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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Patrick Earl Ryan and Martin Pousson
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday\, November 13 at 7pm PST when Patrick Earl Ryan discusses his award-winning debut collection\, If We Were Electric\, with Martin Pousson on Zoom! \nIf you’re enjoying Green Apple’s virtual events\, consider making a donation here to help sustain our programming. \nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/88012383591 \n  \nPraise for If We Were Electric \nSelected by Roxane Gay for the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction\n“If We Were Electric\, the debut short story collection from New Orleans’s native Patrick Earl Ryan is\, indeed\, fiercely electric. These twelve startling fictions have been crafted by a writer with an assured and absolutely original voice and a remarkable understanding of how place is as much a compelling character in a good story as the people who populate it. There are stories here about unrequited love and youthful yearning\, the complexities of desire between men\, the beginnings and ends of relationships\, deaths both inevitable and untimely\, the bitter ache of loneliness\, the quiet horrors that unexpectedly befall us\, and the magic of the ordinary world. With this outstanding collection\, Patrick Ryan makes his mark on Southern literature and how.”—Roxane Gay \nAbout If We Were Electric \nIf We Were Electric‘s twelve stories celebrate New Orleans in all of its beautiful peculiarities: macabre and magical\, muddy and exquisite\, sensual and spiritual. The stunning debut collection finds its characters in moments of desire and despair\, often stuck on the verge of a great metamorphosis\, but burdened by some unreasonable love. These are stories about missed opportunities\, about people on the outside who don’t fit in\, about the consequences of not mustering enough courage to overcome the binds. \nIn “Feux Follet\,” an old man’s grief attracts supernatural lights in the dark Louisiana swamps. An exploding transformer’s raw\, unnerving energy in the title story matches the strange\, ferocious temper of an unlucky hustler. “Blackout” sets the profound numbness of a young man physically abused by his mentally unstable partner beside the meaningful beauty of an unexpected moment of joy with someone else. The teenage narrator in “Before Las Blancas” is so overwhelmed by his sexuality that he abandons everything and everyone he’s known to live in a happy illusion . . . in Mexico. And “Where It Takes Us” is a poignant\, understated snapshot of a gay man who accompanies his straight\, HIV-positive brother to the race track to bond again. \nAbout Patrick Earl Ryan \nPATRICK EARL RYAN was born and raised in New Orleans\, Louisiana. His work has appeared in the Ontario Review\, Pleiades\, Best New American Voices\, San Francisco Bay Guardian\, Men on Men: Best New Gay Fiction for the Millennium\, Cairn\, and the James White Review. Founder and editor in chief of Lodestar Quarterly\, Ryan has also taught martial arts philosophy and tai chi chuan for many years. He lives in San Francisco\, California.
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SUMMARY:KSW Presents "Cut to Bloom"
DESCRIPTION:This November\, KSW Presents “Cut to Bloom\,” a celebration of Arhm Choi Wild’s collection of poetry. Joined by Isabella “Isa” Borgeson and Hieu Minh Nguyen\, this event features three powerful poets reading works transforming the cut\, the chasm\, the hyphen—of identity\, of the body\, of queerness\, home and healing. \n  \nNO ONE WILL BE TURNED AWAY FOR LACK OF FUNDS. Email info@kearnystreet.org and we’ll take care of you. \n  \n\n\n\nFeatured Artists\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nArhm Choi Wild \n\n\n\n\nis a queer\, Korean-American poet who grew up in the slam community of Ann Arbor\, Michigan\, and went on to perform across the country\, including at Brave New Voices\, the New York City Poetry Festival\, and Asheville Wordfest. Their debut book of poems\, CUT TO BLOOM\, was the winner of the 2019 Write Bloody Book Contest. Arhm is a Kundiman fellow with an MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College\, and was a finalist for the Jake Adam York Prize in 2019. They have been anthologized in Daring to Repair by Wising Up Press and The Queer Movement Anthology of Literatures\, and their work appears in Barrow Street\, The Massachusetts Review\, Pleiades\, Split this Rock\, and other publications. They work as the Director of the Progressive Teaching Institute and as a Diversity Coordinator at a school in New York City. For more information\, visit arhmchoiwild.com. \nphoto by Sy Klipsch-Abudu \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nHieu Minh Nguyen \n\n\n\n\nis a queer Vietnamese American poet and performer. He is a Kundiman fellow\, the recipient of the 2017 NEA fellowship for poetry\, a 2018 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry fellowship\, the VERVE grant from Intermedia Arts\, the Minnesota Emerging Writers’ Grant from The Loft Literary Center\, and the University of Arizona Poetry Center’s Summer Residency. His work has appeared in PBS Newshour\, POETRY Magazine\, Gulf Coast\, BuzzFeed\, Poetry London\, Nashville Review\, Indiana Review\, and more. In 2014\, his debut collection of poetry\, This Way to the Sugar\, was a finalist for both the Lambda Book Award and Minnesota Book Award. His second collection\, Not Here\, was published in April 2018 by Coffee House Press. He received his MFA from Warren Wilson College and is currently a Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nIsabella “Isa” Borgeson \n\n\n\n\nis a queer\, mixed race\, white and Filipina poet\, community organizer\, and teaching artist from Oakland. Isa was named a “Best New Poet” of 2018. She has received fellowships from Voices of Our Nation Art Foundation (2015\, 2017)\, the Poetry Incubator through Crescendo Literary (2016)\, and AIR Serenbe as their 2019 Spoken Word Artist with a commitment to Community and Collaboration (SWACC!) Fellow. Most recently\, she was named a 2020 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow. Isa is a co-founder of The Root Slam – a free poetry venue in Oakland dedicated to promoting the artistic growth of the Bay Area poetry community. She currently organizes with the #StopSanQuentinOutbreak coalition around COVID-19 rapid response work to decarcerate all prisons. Isa’s commitment toward teaching poetry as a tool for resistance keeps her grounded in her communities from Oakland to Tanauan. \nphoto by Andrea Gutiérrez \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT CUT TO BLOOM \nWhat does it take to unlearn the survival instinct of trauma? What does it take to choose our tools instead of wearing down the ones we’ve been handed? In Cut to Bloom\, Arhm Choi Wild attempts to forge answers to these questions by navigating the hyphen\, sometimes chasm\, between the Asian and American identity\, between queerness and the politics of belonging\, between survival and the possibility of choice. \nWhile talking back to the colonialism of strict poetic form\, this book attempts to disrupt clear definitions and redefine the American identity as one that is constructed more by questions than answers. This book celebrates the self-made\, rogue bouquet\, the taking of what you were given and transforming it into something you could make a gift of\, and examines what needs to be pruned in order to arrive at this transformation.
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