BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Hugo House - ECPv6.3.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Hugo House X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://hugohouse.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Hugo House REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20150308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20151101T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150521T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150521T210000 DTSTAMP:20240328T072034 CREATED:20150422T070900Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150422T070900Z UID:247886-1432234800-1432242000@hugohouse.org SUMMARY:Writing Heritage: Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month DESCRIPTION:  \nAlong with Kundiman\, Hugo House presents a reading in honor of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month. \nFeatured readers include: \nEJ Koh\nHarold Taw\nJane Wong\nMichelle Peñaloza\nOliver de la Paz\nPrageeta Sharma\n\nPoet Arlene Kim emcees.\n  \n\nAbout the Readers\n  \nEJ Koh is a poet and translator of Korean literary works. She has appeared in World Literature Today\, TriQuarterly\, Southeast Review\, Columbia Review\, and Privacy Policy: The Anthology of Surveillance Poetics from Black Ocean Press (ed. Andrew Ridker\, 2014). She has also featured in Flavorwire’s 23 People Who Will Make You Care About Poetry and Culture Trip’s 10 Americans Changing the Face of Poetry. She accepted fellowships and residencies at Kundiman\, The MacDowell Colony\, and the Napa Valley’s Writers’ Conference. She earned her Masters of Fine Arts in Poetry and Literary Translation at Columbia University in New York.\n  \n\nMichelle Peñaloza’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in the New England Review\, the Asian American Literary Review\, TriQuarterly\, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of fellowships and scholarships from Kundiman\, Hugo House\, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, among others. Peñaloza has been teaching since 2005.\n  \n\nPrageeta Sharma is the author of four poetry collections: Bliss to Fill\, The Opening Question\, Infamous Landscapes\, and the recent Undergloom. She was a recipient of the 2010 Howard Foundation Award. She is a professor of English at the University of Montana.\n  \nHarold Taw is the author of the novel Adventures of the Karaoke King (Lake Union Publishing 2011). His writing has been featured on NPR\, in a New York Times bestselling anthology\, and in the Seattle Times; his screenplay Dog Park has garnered recognition in domestic and international film festivals and competitions. Harold is currently completing a novel about a turbulent adolescence in Southeast Asia and collaborating on a musical adaptation of Jane Austen’s Persuasion for the 5th Avenue Theatre Writers Group. A Yale Law School graduate and a Fulbright Scholar\, Harold’s research and writing has been supported by\, among others\, 826 Seattle\, Artist Trust\, Centrum\, the Helen Riaboff Whiteley Center\, Humanities Washington\, Jack Straw Productions\, and Wing Luke Museum. \n\n  \n\nJane Wong‘s poems can be found in places such as Best American Poetry 2015\, Best New Poets 2012\, The Volta\, Hayden’s Ferry Review\, Tupelo Quarterly\, and others. A Kundiman fellow\, she is the recipient of fellowships and scholarships from the U.S. Fulbright Program\, the Fine Arts Work Center\, Squaw Valley\, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. She lives in Seattle\, where she teaches at the Hugo House and the University of Washington. URL:https://hugohouse.org/event/writing-heritage-celebrating-asian-american-and-pacific-islander-heritage-month/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR