Margin Shift Presents: Aug 18, 2022

Thu Aug 18 2022 at 06:30 pm to 09:00 pm

Common Area Maintenance | Seattle

Margin Shift Collective
Publisher/HostMargin Shift Collective
Margin Shift Presents: Aug 18, 2022 featuring poetry and prose by: Lila Bonow, Serena Chopra, Michael Haeflinger, Ching-in Chen, and Tanya Holtland
About this Event

Coming to you from the ancestral and physical homeland of the Duwamish, Muckleshoot, and other Coast Salish tribes, we're bringing that 3rd Thursday magic once again to Belltown

This reading will take place at Common Area Maintenance (2125 2nd Ave)

And in your living spaces via our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/MarginShift/live

We'll open the doors at 6:30 and start the reading/livestream at 7pm

Depending on Covid case-counts, we may ask people to mask, so please bring yours (though masks will also be provided)

Check out this month's lineup:

Lila Bonow is a biracial Black writer born into a counter-culture family in Seattle. Her poems have appeared in the Shout Your Abortion coffee table book and in Fragments Literary Magazine. She was recently awarded a fellowship with Centrum in Port Townsend and will be applying for MFA programs in Poetry this fall. You can reach her at [email protected]

Serena Chopra is a teacher, writer, dancer, filmmaker, soundscape designer and a visual and performance artist. She has a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Denver and an MFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is a MacDowell Fellow, a Kundiman Fellow, a 2011-2013 Redline artist in Residence, a 2016-2017 Fulbright Scholar (Bangalore, India), and has received a month-long artist residency at Understudy Denver for September 2021. She has two books, This Human (Coconut Books 2013) and Ic (Horse Less Press 2017), as well as two films, Dogana/Chapti (2018, winner of ArtHyve’s Archives as Muse Film grant, Official Selection at Frameline43, Oregon Documentary Film Festival, Seattle Queer Film Festival, Nahia Film Festival and Cinema Diverse) and Mother Ghosting (2018). She is an 8-year company member with Evolving Doors Dance and was recently a featured artist in Harper’s Bazaar (India) as well as in the Denver Westword’s “100 Colorado Creatives.” She has recent publications in Foglifter, Sink and Matters of Feminist Practice(Belladonna). Serena is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Seattle University.


Buy her books at: https://bookshop.org/contributors/serena-chopra

Michael Haeflinger is the author of Low Static Rage (Blue Cactus Press, 2019). He lives in Tacoma, WA.

Buy a copy of Low Static Range at: https://bluecactuspress.com/product/low-static-rage/

Descended from ocean dwellers, Ching-In Chen is a genderqueer Chinese American writer, community organizer and teacher. They are author of The Heart’s Traffic: a novel in poems (Arktoi Books/Red Hen Press, 2009) and recombinant (Kelsey Street Press, 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry winner) as well as chapbooks to make black paper sing (speCt! Books) and Kundiman for Kin :: Information Retrieval for Monsters (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, Leslie Scalapino Finalist). Chen is co-editor of The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities (South End Press, 1st edition; AK Press, 2nd edition) and Here Is a Pen: an Anthology of West Coast Kundiman Poets (Achiote Press). They have received fellowships from Kundiman, Lambda, Watering Hole, Can Serrat, Imagining America, Jack Straw Cultural Center and the Intercultural Leadership Institute as well as the Judith A. Markowitz Award for Exceptional New LGBTQ Writers. A community organizer, they have worked in Asian American communities in San Francisco, Oakland, Riverside, Boston, Milwaukee, Houston and Seattle and are currently a core member of the Massage Parlor Outreach Project. They currently teach at University of Washington Bothell in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences and the MFA program in Creative Writing and Poetics and serve as Writer in Residence at the Hugo House. www.chinginchen.com

Buy The Hearts Traffic at: https://redhen.org/book/the-hearts-traffic/

Buy recombinant at: https://www.kelseystreetpress.org/product-page/recombinant-by-ching-in-chen

Tanya Holtland is author of the eco-poetry collection Requisite (Platypus Press), a finalist for the Broken River Prize, and the chapbook Inner River (Drop Leaf Press). Her nonfiction and lyric essays appear in Poetry Northwest, The Offing, The Rupture, EcoTheo Review, and elsewhere. She is a graduate of San Francisco State University’s English and Creative Writing MA program. A Los Angeles native of Dutch-Indonesian descent, she currently lives, works, and writes in Seattle.

Pick up a copy of Requisite at: https://www.tanyaholtland.com/requisite

Event Venue

Common Area Maintenance, 2125 2nd Avenue, Seattle, United States

Tickets

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