First Person Plural: Poets Speaking for Self and Community in Poetry and Memoir
Sunday, June 2 | 11:30 AM - 12:45 PMAllston Stage
- BIPOC voices
- Memoir
- Poetry
Come hear some of the Bay Area’s most dynamic poets with new collections of poetry and memoir. Panelists include Brontez Purnell, whose Ten Bridges I’ve Burnt is a wrenching, sexy, and exhilaratingly energetic memoir in genre-defying verse; Priscilla Wathington, whose debut chapbook, Paper & Stick, draws from her experiences as a Palestinian American and her past human rights and humanitarian work with NGOs such as Defense for Children International – Palestine; poet José Vadi, whose book, Chipped: Writing from a Skateboarder’s Lens, is a memoir-in-essays that begins with wheels and a mere piece of wood—often chipped; and Adrienne Chung, whose debut collection, Organs of Little Importance, is a winner of the National Poetry Series that claps back at Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species. The reading will be emceed by Sam Sax, author of Pig, a collection of poems that uses the humble animal as a lens to explore the body, faith, desire, and power.
Book signing information: Books inc (between Native California Stage and Fountain Stage)
