Episode #75: Jai Arun Ravine, author of “แล้ว and then entwine” and Margaret Rhee, author of ” Yellow/노란/ 노랑/Yellow” on Weds. January 25th at 2 pm PST/ 5 pm EST

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A Tinfish Press double header!

Join Rachelle as she talks with Jai Arun Ravine, author of “แล้ว and then entwine” and Margaret Rhee, author of ” Yellow/노란/ 노랑/Yellow” on Wednesday, January 25th  at 2 pm PST/5 pm EST.

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Jai Arun Ravine - Photo by Paul Ocampo

Jai Arun Ravine is a trans/gender/queer mixed race Thai American writer, dancer, video and performance artist. They are the author of “แล้ว and then entwine” (Tinfish Press, 2011), the chapbook “Is This January” (Corollary Press, 2010) and the graphic poem-novel “The Spiderboi Files.” A recipient of fellowships from ComPeung, Djerassi and Kundiman, their short experimental film on Thai trans-masculinities, Tom/Trans/Thai, recently exhibited at the Bangkok Art and Culture Center, Thailand.  You can find their blog here: http://jaiarunravine.wordpress.com/

Margaret Rhee

Margaret Rhee is an interdisciplinary scholar, poet, and media artist.
She has published poetry in the Berkeley Poetry Review, Kartika Review
and co-edited the chapbook anthology, Here is a Pen: An Anthology of
West Coast Kundiman Asian American Poets (Achiote Press). She is the
managing editor of Mixed Blood, a literary journal on innovative
poetics and race, edited by C.S. Giscombe.  Currently, she is a
doctoral student at the University of California, Berkeley in Ethnic
Studies, with designated emphasis in New Media and Gender and Women
Studies. Her first poetry chapbook Yellow/노란/ 노랑/Yellow was published
from Tinfish Press. She is a Kundiman fellow.

Episode #74: Khadijah Queen, author of BLACK PECULIAR, on Wednesday, December 7th at 2 pm PST/ 5 pm EST

Join Rachelle as she talks with Khadijah Queen, author of BLACK PECULIAR, on Wednesday, December 7th at 2 pm PST/5 pm EST.

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Khadijah Queen was born near Detroit and raised in Southern California. A Cave Canem Fellow, she holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles and a BA in English from University of Maryland. Her first poetry collection is Conduit, published in 2008 under the Black Goat imprint at Akashic Books. Individual poems appear in numerous journals and anthologies, with new work forthcoming in jubilat and In Posse Review. A chapbook, No Isla Encanta (2007), is available from dancing girl press. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize three times.

Khadijah has performed and exhibited at venues around the country, including Poetry@TECH at Georgia Institute of Technology, Beyond Baroque in Venice, CA; Eyedrum alternative art space in Atlanta; and Macaulay Honors College (CUNY) in New York City, where she curates an annual multicultural/multi-genre reading and performance series, Courting Risk. A video and sound piece, Gibberish, was screened at the Seattle Art Museum.

Her second manuscript, Black Peculiar, won the 2010 Noemi Book Award for Poetry and she is presently working on her third and fourth collections.

Episode #73: Traci Brimhall, author of OUR LADY OF THE RUINS, on Thursday, Nov. 10th at 11 am PST/ 2 pm EST

Join Rachelle as she talks with Traci Brimhall, author of OUR LADY OF THE RUINS on Thursday, Nov. 10th at 11 am PST/2 pm EST.

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Traci Brimhall is the author of Our Lady of the Ruins (forthcoming from W.W. Norton), selected by Carolyn Forché for the 2011 Barnard Women Poets Prize, and Rookery (Southern Illinois University Press, 2010), winner of the 2009 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award and finalist for the ForeWord Book of the Year Award. Her poems have appeared in New England Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Slate, The Missouri Review, Kenyon Review Online, FIELD, Indiana Review and Southern Review. She is a former Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing and a current Emerging Writer Fellow at The Writer’s Center. She has also received scholarships and fellowships to the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and the Disquiet International Literary Program.

She holds degrees from Florida State University and Sarah Lawrence College. Currently, she teaches creative writing at Western Michigan University where she is a doctoral candidate and a King/​Chávez/​Parks Fellow. She also serves as Poetry Editor for Third Coast and Editor at Large for Loaded Bicycle.

Episode Episode #72: Brian Teare, author of PLEASURE, on Thursday, Oct. 6th at 12 pm PST/ 3 pm EST

Join Rachelle as she talks with Brian Teare, author of PLEASURE on Thursday, Oct 6th at 12 pm PST/3 pm EST.

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Poet Brian Teare, author of PLEASURE

A former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, Brian Teare is the recipient of poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the MacDowell Colony and the Marin Headlands Center for the Arts. He has published poetry and criticism in American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Ploughshares, St. Mark’s Poetry Project Newsletter, Seneca Review, Verse and VOLT, as well as in the anthologies Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century and At the Barriers: The Poetry of Thom Gunn. He’s published three full-length books - The Room Where I Was Born, Sight Map, and Pleasure - as well as the chapbooks Pilgrim and Transcendental Grammar Crown.

