This content was published: April 12, 2024. Phone numbers, email addresses, and other information may have changed.
Carolyn Moore Reading Series: Chen Chen and Sam Herschel Wein
A Program of 小黄猫传媒's Humanities & Arts Initiative
Join us on Wednesday May 15th at 6:30 pm for a poetry event featuring the two May residents of 小黄猫传媒鈥檚 Writers House, Chen Chen and Sam Herschel Wein, as well as April resident Jae Nichelle, and local Portland poets Charity E. Yoro and Eric Tran. The reading, which will take place on 小黄猫传媒鈥檚 Southeast Campus in the Community Hall, is free and open to everyone.
Please contact residency Program Coordinator Justin Rigamonti with questions or to access reading packets by any of the poets: justin.rigamonti@pcc.edu
***
鈥檚 second book,听Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency聽(BOA Editions), was a best book of 2022 according to the聽Boston Globe,听Electric Lit, NPR, and聽others. It was also named a 2023 Notable Book by the American Library Association. His debut,听When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities聽(BOA Editions),听was long-listed for the 2017 National Book Award and won the Thom Gunn Award, among other honors. His work appears in many publications, including聽The聽New York聽Times聽and three editions of聽The Best American Poetry. He has received two Pushcart Prizes and fellowships from Kundiman, the National Endowment for the Arts,听and United States Artists. He teaches for the low-residency MFA programs at New聽England College and Stonecoast. With Sam Herschel Wein and a brilliant team, he edits聽Underblong.
聽(he/they) is a lollygagging plum of a poet who specializes in perpetual frolicking. They have an MFA from the University of Tennessee and were awarded a 2022 Pushcart Prize. Their third chapbook,听Butt Stuff Flower Bush, is forthcoming from Porkbelly Press. He co-founded and edits聽Underblong. They have recent work in聽American Poetry Review,听The Cincinnati Review, and聽Gulf Coast, among others.
Louisiana born and Portland-based,听聽is the author of the poetry collection God Themselves and the chapbook The Porch (As Sanctuary). She was the inaugural poetry winner of the John Lewis Writing Award from the Georgia Writers Association, and her poetry has appeared in聽Best New Poets 2020,听The Washington Square Review,听The Offing Magazine,听Muzzle Magazine, and elsewhere. Her spoken word poems have been featured by Write About Now, Speak Up Poetry Series, and Button Poetry. She is a graduate of Tulane University.
is a queer Vietnamese writer and the author of Mouth, Sugar, and Smoke (Diode Editions, Spring 2022) and The Gutter Spread Guide to Prayer (Autumn House Press, 2020) as well as the chapbooks Revisions (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2018) and Affairs with Men in Suits (Backbone Press, 2014), and he serves as an Associate Editor for Orison Books. Eric is also a聽psychiatrist in Portland, Oregon. He completed his fellowship in Addiction Psychiatry at OHSU, his residency at the Mountain Area Health Education Center, graduated from the UNC School of Medicine, and holds an MFA from UNC Wilmington.
Born and raised on the east side of O驶ahu, is a poet and creative producer residing on the occupied territory of the Atfalati, Clatskanie, and Kalapuya with her partner, daughter, and feisty feline guide named Rumi. Her writing can be found in聽Frontier Poetry, PRISM International, Ruminate Magazine, Fourteen Hills, the聽New York Times鈥檚 Modern Love, and other publications. Her debut poetry collection, ten-cent flower & other territories, was published by First Matter Press in 2023.