An Evening with Kathleen Winter, Mong-Lan & Jess Smith

When:
November 10, 2018 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
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Cost:
Free

Join us for an evening with Kathleen Winter, Mong-Lan, and Jess Smith (left to right, below).

Kathleen Winter is the author of two poetry collections, I will not kick my friends (2018), which won the Elixir Poetry Prize, and Nostalgia for the Criminal Past, winner of the 2013 Texas Institute of Letters Bob Bush Memorial Award. Her poems have appeared in Tin House, The New Statesman, Agni, New Republic, Poetry London, The Texas Observer, Gulf Coast, and other journals. Winter was granted fellowships at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Dobie Paisano Ranch, Dora Maar House, James Merrill House and Cill Rialaig Project. She grew up in Texas and teaches writing at Sonoma State in Northern California.

Mong-Lan celebrates the publication of her new book of poems and artwork, Dusk Aflame: poems & art; her new chapbook, Tone of Water in a Half-Filled Glass; and her new tango CD, Perfumas de Amor, de Argentina y Viet Nam (Tango por Siempre). Writer, former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, and Fulbright Scholar, Mong-Lan has published seven books of poetry and artwork and three chapbooks, and has won prizes such as the Juniper Prize, the Pushcart Prize, and the Great Lakes Colleges Association’s New Writers Awards, among others. Frequently anthologized in the Best American Poetry Anthology, she has finished a novel, with an excerpt in the North American Review. A former college professor with the University of Maryland in Tokyo, she left her native Viet Nam on the last day of the evacuation of Sai Gon. Also a musician and composer, she has released ten albums of jazz piano and tangos, which showcase her poetry. As a visual artist, her artwork has been exhibited in galleries in the US, in museums such as the Dallas Museum of Art, and in public exhibitions in Tokyo, Seoul, Bangkok, Bali, and Buenos Aires. Mong-Lan as a dancer has studied ballet, jazz, and flamenco, and has specialized as a tango dancer, performer, and teacher, having over twenty years of tango dance experience, in Buenos Aires, San Francisco, New York City, Tokyo, Bangkok, Hanoi, and elsewhere. Mong-Lan’s new solo show, “Ocean of Senses: Dream Songs & Tangos—one woman’s journey from Sai Gon to Buenos Aires, via America,” blends original poetry, jazz piano, guitar, dance, story, and song.

Jess Smith is currently pursuing a PhD in English at Texas Tech University, where she curates the LHUCA Literary Series. Her work can be found in Prairie Schooner, Waxwing, 32 Poems, The Rumpus, and other journals. She has received scholarships from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and the Vermont Studio Center.

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