identity and family musings lead Gadson down a circular path in her profoundly candid and revealing debut collection...By reusing and transforming phrases, Gadson reveals how beliefs themselves can morph, externalizing a very interior process...Gadson's insistent echoing of herself (or herself) illuminates a poignant crux of the collection: despite the passage of time and the depth of inquiry, some questions and hard realities invariably persist." Publishers Weekly"

LibroMobile Presents: Former Possessions of the Spanish Empire by Michelle Peñaloza

Michelle Peñaloza is the author of Former Possessions of the Spanish Empire, which won the 2018 Hillary Grravendyk National Poetry Prize and will be published in August 2019 by Inlandia Books. She also wrote two chapbooks, landscape/heartbreak (Two Sylvias, 2015), and Last Night I Dreamt of Volcanoes (Organic Weapon Arts, 2015). Her poems can be found in Prairie Schooner, Pleiades, Third Coast, The Normal School and elsewhere. A Kundiman fellow and a graduate of the University of Oregon MFA program, Michelle is the winner of the 2019 Scotti Merrill Emerging Writer Award for Poetry from The Key West Literary Seminar. Michelle lives in rural Northern Califronia.

About Former Possessions of the Spanish Empire, Barbara Jane Reyes, author of Poeta en San Francisco and Invocation to Daughters, writes: "This is an emotionally complex work, in which grief, and immigrant, diasporic confusion and rage are handled with so much wisdom. I love this book."

FREE EVENT
This event is supported in part by Poets & Writers.

LibroMobile is a literary project & bookstore established in Santa Ana, California-off 4th & Spurgeon, in the back alley!

Join us for a reading with Michelle Peñaloza for her debut poetry collection, Former Possessions of the Spanish Empire, which won the 2019 Hillary Gravendyk National Prize through Inlandia Books!

Muriel Leung, MT Vallarta and Annette Wong will also be reading their poems in celebration!

About Former Possessions of the Spanish Empire, Barbara Jane Reyes, author of Poeta en San Francisco and Invocation to Daughters, writes: "This is an emotionally complex work, in which grief, and immigrant, diasporic confusion and rage are handled with so much wisdom. I love this book."

Aimee Nezhukumatathil, author of Oceanic, calls Peñaloza's book "ambitious" and "remarkable" and says "Of this I am certain: I’ll be celebrating this poet for many years to come."

Garrett Hongo, author of Coral Road, praises the book and writes: "As an heraldic preface to her wondrous new volume, Michelle Peñaloza asks of her poetry a profound question—How do children born of empire // once removed // possess the history // of their naming? ...The book is a colorful and complex mosaic of re-possession, a repairing of an uprooted history, and Penaloza’s own passionate monody of praise for all that was lost."

Join us in welcoming Michelle Penaloza for a reading and signing of here new collection, Former Possessions of the Spanish Empire, the winner of the 2018 Hillary Gravendyk National Prize!

Ambitious and emotionally complex, Michelle Peñaloza's debut poetry collection, Former Possessions of the Spanish Empire, explores grief and violence, the intersections of race, gender, and sexuality, and the complications of desire. Aimee Nezhukumatathil, author of Oceanic, calls Peñaloza's book "remarkable" and says "Of this I am certain: I'll be celebrating this poet for many years to come."

Please RSVP for this event. Books will be available to purchase in store and online at cellardoorbookstore.com

A celebration of the winners of the Hillary Gravendyk Poetry Prize. Four poets discuss their books of poetry and join in conversation about the poetry process.

Elizabeth Cantwell is a high school teacher and poet living in Claremont, California, with her husband, two sons, and small dog. She is the author of two books of poetry, Nights I Let The Tiger Get You (Black Lawrence Press) and All The Emergency-Type Structures (Inlandia Institute), which was a finalist for the 2018 National Poetry Series and won the 2018 Regional Hillary Gravendyk Prize. If you need her, you can find her watching horror movies, listening to Fiona Apple, or reading incessantly about climate change.

Kenji C. Liu is author of Monsters I Have Been (Alice James Books, 2019) and Map of an Onion, national winner of the 2015 Hillary Gravendyk Poetry Prize (Inlandia Insti-tute). His poetry has appeared in American Poetry Review, Poetry Northwest, Gulf Coast, Apogee, and elsewhere, including two chapbooks and several anthologies. An alumnus of Kundiman, VONA/Voices, the Djerassi Resident Artist Program, and the Community of Writers, he lives in occupied Tongva land.

