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 | 04.08.06 | Poetry by CandelightIn honor of National Poetry Month, GuyWriters presented three Bay Area poets: Jim Coughenour, John Frazier and Joël Barraquiel Tan. Each poet read their work by candlelight, creating a subtle and sensuous symphony of diverse voices. The event also include an answer and questions session.Jim Coughenour is a writer and cartoonist. His short fiction, essays and cartoons have been published in an alarming variety of tiny magazines, homosexual news weeklies and tawdry anthologies (most recently, Kevin Bentley’s Boyfriends from Hell). During the 1990s, he created Daimonix, a line of raw art greeting cards — an artful endeavor that has resurfaced like acid reflux this spring in the bitternessoflife.com, online greetings for the desperately disillusioned. He is an active member of the GuyWriters poetry group. He completed degrees in Political Science (B.A.) and Systematic Theology (M.A.), but refused to finish his Ph.D dissertation at the University of Chicago in Religion and Literature. Thereafter, he pursued la vie de café for a surprising number of years in Chicago and San Francisco before stumbling into a Real Job at the crest of the dot.com boom. John Frazier is a poet and painter. Recently, he was awarded a Fulbright Teacher Exchange, and he has been a MacDowell Fellow. He has published work in The New Republic, The Antioch Review, The Massachusetts Review, Callaloo and many other journals and anthologies. He is a formalist poet and writes mostly sonnets about mythology, animals and visual art. Joël Barraquiel Tan is the author of two books of poetry, Monster (Noice Press) and Type O Negative (Red Hen Press, forthcoming). His latest limited edition chapbook, El Canto de Animal is the first of a trilogy of verse, found text, and fictional autobiography. Joël is the editor of three anthologies of sexual storytelling: Best Gay Asian Erotica Vols. 1 & 2 (Cleis) and Inside Him: New Gay Erotica (Carroll & Graf). His writings have been translated in Italian, Russian, and Tagalog and appear in various academic and commercial venues including Fresh Men: New Voices in Gay Fiction (ed. Edmund White, Carroll & Graf), Q & A: Queer and Asian in America (ed. Alice Hom, Temple University), and Porn! (Haworth). He is the Community Engagement Director for Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. |
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