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SUMMARY:Kundiman & Verlaine Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Come join us for a night of potent poetry and fruity libat
 ion featuring readings by:\n\nOliver de la Paz, Denise Galang, & Krist
 in Naca\n\nOpen Bar 4:00-5:00pm\n$5 suggested donation\n\nPoets' Bios:
 \nOliver de la Paz is the author of three collections of poetry: Names
  Above Houses, Furious Lullaby, and most recently, Requiem for the Orc
 hard. His work has appeared in journals such as The Black Warrior Revi
 ew, The Southern Review, and Tin House. He is a recipient of grants fr
 om NYFA and the Artists’ Trust of Washington, and he co-chairs the K
 undiman advisory board. He teaches creative writing at Western Washing
 ton University.\n\nKristin Naca was born and raised in the D. C. metro
  area. Since, she has lived in numerous cities across the country, inc
 luding Seattle, Pittsburgh, and San Antonio. Naca’s first collection
  of poems, Bird Eating Bird, was selected for the National Poetry Seri
 es mtvU Prize in 2008 and appears with Harper Perennial. The same coll
 ection was named finalist for the Audre Lorde Prize and Lambda Literar
 y Award. She teaches creative writing, Latino and Asian American Poetr
 y at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. She is a long-time mem
 ber of the Macondo Writers’ Workshop in San Antonio, Texas.\n\nDenis
 e Galang is a native New Yorker of Filipino descent. She received an M
 FA at Brooklyn College. Her poetry has been published in Brooklyn Revi
 ew, Poetry in Performance, and Maganda Literary Journal. Other project
 s include her blog, Being Home, a chapbook titled Split Island, and th
 e daily work of tempering her temper around her three-year-old. Mother
  to two and teacher to scores of eighth-graders, she subsists on words
 , bread, family, and some booze.\n\nFor more information visit http://
 aaartsalliance.org/events/kundiman-verlaine-reading
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CATEGORIES:literary
LOCATION:Verlaine
WEBSITE:http://www.kundiman.org
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