Rachelle Cruz is from Hayward, California. She is the author of God's Will for Mon-sters (Inlandia, 2017) and Experiencing Comics: An Introduction to Reading, Discuss-ing and Creating Comics, among other books. She hosts The Blood-Jet Writing Hour, a writing podcast with Muriel Leung. She is a Lecturer in the Creative Writing Depart-ment at the University of California, Riverside. An Emerging Voices Fellow, a Kundiman Fellow and a VONA writer, Rachelle lives and writes in Southern California.

The proud daughter of Filipino immigrants, Michelle Peñaloza is author of Former Possessions of the Spanish Empire, winner of the 2018 Hillary Gravendyk National Poetry Prize. She is also the author of two chapbooks, landscape/heartbreak (Two Sylvias, 2015), and Last Night I Dreamt of Volcanoes (Organic Weapon Arts, 2015).

This event is free and open to the public. Special thanks to our sponsor, UCR Center for Ideas and Society.

Join the Portland-based celebration(s!!) for the launch of Michelle Peñaloza's FORMER POSSESSIONS OF THE SPANISH EMPIRE! Join us on September 18th for an evening with All Star Pinxy writers, Christopher Rose, Armin Tolentino, Janice Sapigao, Jake Vermaas along with Michelle, to celebrate #formerpossessions and the GRAND OPENING CELEBRATION of Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon - APANO's De-Canon Library + Chapel at Milepost 5.

Portland- and Northern California- based poets will join forces to combine readings and karaoke into an extravaganza of entertainment and literary import. All are welcome and the event is free of charge. But! You do need to register! Here's the link: https://secure.everyaction.com/iAW_UP2kVkC8DY1-mXKitw2

Join Whitenoise Project and Caldera for a special event at Literary Arts!

The night will feature readings and book signings from alumni of Caldera’s Youth Program and Artists in Residence (AiR) Program, including authors Michelle Peñaloza, Leland Cheuk, and Farooq Ahmed, all of whom have just-published or soon-to-be published books that were completed at Caldera. Special guest Jolly Wrapper will open the evening.

Join Pinay Powerhouse Poets, Barbara Jane Reyes, Janice Sapigao, Aimee Suzara and Michelle Peñaloza as they come together to celebrate #allpinayeverything and the release of Peñaloza's FORMER POSSESSIONS OF THE SPANISH EMPIRE at Arkipelago Books, a cornerstone to the Filipino businesses, advocate organizations, art spaces and families in SOMA PILIPINAS, San Francisco's newest Historical District.

Barbara Jane Reyes is an adjunct professor in Philippine Studies at University of San Francisco, the author of Invocation to Daughters (City Lights Publishers, 2017), and four previous collections of poetry, including Poeta en San Francisco (Tinfish Press, 2005) and Diwata (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2010). Letters to a Young Brown Girl is forthcoming from BOA Editions, Ltd., in 2020. She lives in Oakland, CA. http://www.barbarajanereyes.com/

Janice Lobo Sapigao is a daughter of Filipina/o immigrants. She was named one of the San Francisco Bay Area’s 2017 Women to Watch by KQED Arts. She is the author of two books of poetry: Like a Solid to a Shadow (Timeless, Infinite Light, 2017) and microchips for millions (Philippine American Writers and Artists, Inc., 2016) and three other chapbooks. She is a VONA/Voices and Kundiman Fellow, and the Associate Editor of TAYO Literary Magazine. She co-founded Sunday Jump open mic in L.A. She earned her M.F.A. in Writing from CalArts, and she has a B.A. in Ethnic Studies with Honors from UC San Diego.

