Monday, April 09, 2007
sunday, april 22nd, reading
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Sunday, April 22nd, 7pm
Stain Bar
766 Grand St.
Brooklyn, NY
(take "L" to Grand, walk one block west) in Williamsburg.
www.sundaysalon.com
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Terese Svoboda has published nine books of prose and poetry, most recently Tin God (U. of Nebraska Press, 2006). Critic Geoffrey O’Brien named her first novel, Cannibal, one of the best books in print. Her honors include an O’Henry Prize for the short story, a nonfiction Pushcart Prize, a translation NEH grant, three New York Foundation for the Arts grants in poetry and fiction, a New York State Council for the Arts and a Jerome Foundation grant in video, the John Golden Award in playwriting, the Bobst Prize in fiction and the Iowa Prize in poetry. Her tenth book, Black Glasses Like Clark Kent, won the 2007 Graywolf Nonfiction Prize and will be published next year.
Binyavanga Wainaina is a Kenyan writer. In 2002 he won the Caine Prize for African Writing. He is the Founding Editor of Kwani? - a leading Kenyan magazine (www.kwani.org). In 2007, he won the Virginia Quarterly's Emily Clark Balch prize for fiction. He was written for Tin House, Chimurenga, National Geographic and the New York Times. He is the Visiting Writer at Union College, in upstate New York. His travel/memoir book Discovering Home will be published by Graywolf Press in 2008.
Bino A. Realuyo is the author of The Gods We Worship Live Next Door, selected for 2005 Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry. His poems have appeared in The Kenyon Review, Manoa, The Literary Review, New Letters and The Nation. He was a recipient of the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from Poetry Society of America. The son of a survivor of the Bataan Death March and a World War II Japanese concentration camp in the Philippines, Bino A. Realuyo was born in Manila and raised there and in New York City. He is the author of the acclaimed novel, The Umbrella Country. He lives in Manhattan.
Cheryl Burke is an award-winning poet and writer. Her work appears in dozens of print and online publications including; The Guardian, Small Spiral Notebook, BLOOM, Reactions 5, Pills, Thrills, Chills and Heartache, The Milk of Almonds and Poetry Nation. Her awards include fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. As a performer, Cheryl has appeared throughout the U.S., Canada, the U.K. and in Australia. She is also the creator and producer of PVC: The Poetry vs. Comedy Variety Show at the Bowery Poetry Club. Cheryl lives in Brooklyn, NY and online at www.cherylb.com.
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Sunday, April 22nd, 7pm
Stain Bar
766 Grand St.
Brooklyn, NY
(take "L" to Grand, walk one block west) in Williamsburg.
www.sundaysalon.com
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Terese Svoboda has published nine books of prose and poetry, most recently Tin God (U. of Nebraska Press, 2006). Critic Geoffrey O’Brien named her first novel, Cannibal, one of the best books in print. Her honors include an O’Henry Prize for the short story, a nonfiction Pushcart Prize, a translation NEH grant, three New York Foundation for the Arts grants in poetry and fiction, a New York State Council for the Arts and a Jerome Foundation grant in video, the John Golden Award in playwriting, the Bobst Prize in fiction and the Iowa Prize in poetry. Her tenth book, Black Glasses Like Clark Kent, won the 2007 Graywolf Nonfiction Prize and will be published next year.
Binyavanga Wainaina is a Kenyan writer. In 2002 he won the Caine Prize for African Writing. He is the Founding Editor of Kwani? - a leading Kenyan magazine (www.kwani.org). In 2007, he won the Virginia Quarterly's Emily Clark Balch prize for fiction. He was written for Tin House, Chimurenga, National Geographic and the New York Times. He is the Visiting Writer at Union College, in upstate New York. His travel/memoir book Discovering Home will be published by Graywolf Press in 2008.
Bino A. Realuyo is the author of The Gods We Worship Live Next Door, selected for 2005 Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry. His poems have appeared in The Kenyon Review, Manoa, The Literary Review, New Letters and The Nation. He was a recipient of the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from Poetry Society of America. The son of a survivor of the Bataan Death March and a World War II Japanese concentration camp in the Philippines, Bino A. Realuyo was born in Manila and raised there and in New York City. He is the author of the acclaimed novel, The Umbrella Country. He lives in Manhattan.
Cheryl Burke is an award-winning poet and writer. Her work appears in dozens of print and online publications including; The Guardian, Small Spiral Notebook, BLOOM, Reactions 5, Pills, Thrills, Chills and Heartache, The Milk of Almonds and Poetry Nation. Her awards include fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. As a performer, Cheryl has appeared throughout the U.S., Canada, the U.K. and in Australia. She is also the creator and producer of PVC: The Poetry vs. Comedy Variety Show at the Bowery Poetry Club. Cheryl lives in Brooklyn, NY and online at www.cherylb.com.
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