Eastridge Open Mic

Eastridge Open Mic
with host Lorenz Dumuk
Tuesday, April 18, 2017, 6:00pm
Feature: Michelle Lin
open mic follows

Barnes & Noble at Eastridge Mall
2200 Eastridge Loop, Suite #1420, San José
Nearest cross streets are Tully and E. Capitol Expressway
Free and open to the public

Michelle Lin is a poet, activist, and author of A House Made of Water (Sibling Rivalry Press), a lyrical examination of Asian American identity, gender and daughterhood, the inheritance of stories, and survival from trauma. Her poems can be found in HEArt, Apogee, Powder Keg Magazine, Dusie, Asian American Literary Review, North American Review, ZYZZYVA, Adrienne, Quaint Magazine, Aster(ix), and more. Her work was showcased in Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera’s “Lo Writer of the Week” and the Pennsylvania Center for the Book’s Public Poetry Project. She has performed for Kearny Street Workshop’s APAture, grlhood, Litquake, and more. A former poetry teacher and editor, she lives and works in the Bay Area for API Legal Outreach, a social justice non-profit serving marginalized communities, volunteers for Kearny Street Workshop, the oldest multidisciplinary Asian Pacific American arts organization in the country, and reads for Twelfth House Journal. She is a poetry fellow of Kundiman, an organization dedicated to the creation and cultivation of Asian American literature. Learn more at michellelinpoet.wordpress.com.