Sight Map was named “A Best Poetry Book of 2009″ by the San Francisco Chronicle, and his first book, The Room Where I Was Born, was awarded the 2003 Brittingham Prize and the 2004 Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry. On the graduate faculty of the University of San Francisco and Mills College, he lives in San Francisco, where he makes books by hand for his micropress, Albion Books. www.brianteare.net

Episode #71: Shailja Patel, author of MIGRITUDE, on Tuesday, Sept. 13th at 11 am PST/ 2 pm EST

Join Rachelle as she talks with Shailja Patel, author of MIGRITUDE on Tuesday, September 13th at 11 am PST / 2 pm EST.

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Shailja Patel is an internationally acclaimed Kenyan poet, playwright, theatre artist and activist. Her US publishing debut, MIGRITUDE, was an Amazon poetry bestseller, and a Seattle Times Bestseller. Trained as a political economist, accountant and yoga teacher, she honed her poetic skills in performances that have received standing ovations on three continents. She has appeared on the BBC World Service, Al Jazeera, and NPR, and her work has been translated into 13 languages. CNN calls her “the face of globalization as a phenomenon of migration and exchange.”  

Honors include the African Guest Writer Fellowship at the Nordic Africa Institute, a Sundance Theatre Fellowship, a Creation Fund Award from the National Performance Network, the Fanny-Ann Eddy Poetry Award from IRN-Africa, the Voices of Our Nations Poetry Award, a Lambda Slam Championship, and the Outwrite Poetry Prize. A founding member of Kenyans for Peace, Truth and Justice, Patel’s groundbreaking project to empower grassroots Kenyan activists with advocacy skills was recognized with a LEAP grant from New Tactics In Human Rights, one of only seven awarded globally.

Episode #70: Noelle Kocot, author of THE BIGGER WORLD, on Tuesday, Sept. 6th at 11 am PST/ 2 pm EST

Join Rachelle as she talks with Noelle Kocot, author of THE BIGGER WORLD on Tuesday, September 6th at 11 am PST / 2 pm EST.

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Noelle Kocot, author of THE BIGGER WORLD

Noelle Kocot is the author of five books of poetry, including Poem for the End of Time and Other Poems (Wave Books 2006), Sunny Wednesday (Wave 2009) and The Bigger World (Wave 2011).  She is also the author of a discography, Damon’s Room (Wave 2010), as well as the translator of a book of poems by the French poet Tristan Corbiere, which will be out from Wave this October.  Kocot has received numerous awards for my work, including those from The Academy of American Poets, The National Endowment for the Arts, The American Poetry Review and The Fund for Poetry.  Originally from Brooklyn, she now lives in New Jersey and teach writing in New York.

Episode #69: David Meischen and Scott Wiggerman, editors of WINGBEATS:EXERCISES AND PRACTICE IN POETRY, on Tues., August 23rd at 11 am PST/2 pm EST

Join Rachelle as she talks with David Meischen and Scott Wiggerman, editors of WINGBEATS:EXERCISES AND PRACTICE IN POETRY on Tuesday, August 23rd at 11 am PST / 2 pm EST.

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Scott Wiggerman
Co-founder and Editor-in-Chief, Scott is the author of two books of poetry, Presence, forthcoming from Pecan Grove Press, and Veg etables and Other Relationships. A frequent workshop instructor, he is also the editor of the Dos Gatos Press anthol ogy Big Land, Big Sky, Big Hair. His Texas-themed sonnet, “Bluebonnets in Decem ber,” received the 2010 Christina Sergeyevna Award.

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David Meischen
Co-founder and Managing Editor, David has had poetry in Borderlands, Cider Press Review, Southern Poetry Review, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. In December 2009, he completed an MFA in fiction at Texas State University in San Marcos. Recipient of a 2010 fellowship with the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, he is working on a collection of stories set in the fictional town of Nopalito, Texas.

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Episode #68: Duriel Harris, author of AMNESIAC, on Tuesday, August 16th at 10 am PST/1 pm EST

Join Rachelle as she talks with Duriel Harris, author of AMNESIAC on Tuesday, August 16th at 10 am PST / 1 pm EST.

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Duriel E. Harris is the author of Drag (Elixir Press, 2003) and Amnesiac: Poems (Sheep Meadow Press, 2010).  A poet/performer, sound artist and scholar, Harris is a member of Douglas Ewart and Inventions free jazz ensemble and co-founder of Black Took Collective. Her current projects include the AMNESIAC media art project and “Thingification,” a solo play in one act.  She is an assistant professor of English and teaches creative writing and poetics at Illinois State University. www.durielharris.com

Episode #67: Marie-Elizabeth Mali, author of STEADY MY GAZE, on Tuesday, July 26th at 11 am PST/2 pm EST

Join Rachelle as she talks with Marie-Elizabeth Mali, author of STEADY MY GAZE on Tuesday, July 26th at 11 am PST / 2 pm EST.

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Marie-Elizabeth Mali is the author of Steady, My Gaze (Tebot Bach, 2011). She serves as co-curator for louderARTS: the Reading Series at Bar 13 Lounge and Page Meets Stage at the Bowery Poetry Club, both in New York City. Before receiving her MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College, she practiced Traditional Chinese Medicine. Her work has appeared in Calyx, Poet Lore, and RATTLE, among others. www.memali.com