Monthly:

Poetry Readings at:
Willow Glen Library

Third Thursday of Every Month
7:00 pm
1157 Minnesota Avenue
San José, CA 95125

FREE and open to the public

Poets @ Play

Second Sunday of Most Months
1:00 to 4:00 pm
Edwin Markham House in
History Park
1650 Senter Road,
San José, CA 95112

FREE and open to the public

PCSJ Events:

Well-RED
Reading Series
Wednesday, May 15, 2013, 7:00pm
Featured poet: Henry Leung
reading from his new book of poems, Paradise Hunger
open reading to follow

at Works/San José
365 South Market Street
in downtown San José
doors open 6:30pm
$2 suggested donation, no one turned away
Works is on the Market Street edge of the San Jose Convention Center, just to the right of the parking garage entrance.

Henry W. Leung was born in a village in China’s Pearl River Delta. He grew up in Honolulu, then the San Francisco Bay Area. He earned his BA from Stanford while studying abroad at Peking, Cambridge, and Oxford Universities. He was the first President of Oceanic Tongues, Stanford’s Asian American Writers’ Workshop. Now, a Kundiman Fellow and a columnist for the Lantern Review, he is working toward his MFA in Fiction at the University of Michigan. He was recently awarded the Soros Fellowship, for which he received mention in The New York Times. His work has appeared in such journals as Boxcar, Cerise Press, Memoir Journal, and ZYZZYVA. He has served as a teaching assistant at the Prague Summer Program, as assistant managing editor for the Best American Nonrequired Reading, and as a reader for NPR’s Three Minute Fiction Contest.

Acclaim for Paradise Hunger:
“Exquisitely structured in elegiac lyric tapestries, Paradise Hunger ferries us into a luminous underworld filled with messages of grief and the promise of renewal. From Hawai’i to Guangdong, Castro Valley to the Gobi Desert, Paradise Hunger maps the intricate geography of mourning, dazzling in its juxtaposition of sorrow and resilience. " -Stephen Hong Sohn.

POETS @ PLAY
Sunday, May 19, 1:00pm
Edwin Markham House in History Park
1650 Senter Road, San José, CA 95112
Admission FREE
Free parking in the Staff/Volunteer lot on Phelan Avenue

Questions? Call 408-368-0353
RSVP recommended but not required: poetsatplay@pcsj.org

Upcoming at Willow Glen readings:
May 16: David Denny, Cupertino Poet Laureate
June 20: Bob Dickerson, De Anza JC Instructor
July 18: Timothy Myers, SCU Instructor
August 15: Christine Richardson, Willow Glen Co-host
September 19: Deborah Kennedy, Eco Artist, Educator
October 17: Peter N Carroll, Stanford Instructor
November 21: Marta Wallien, MFA SJSU
December 19: Nils Peterson, Poet Extraordinaire
January 16: Nils Peterson, Poet At Large

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