A Public Poetry Reading: They Rise Like a Wave

诗歌诵读会：他们像浪潮一样涌现

Time: Saturday, April 1, 2023, 2:00–4:30 pm

Location: Fou Gallery, 410 Jefferson Avenue, #1, Brooklyn, New York, NY 11221

Participating Poets: Allison Albino, Dena Igusti, Kailee Pedersen, Megan Pinto, Jess Yuan

Initiator: Catherine Chen

Organizers: Iris Zhang, Barbara Song

Capacity: 30 people

Free to public

时间: 2023年4月1日星期六, 下午2:00–4:30

地点: Fou Gallery, 410 Jefferson Avenue, #1, Brooklyn, New York, NY 11221

活动参与诗人：Allison Albino, Dena Igusti, Kailee Pedersen, Megan Pinto, Jess Yuan

活动发起人：Catherine Chen

活动组织：张琦，宋东玥

人数限额: 30人

免费对公众开放

Fou Gallery cordially invites you to participate in A Public Poetry Reading: They Rise Like a Wave on Saturday, April 1, 2:00–4:30 pm. The event was initiated by poet and performer Catherine Chen and co-organized by Fou Gallery. Catherine Chen keenly captured the non-linear narrative curatorial concept adopted by Fou Gallery's current exhibition Meng Du: Shadow of Day, Shadow of Night, combined with the poetic literariness of Meng Du's works, hoping to create a speculative feast to focus on female creators and practitioners in the field of contemporary art, as well as the general public who are interested in this topic. Poets invited to this public poetry reading include Allison Albino, Dena Igusti, Megan Pinto, Kailee Pedersen, and Jess Yuan. The event is free and open to the public, and books They Rise Like a Wave and derivatives will be available for purchase, with a portion of proceeds going to the Red Canary Song organization.

The public poetry reading features poets from They Rise Like a Wave (2022), an anthology of Asian American women poets edited by Christine Kitano and Alycia Pirmohamed and published by Blue Oak Press. This poetry anthology aims to amplify the voices of Asian American women and non-binary poets in response to the challenges of reality. The authors include widely published and acclaimed poets such as Marilyn Chin, Franny Choi, Victoria Chang, Devi S. Laskar, and Bhanu Kapil, and emerging poets such as Paul Tran, Ryka Aoki, Hyejung Kook, and Monica Sok. The collection is committed to cultivating boundary-breaking poetics, experimenting with language, and revitalizing the historically narrow and oppressive Western canon. They Rise Like a Wave intends to highlight that Asian American poetics cannot be reduced to a singular category or theme. Instead, the anthology intends to remind readers, particularly during this period of renewal and synthesis, that poetry has the power to both reflect lived experiences and inspire individuals to envision a more beautiful world.

否画廊诚挚邀请您参加将于4月1日周六下午2:00–4:30举办的公共诗歌朗读交流会：他们像浪潮一样涌现。本次活动由诗人及表演者凯瑟琳·陈发起，否画廊共同承办。凯瑟琳·陈敏锐地捕捉到否画廊当下展览《杜蒙：白日之影，暗夜之影》采用的非线性叙事策展理念，并结合艺术家杜蒙作品中诗意的文学性，希望创造一场思辨盛宴，以此聚焦投身于当代艺术领域的女性创作者，从业者，以及对此话题感兴趣的普罗大众。本场公共诗歌朗读交流会邀请的朗诵诗人包括：Allison Albino，Dena Igusti，Megan Pinto，Kailee Pedersen和Jess Yuan。活动免费对公众开放，现场将有书籍和周边艺术品可供购买，部分收益将捐赠于Red Canary Song组织。

本次诗歌朗读活动邀请的诗人来自诗歌集《他们像浪潮一样涌现》(2022年)，这是由Christine Kitano和Alycia Pirmohamed编辑，由Blue Oak 出版社出版的一本亚裔美国女性诗人选集。面对现实的困境，《他们像浪潮一样涌现》这本诗歌选集旨在为亚裔美国女性与非二元性别诗人发声。作者包括广泛出版的知名诗人Marilyn Chin，Franny Choi，Victoria Chang，Devi S. Laskar和Bhanu Kapil，以及新兴诗人，例如Paul Tran，Ryka Aoki，Hyejung Kook和Monica Sok。此诗歌集在选择作品时致力于培育一种打破界限的诗学，用语言进行实验，让历史上狭隘而压抑的西方经典重新焕发活力。《他们像浪潮一样涌现》展示了亚裔美国诗歌的多样性和主题的丰富性，并希望在这个融合和重生的时刻提醒人们，诗歌既可以反映生活经验，也可以激励人们勇敢想象如何构建一个美丽新世界。

