Sherry Quan Lee, Ann Freeman, Lori Young-Williams
I've never doing a reading from my blog before so this is exciting!
Intermedia Arts in partnership with Hamline University
presents
Queer Voices: A Reading of GLBT Writers & Friends
hosted by curators Andrea Jenkins and John Medeiros
Wednesday, April 22, 2009, 7:00 p.m.
Hamline University
1536 Hewitt Avenue
Giddens Learning Center, 100E
St. Paul, Minnesota 55104
LORI YOUNG-WILLIAMS is a prose poet born in St. Paul. She comes from a working class family that believes in laughter, crying, and praying when times are good, bad or otherwise. She received her degree in Human Relationships with an emphasis in family relationships from the University of Minnesota, and works a 9-5 job in Human Resources and Finance, though her passion is her writing. Most of her poetry is about her family—family relationships and how they impact her life. She has been published in Interrace magazine, the Turtle River Press, the National Library of Poetry, Quill Books, Dust & Fire. She has self-published two chapbooks, and has read in various bookstores, coffee shops, and spoken word events throughout the Twin Cities. Lori recently was accepted as a participant for the Givens Black Writers Retreat, with Sonja Sanchez and Carolyn Holbrook.
ANN FREEMAN is an artist, writer, connector, wannabe DJ, mother, grandmother, queer girl, whitegirl in an otherwise brown family, and still dancing after all these years. She is an infrequent yet enthusiastic performer in the Twin Cities art scene. She will be reading from her blog, Embrace Your Age ‘Cause You Livin’! Ann is an interloper in tonight's reading. She is totally queer, once thought she was straight, but has never been narrow.
SHERRY QUAN LEE, author of Chinese Blackbird, 2002 (“an underground favorite”), and How to Write a Suicide Note, 2008, approaches writing as a community resource and as culturally based art of an ordinary everyday practical aesthetic. Currently she is the Program Associate for the Split Rock Arts Program summer workshops and the Online Mentoring for Writers Program at the University of Minnesota where she also earned her MFA in Creative Writing. Recently retired from ten years of teaching Creative Writing at Metropolitan State University, Sherry Quan Lee continues to mentor and teach community writing workshops. She was a first year participant of Cave Canem, a writing retreat for Black poets, and previously curated cabaret performances and edited journal anthologies for the Asian American Renaissance.
For more information, call 651-523-2047
The GLBT Reading Series, presented by Intermedia Arts and Hamline University, celebrates the rich diversity of queer voices that make up the Twin Cities community of writers, readers, and their audiences, offering public readings by both emerging and established local writers and poets.
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