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Kundiman Reading Salon

Fri, Oct 21, 2022 from 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm PDT
925 SW Washington Street Portland, OR 97205

FREE

Kundiman creates a space where Asian Americans can explore, through art, the unique challenges that face the new and ever changing diaspora. We see the arts as a tool of empowerment, of education and liberation, of addressing proactively the legacy we will leave for our future.

In partnership with Literary Arts, Kundiman brings you a reading salon for BIPOC writers. The theme is “Burden, Bliss, and Balance.”

Hosts Jennifer Perrine and Frances Lu-Pai Ippolito will lead writing exercises and a community discussion based on the theme. Writers may then sign up to share in an open mic.

This event is open to everyone, but only people identifying as Black, Indigenous, and/or people of color will be invited to read. Light snacks will be provided.

If you have any questions or wish to register, please email Jessica Meza-Torres at jessica@literary-arts.org.

Jennifer Perrine

Jennifer (JP) Perrine is the author of four books of poetry: Again, The Body Is No Machine, In the Human Zoo, and No Confession, No Mass. JP’s current writing projects include Beautiful Outlaw, a book of poetry composed through elaborate constraints; In the Interest of Time, a collection of short science fiction; Missing/Wanted, a speculative memoir-in-essays; and Nature Is All of Us, a play based on stories of Black, Indigenous, Asian American, and Latinx Oregonians’ experiences with nature and wilderness. Their recent work has been recognized through the Arts and Culture Diversity and Inclusion Award from the Asian American Journalists Association, an Oregon Humanities Community Storytelling Fellowship, a Make | Learn | Build grant from the Regional Arts and Culture Council, the Missouri Review Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize, and residencies at Caldera Arts Center and the Independent Publishing Resource Center. Perrine co-hosts Portland’s Incite: Queer Writers Read series, teaches writing to youth and adults, and guides nature-based mindfulness experiences.
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Frances Lu-Pai Ippolito

Frances Lu-Pai Ippolito is a writer, judge, and mother. When she’s not spending time with her family outdoors in the Pacific Northwest, she’s crafting stories in horror, sci-fi, fantasy, or whatever genre-bending she can get away with. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Nailed Magazine, Red Penguin Collections, Buckman Journal, Flame Tree Press's Asian Ghost Stories, Strangehouse's Chromophobia, Weirdbook of Startling Stories, Not a Pipe's Stories Within, and Black Spot Book's Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror. She also co-chairs the Young Willamette Writers PDX program that provides free writing classes for high school and middle school students.
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