October 29th: Book launch, National Steinbeck Center, Salinas, CA www.steinbeck.org Come party with Shailja Patel and celebrate the launch of her book, Migritude!

Friday, April 30, 7pm East Wind Bookstore 2066 University Ave. Berkeley, Calif. (510) 548-2350 Come out to hear Ed Lin read from Snakes Can’t Run, the follow up to Kaya’s This is a Bust. Also reading are Claire Light and Joel B. Tan.

Tonight (and 7x hereafter!) Shailja Patel on KQED Spark! TV Starting tonight on KQED, Shailja Patel will perform from her one woman show and poetic memoir, Migritude. Migritude is forthcoming from Kaya in smoking hot book form, November, 2010. Showtimes: KQED 9HD Wed, Oct 6, 2010 — 7:30pm Thu, Oct 7, 2010 — 1:30am Fri, […]

“If, as Lisa Chen herself advises in “Translator’s Apologia,” you “…Enter these pages with / The lowered expectations of a prison guard,” you may be pleasantly surprised by the pointed coherence that frequently emerges from Chen’s fantastic verbiage….” Here’s the complete review from POETRY FLASH’s “Mostly Books”, in April of 2010: A Porch Light at […]

Lisa Chen read at UC Berkeley’s acclaimed LUNCH POEMS Series! Watch it here: Born in Taipei, Taiwan, Lisa Chen earned a BA from UC Berkeley and an MFA from the University of Iowa. Her debut collection of poetry, mouth, received a 2009 award from the Association for Asian American Studies. Sesshu Foster says that mouth […]