Aimee Suzara is a Filipino-American poet, playwright, and performer whose mission is to create poetic and theatrical work about race, gender, and the body to provoke dialogue and social change. Suzara has graced stages nationally, from Florida to Washington with her dynamic spoken word. Her debut poetry book, SOUVENIR (WordTech Editions 2014), a Willa Award Finalist, was lauded as “a powerful meditation on history and the legacies of race, family and identity” (David Mura), and her poems appear in numerous collections, including Phat’itude and Kartika Review. Her performance work has been supported by YBCAway Award, National Endowment for the Arts; selected for the One Minute Play Festival, APAture, and the Utah Arts Festival; and staged at the Berkeley Repertory Theater, CounterPULSE, and others. Luis J Rodriguez has said, “Aimee Suzara is a deep chronicler of our hopes, dreams, pains, and future. We need these poems more than ever.” http://www.aimeesuzara.net

Michelle Peñaloza is author of Former Possessions of the Spanish Empire, which won the 2018 Hillary Gravendyk National Poetry Prize (Inlandia Books, 2019). She is also the author of two chapbooks, landscape/heartbreak (Two Sylvias, 2015), and Last Night I Dreamt of Volcanoes (Organic Weapon Arts, 2015). Her work can be found in places like Prairie Schooner, upstreet, Pleiades, The Normal School and Third Coast. She is the recipient of fellowships from the University of Oregon, Kundiman and Hugo House as well as the 2019 Scotti Merrill Emerging Writer Award for Poetry from The Key West Literary Seminar. Michelle has also received scholarships from Lemon Tree House, Caldera, Vermont Studio Center, VONA/Voices, and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, among others. The proud daughter of Filipino immigrants, Michelle was born in the suburbs of Detroit, MI and raised in Nashville, TN. She now lives, farms, and writes in rural Northern California.

Free event, wheelchair accessible.

Michelle Peñaloza will be reading her debut collection: Former Possessions of the Spanish Empire joined by poets Cristiana Baik, Dan Lau, and Truong Tran. Former Possessions of the Spanish Empire, won the 2018 Hillary Gravendyk National Prize through Inlandia Books.

“Michelle Peñaloza’s first collection of poems, Former Possessions of the Spanish Empire, is filled with so much care and kapwa, a deep understanding of shared humanity, between generations of Filipina women and girls -- the granddaughter plucking her lola’s gray hairs, witnessing the aging, failing body with so much warmth and compassion, the daughter who knows her mother’s voice so well, that she inhabits it. Peñaloza’s poems are grounded in details, textures, and aromas, rose petals, coffee, garlic, smoothed rosary beads, old prayer books, the tangle of mangrove roots. This is an emotionally complex work, in which grief, and immigrant, diasporic confusion and rage are handled with so much wisdom. I love this book.” —Barbara Jane Reyes, Author of Poeta en San Francisco and Invocation to Daughters

Join the Seattle-based celebration(s!!!) for the launch of Michelle Peñaloza's FORMER POSSESSIONS OF THE SPANISH EMPIRE! The third of three readings, join us on August 12th for an evening in Capitol Hill with All Star Pinxy writers, Robert Francis Flor, Emily P. Lawsin, and Corina Zappia at Elliott Bay Book Company. These events are co-sponsored by Pinoy Brown Box and Pinoy Words Expressed Kultura Arts to celebrate Pinxy writers in Seattle alongside Peñaloza’s collection. All events are free of charge.

Come celebrate the release of my debut full-length the collection, Former Possessions of the Spanish Empire, as several of Seattle poets join forces to combine readings and karaoke into an extravaganza of entertainment and literary import! Doors open at 6:30pm, and readings/performances will begin promptly at 7:00pm! The event will feature the literary (& musical) stylings of Anastacia Renee, Troy Osaki, Quenton Baker, Jane Wong and other special guests! This event is made possible through the community spirit and generosity of Pinoy Brown Box, Kultura Arts, Filipino American National Historical Society (FANHS), and Open Books: A Poem Emporium. ♥ ♥ ♥ I've missed you Seattle!

In conjunction with her solo exhibition After Preparing the Altar, the Ghosts Feast Feverishly, Jane Wong has selected two of her favorite poets to read their works in engagement with and in response to her exhibition. This reading will be interspersed with the poets’ reflections on the exhibition and the ideas that fuel their practices. To be followed by a Q&A session.

