Come celebrate the launch of Dorothy Chan's latest book, Return of the Chinese Femme (Deep Vellum Publishing, 2024) with a spectacular night of poetry readings and community!!! Joining Dorothy this fabulous evening will be poets Alan Chazaro, Justin Greene, and Darius Simpson!
Dorothy Chan is the author of five poetry collections, including Return of the Chinese Femme (Deep Vellum, April 2024) and Revenge of the Asian Woman (Diode Editions, 2019), a finalist for the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize and the Lambda Literary Award in Bisexual Poetry. They are an Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and Co-Founder and Editor in Chief of Honey Literary Inc., a 501(c)(3) BIPOC literary arts organization. Chan was a 2022 recipient of the University of Wisconsin System’s Dr. P.B. Poorman Award for Outstanding Achievement on Behalf of LGBTQ+ People. This summer they will be a Visitor at Sewanee Writers' Conference.
Alan Chazaro is born and raised in the Bay Area to Mexican immigrants. He is the author of This Is Not a Frank Ocean Cover Album (Black Lawrence Press, 2019), Piñata Theory (Black Lawrence Press, 2020) and Notes from the Eastern Span of the Bay Bridge (Ghost City Press, 2021). A graduate of June Jordan’s Poetry for the People program at UC Berkeley and a former Lawrence Ferlinghetti Poetry Fellow at the University of San Francisco, he currently wanders around his home region as a journalist for KQED Arts and Culture.
Justin Greene is a poet, editor, and translator pursuing a PhD in anthropology at UC Berkeley. His work appears or is forthcoming in Pleiades, Annulet, Anthropology News, DIAGRAM, and elsewhere. He is currently writing an ethnography on leftist publication in São Paulo, Brazil.
Darius Simpson is a New Afrikan writer, educator, performer, and skilled living room dancer from Akron, Ohio. Much like the means of production, he believes poetry must be used for the positive social, political, and economic development of the majority of society. He aims to inspire those chills that make you frown and slightly twist up ya face in approval. Darius believes in the dissolution of empire and the total liberation of Africans and all oppressed people by any means available. Free All Political Prisoners. Free The People. Free The Land.