Meng Du, *Apartment - A Book - Apt 410,* 2022. Glass, tea, sticker, copper wire, 12.2 x 7.3 x 2 inches. Photograph by Jingxin Hu

About the Initiator

Catherine Chen is a poet and performer of Taiwanese heritage. Their writing has been published in Slate, The Rumpus, Hyperallergic, Apogee, and Nat. Brut, among others. They are the author of the chapbook Manifesto or: Hysteria (Big Lucks, 2019) and the forthcoming full-length collection Beautiful Machine Woman Language (Noemi Press, 2023). They have been awarded fellowships and residencies from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Monson Arts Center, Millay Colony, Poets House, and Lambda Literary. They have performed at the Museum of Moving Image, Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Omaha Under the Radar, Nowadays, and elsewhere. Their work has been supported by Creative Capital, Ma-Yi Theater, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, City Artists Grant Corps via New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), and Sundress Academy for the Arts.

关于活动发起人

Catherine Chen 是一位具有台湾传统文化背景的诗人和表演者。他们的作品曾发表于 Slate、The Rumpus、Hyperallergic、Apogee 和 Nat.Brut 等出版物。他们出版了诗集 Manifesto, or: Hysteria（Big Lucks，2019）和即将面世的长篇诗集 Beautiful Machine Woman Language（Noemi Press，2023）。他们曾获得来自 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council、Monson Arts Center、Millay Colony、Poets House 和 Lambda Literary 的奖学金并参与驻地艺术家计划。他们曾在 Museum of Moving Image、Asian American Writers’ Workshop、Omaha Under the Radar、Nowadays 等场所表演。他们的作品得到了 Creative Capital、Ma-Yi Theater、Foundation for Contemporary Arts 和由 New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) 发起的 City Artists Grant Corps 以及 Sundress Academy for the Arts 的支持。

An Example of Catherine Chen‘s work: Lunar letters between Kiran Bath & Catherine Chen

New moon

I cannot bear the scent of my body let alone its ‎essence its touch

I licked my right inner forearm knowing I’d encounter a breakthrough

Regarding the translation as typo can you tell me how the moon ends?

Do not hold doors do not trample grass do not disturb dreams of infancy

Writing my manner of thinking requires a sensibility I have seriously degraded by spending

most of my life in spaces neither equipped nor inoculated to handle any degree of nuance

likewise wearing my sentences to their point of exhaustion means every paragraph is an

indicator of becoming more and more spent

In English I pen my signature on official documentation in Chinese I write thank you cards to aunts

I haven’t seen in over 10 years

A sense for free form gesture or everyday calligraphy requires repetition

She reaches for my left temple then strokes my hand then turns around

Much like a noose I’ve always wanted to transform a painting, e.g. vandalize it

——Chen to Bath

Photo from the project: *BETEL NUT BEAUTY* (2021) by Catherine Chen

Participating Poets

Allison Albino

Allison Albino is a Filipina-American poet and French teacher who lives and writes in Harlem. Her work has appeared in Narrative, The Rumpus, The Lantern Review, Poetry Northwest, The Indiana Review, The Alaska Quarterly Review, The Common, and elsewhere. Her writing has received support from The Community of Writers, The Kenyon Review, and Tin House. She studied creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College and has an M.A. in French literature from NYU. She teaches at The Dalton School in New York City.