ABOUT THE PRESENTERS
Jane Wong is a poet, essayist, and professor who grew up in a Chinese American take-out restaurant. Her poems can be found in Best American Poetry 2015, American Poetry Review, and jubilat, among others. A Kundiman fellow, she is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from the U.S. Fulbright Program, the Fine Arts Work Center, Hedgebrook, 4Culture, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and The Mineral School. The author of Overpour (Action Books, 2016), Jane is an assistant professor at Western Washington University. Invested in public scholarship, her project on the poetics of haunting in Asian American poetry has appeared as a TEDx talk and a multimedia website.
Jane Wong received the 2017 James W. Ray Distinguished Artist Award, which is funded by the Raynier Institute & Foundation through the Frye Art Museum | Artist Trust Consortium. The award supports and advances the creative work of outstanding artists living and working in Washington State and culminates in a presentation at the Frye Art Museum.

Diana Khoi Nguyen is a poet and multimedia artist whose debut collection, Ghost Of (Omnidawn, 2018), was selected by Terrance Hayes for the Omnidawn Open Contest. In addition to winning the 92Y "Discovery" / Boston Review Poetry Contest and 2019 Kate Tufts Discovery Award, she was also a finalist for the National Book Award, L.A. Times Book Prize, and Colorado Book Award. A Kundiman fellow, she is currently a writer-in-residence at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, and teaches in the Randolph College MFA program and Lighthouse Writers Workshop.

Michelle Peñaloza is the author of Former Possessions of the Spanish Empire (Inlandia Books), winner of the 2018 Hillary Gravendyk National Poetry Prize. She is also the author of two chapbooks, landscape/heartbreak (Two Sylvias, 2015), and Last Night I Dreamt of Volcanoes (Organic Weapon Arts, 2015). Her poems can be found in Prairie Schooner, Pleiades, Third Coast, New England Review, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of fellowships and awards from the Kundiman, 4Culture, Artist Trust, Jack Straw, and the Richard Hugo House, as well as scholarships from VONA/Voices, Vermont Studio Center, and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, among others. A Kundiman fellow, Michelle won the 2019 Scotti Merrill Emerging Writer Award for Poetry from The Key West Literary Seminar. Michelle lives in rural Northern California.
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REGISTRATION
Tickets to this program are free of charge, and our seating capacity is limited. Free tickets, limit 2 per person, may be reserved in advance, up to two days before the program. The reserved tickets may be picked up on the day of the program at the desk in the foyer outside the auditorium. There is no late seating, so please arrive at least 15 minutes early. All unclaimed tickets (regardless of reservations) will be released to standby 10 minutes before the program!
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TICKETING
On the day of the program, pre-registered and standby tickets will be available at the desk in the foyer outside the auditorium.
Tickets for Members may be picked up beginning one hour before the program.
Pre-registered tickets for nonmembers may be picked up beginning 30 minutes before the program.
All unclaimed tickets (regardless of reservations) will be released to standby 10 minutes before the program.
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Somatic Poetry with March AiR Michelle Peñaloza.

Sunday, March 19, 1 p.m.–4 p.m.

Downtown Bend Library, 601 NW Wall St.

Taking a cue from CA Conrad’s (Soma)tic Poetry Rituals (find them at here), participants will engage in somatic poetry “rituals” to be mindful of the present moment and “reveal the creative viability of everything” around them. It’s spring! We’ll traipse together, using the city as our inspiration, to explore our outer and inner landscapes. This class is for folks who want to shake up their practice, write new work, and have fun!

This workshop is free and open to the public. Register via www.deschuteslibrary.org/calendar. 
Presented in partnership with Deschutes Public Library.

Pinoy Words Expressed Kultura Arts (PWEKA), a local Filipino American arts organization, will co-sponsor with Elliott Bay Bookstore the book launch of Robert Francis Flor's poetry chapbook "Alaskero Memories" on Saturday, February 4, 2017 at Elliott Bay Book Company, 1521 10th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122 at 7 p.m. Flor's chapbook recounts his coming of age during the four summers he worked in the salmon canneries in King Cove, Alaska in the early 1960s. Seattle poets Michelle Penaloza, Victor Pineda and Emily Lawsin will join Flor and present their poems recounting the courageous and heartbreaking stories of Filipino workers in the 1920's and '30s who performed backbreaking seasonal work at the farm fields of California and at the fish canneries in Alaska. A funding grant from Artist Trust allowed Flor to complete his chapbook which was published by Carayan Press in San Francisco.