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 | 06.11.05 | All-Star Multicultural Poetry ReadingGuyWriters' June Gathering was a smash success! Held on June 11th at MAGNET in the heart of the Castro, the All-Star Multicultural Poetry Reading drew a crowd of thirty for talented gay poets George Chacon, Justin Chin, Brian Teare and Marvin K. White. The poets read their work round-robin style, creating a symphony of diverse voices that held the audience spell-bound with words that were by turns humorous, moving, haunting and musical. GuyWriters' Anthony Williams, who organized the event, moderated the Q&A session, and the poets answered questions about language, audience, and work habits, among other topics. The poets closed the event by reading poems from their favorite wordsmiths. GuyWriters' Gerry LaBuda also presented MAGNET's Kevin Roe with a gift certificate from A Different Light in appreciation of MAGNET's amazing generosity to GuyWriters. Afterwards, the poets socialized with GuyWriters members at the Red Grill Whiskey Lounge. Many thanks to everyone who participated in and attended this special event!George Chacon is a first-generation Costa-Rican American and a native of Los Angeles. Most recently, his poetry has been anthologized in Mischief, Caprice & Other Poetic Strategies (Red Hen Press, 2004), The Los Angeles Review (2005) as well as the online journal The Kenwood Review. His work has also been featured on the Writers at Work website. He has read on-air on the San Diego web-based radio station radioactive, and he is a repeat participant of the Poetry Society of America’s Poetry in Motion (Los Angeles) program. He now calls San Francisco home. Justin Chin is the author of two books of poetry and two books of essays. His most recent book of poems, Harmless Medicine, was a finalist for the 2002 Northern California Book Awards and the Publishing Triangle Awards. His collection of performance art texts, Attack of the Man-Eating Lotus Blossoms, was recently published by Suspect Thoughts Press. The arts editors of the Bay Area Guardian have recognized him with a Guardian Outstanding Local Discovery “Goldie” Award, and Frigate, the literary webzine, commends his critiques of contemporary society as “vivid and defiant, yet poetically innovative and frequently playful.” Raised in Maylasia and Singapore, he now lives in San Francisco. Brian Teare is the recipient of Stegner, National Endowment for the Arts, and MacDowell Colony poetry fellowships. He has published poetry in Ploughshares, Boston Review, Provincetown Arts, Verse, and Seneca Review, among other journals, and his first book, The Room Where I Was Born, was a finalist for the Northern California Book Award, and winner of the 2003 Brittingham Prize and the 2004 Triangle Award for Gay Poetry. Lambda Book Report, which featured him on the cover of their November-December 2004 issue, has said he is “a poet of haunting verse…who mixes a breathy lyric impulse with a desire to understand one’s origins through narrative’s grammar.” Also the author of a recent chapbook, Pilgrim, he is on the graduate writing faculty of the New College of California and the California College of Arts. He lives in Oakland, California. Marvin K. White is the author of two Lambda Literary Award-nominated collections of poetry last rights and nothin' ugly fly (Redbone Press). He is a poet, performer, playwright, visual artist and arts organizer. His poetry has been anthologized in The Road Before Us: 100 Black Gay Poets; My Brothers Keeper; Gents, Bad Boys and Barbarians; Sojourner: Writing in the Age of AIDS; Bum Rush the Page; Role Call; and Think Again. A former member of the critically acclaimed performance troupe Pomo Afro Homos, he is a co-founder of B/GLAM (Black Gay Letters and Arts Movement), an organization whose goal is to preserve, present and incubate black gay artistic expressions. He lives in Oakland, California. |
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