R187. Bite Hard: A Tribute to Justin Chin

Salon F, Washington Convention Center, Level One
Thursday, February 9, 2017
12:00 pm to 1:15 pm

 

Five poets/teachers engage Chin’s work from a wide range of angles, including his association with performance art and slam poetry, his tangling with issues of Asian identity and sexuality through his poetry and hybrid prose, his tactical use of humor to disarm the reader as he explored illness and living with AIDS, his zeroing in on where the personal becomes political, and his Baudelaire-like blending of the elegant and profane.


Participants

Moderator:

Timothy Liu is the author of ten books of poems, including Don't Go Back to Sleep and Let It Ride, as well as a hybrid novel, Kingdom Come. He is a professor of English at William Paterrson University.

Beth Lisick is the author of five books, including the bestselling essay collection Everybody into the Pool and most recently, Yokohama Threeway and Other Small Shames. She has received grants from the Creative Work Fund, Poets & Writers, and the California Arts Council.

David J. Daniels is the author of Clean, winner of the Four Way Intro Prize and a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the Lambda Literary Award for poetry. He is also the author of two chapbooks, Indecency and Breakfast in the Suburbs. He teaches at the University of Denver.

Adrienne Su is the author of four books of poems, most recently Living Quarters. A 2007 NEA fellow, she is poet in residence at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania.

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