Sunday Kind of Love Reading & Open Mic Series: José Gonzalez & Wo Chan
Split This Rock’s Sunday Kind of Love Reading and Open Mic Series presented Wo Chan and José B. González on March 19, 2017. Co-sponsored by Kundiman, an organization promoting Asian poets and poetry, and Letras Latinas, the Literary Arts Program of the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame. The event was part of the Poetry Coalition’s Because We Come from Everything: Poetry & Migration campaign.More info on the campaign and the Poetry Coalition here: https://www.poets.org/academy-american-poets/poetry-coalitionSplit This Rock is a national poetry non-profit based in DC that works to cultivate, teach, and celebrate poetry that bears witness to injustice and provokes social and personal change. More info at www.splitthisrock.orgThis event occurred on March 19, 2017, 5-7 pm, at Busboys and Poets (14th and V), 2021 14th St NW, Washington, DC, 20009Wo Chan is a poet, writer, and drag performer. Wo holds honors from Kundiman, Lambda Literary, Millay Colony of the Arts, and the Asian American Writers Workshop, and is the author of the chaplet ORDER THE WORLD, MOM (Belladonna Press, 2016). Wo has performed their work at NY Live Art, Dixon Place, BAM Fisher, VOX Populi, and the Architectural Digest Expo. Wo is a standing member of the Brooklyn-based drag & burlesque alliance Switch n’ Play.José B. González is the author of the International Book Award Finalist, Toys Made of Rock, based on his life growing up in El Salvador and the U.S. He has been featured at the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian, colleges and universities throughout the U.S., American Latino TV, NPR, and has had his work anthologized in the Norton Introduction to Literature, Theatre Under My Skin: Contemporary Salvadoran Poetry, and The Wandering Song: Central American Writing in the United States. He is the co-editor (with John S. Christie) of Latino Boom: An Anthology of U.S. Latino Literature, and is the editor of LatinoStories.Com. A Fulbright Scholar, González has been the recipient of the NEATE English Poet of the Year Award and the Latino de Oro Culture and Arts Award. He teaches Latino literature and creative writing at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, CT.Sunday Kind of Love offers a stage for emerging and established poets from the Washington, D.C. area and around the nation. Sunday Kind of Love includes featured poets and an open mic segment. Tickets are $5 and can be purchased online the day of the event or at the door: http://busboysandpoets.com/events/info/get-tickets.For questions or more information, please email info@splitthisrock.org.Cosponsored by Busboys and Poets and Split This Rock.