Allison Albino是一位菲律宾裔美国诗人和法语老师，居住在哈莱姆区并从事写作。她的作品曾发表于Narrative、The Rumpus、The Lantern Review、Poetry Northwest、The Indiana Review、The Alaska Quarterly Review、The Common等期刊。她的写作曾获得过The Community of Writers、The Kenyon Review和Tin House等机构的支持。她在Sarah Lawrence College学习了创意写作，并在纽约大学获得了法国文学硕士学位。她现在在纽约市的道尔顿学校任教。

Dena Igusti

Dena Igusti is a queer, non-binary Indonesian Muslim poet, playwright, filmmaker, and FGC survivor & activist born and raised in Queens, New York. They are the author of CUT WOMAN (Game Over Books, 2020), which has been listed as a 2022 Perennial Award Winner and 2020 Harvard Bookstore Staff Pick and an Entropy Mag’s Best Of 2020-2021. They are a 2023 Asian American Writers’ Workshop Open City Fellow, 2023 Culture Push Fellow, 2022 Sundress Arts Resident, 2022 Best of the Net Nominee, 2021 Baldwin For The Arts Resident, 2020 Seventh Wave Editorial Resident, and more.

Dena Igusti是一位印度尼西亚裔、在纽约皇后区出生长大的酷儿非二元性别穆斯林诗人、剧作家、电影制片人和FGC幸存者与活动家。他们是《CUT WOMAN》（Game Over Books，2020）的作者，该诗集荣获2022年的Perennial奖、Entropy Mag 的2020-2021年度最佳作品之一并列入2020年哈佛书店员工精选。他们是2023年亚裔美国作家工作坊开放城市研究员、2023年Culture Push研究员、2022年Sundress Arts驻留艺术家、2022年Best of the Net提名人、2021年Baldwin for the Arts驻留艺术家、2020年Seventh Wave驻留编辑等。

Kailee Pedersen

Kailee Pedersen is the author of fiction, essays, and poetry. She is a two-time honorable mention for the Otherwise Fellowship for emerging artists innovating on gender in speculative fiction. In 2015, she received an Individual Artist Fellowship in Nonfiction from the Nebraska Arts Council. Her poetry on queer and Asian-American themes has additionally received two Pushcart nominations. A graduate of Columbia University with a B.A. in Classics, she was adopted from Nanning, China, in 1996 and grew up in Nebraska, where her family owns a farm. She is represented by Paul Lucas at Janklow & Nesbit.

Kailee Pedersen是小说、散文和诗歌的创作者。她两次荣获Otherwise Fellowship（旨在支持新兴艺术家在幻想小说中创新性地探索性别）的荣誉提名。2015年，她获得了内布拉斯加州艺术委员会颁发的非小说类个人艺术家奖项。她创作的关于酷儿和亚裔美国人主题的诗歌曾被提名两次Pushcart奖。她毕业于哥伦比亚大学，获得古典文学学士学位，1996年从中国南宁被收养，成长于内布拉斯加州，在那里她的家人经营着一座农场。她的代理人是Janklow & Nesbit出版社的Paul Lucas。

Megan Pinto

Megan Pinto's poems can be found or are forthcoming in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Guernica, Ploughshares, Lit Hub, and elsewhere. Megan has received scholarships and fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, the Port Townsend Writers' Conference, Storyknife, and an Amy Award from Poets & Writers. She is currently a 2022-2023 Artist Fellow at The Peace Studio, and her first collection of poetry is forthcoming with Four Way Books in Fall 2024.

Megan Pinto的诗歌作品已发表或即将发表在Los Angeles Review of Books, Guernica, Ploughshares, Lit Hub等期刊。Megan曾获得Bread Loaf Writers会议、Martha's Vineyard Institute的创意写作学院、Port Townsend Writers会议、Storyknife作家驻留项目的奖学金和研究奖金，以及Poets & Writers杂志的艾米奖。她目前是Peace Studio的2022-2023年艺术家研究员，她的第一本诗集将于2024年秋季由Four Way Books出版。

Jess Yuan

Jess Yuan is a poet, educator, and architect. Her first collection, Slow Render, is forthcoming as the winner of the Airlie Prize, and her chapbook Threshold Amnesia (2020) was the winner of the Yemassee Chapbook Contest. She has received support from Kundiman and Miami Writers Institute, and her poems appear in Best New Poets, Tupelo Quarterly Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, jubilat, and elsewhere.

Jess Yuan是一位诗人、教育家和建筑师。她的第一本诗集《Slow Render》将作为Airlie Prize的获奖作品出版，而她2020年的短篇诗集《Threshold Amnesia》则获得了Yemassee短篇诗集大赛的胜利。她曾获得Kundiman和Miami Writers Institute的支持，她的诗歌作品发表在Best New Poets、Tupelo Quarterly Review,、Beloit Poetry Journal、jubilat等期刊。

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