Above photo was taken on February 7, 2016 in Chatsworth, California
during a photoshoot for Doren Damico's book of poetry and photography.
during a photoshoot for Doren Damico's book of poetry and photography.
Poetry Reading on Friday, August 16, 2024 at 6 p.m. PST/ 9 p.m. EST.
JENNY PACANOWSKI
BILL EHRHART
TERESA MEI CHUC
WAYNE KARLIN
JAN BARRY
BRUCE WEIGL
GERALD MCCARTHY
STRONG BUFFALO
DOUG RAWLINGS (IF TIME ALLOWS)
THEN READERS FROM VFP:
Bridget Hayes
James Toler
Michael Murphy
Aneesa Ahad
Eric Wasileski
BILL EHRHART
TERESA MEI CHUC
WAYNE KARLIN
JAN BARRY
BRUCE WEIGL
GERALD MCCARTHY
STRONG BUFFALO
DOUG RAWLINGS (IF TIME ALLOWS)
THEN READERS FROM VFP:
Bridget Hayes
James Toler
Michael Murphy
Aneesa Ahad
Eric Wasileski
Asian Poets Writers in Solidarity with Gaza is a reading and fundraiser with authors, organizers, and community members of Los Angeles demanding a permanent ceasefire and an end to the genocide in Gaza. This event requires a ticket purchase of $20. All proceeds of this event will be donated to Medical Aid for Palestinians and a GoFundMe https://www.gofundme.com/f/rebuilding-hope-for-lama-and-family for a mother and her family as they seek shelter and try to evacuate Gaza to survive. Donations to more families can be made through Operation Olive Branch, a Grassroots movement collective to support & amplify aid requests of Palestinian families. https://linktr.ee/opolivebranch
Co-Organized by Teresa Mei Chuc and Carolyn Huynh, the evening will include local organizations and vendors tabling with a variety of resources on the ongoing conflict in Palestine. The program in The Wanda Coleman Theater will feature Asian American authors coming together in support of Palestinian liberation.
Ticket purchase will be required at the door, or guests may provide proof of donation to Medical Aid for Palestinians or any organization committed to providing humanitarian aid to Palestinian families seeking asylum or those affected by wars in the Middle East.
If you don’t have the means to donate but would like to attend the event, please send us an email to [email protected].
Featuring:
Jessica Abughattas
Ghada Morad
Lan Duong
Đỗ Nguyên Mai
Traci Kato-Kiriyama
Muriel Leung
Neela Banerjee
F. Douglas Brown
Arianne Ayu Alizio
Sehba Sarwar
Doors Open: 6:30 PM I Readings: 7:00 PM
Livestream: If you can’t join us in-person the event will be livestreamed on Beyond Baroque’s YouTube channel at the scheduled time of the event.
This event is In-Person at Beyond Baroque. Masks are encouraged while inside our center.
Event attendees are expected to behave in a respectful and considerate manner while in our space. Beyond Baroque reserves the right to remove individuals from our events, virtual or otherwise, if they are not respecting the space, fellow attendees, or performers.
Seating is limited. Please arrive early.
There will be a raffle with signed copies of books by Pulitzer Prize winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen, Poet Lan Duong and more!
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/asian-poets-writers-in-solidarity-with-gaza-tickets-934001241857?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl
Co-Organized by Teresa Mei Chuc and Carolyn Huynh, the evening will include local organizations and vendors tabling with a variety of resources on the ongoing conflict in Palestine. The program in The Wanda Coleman Theater will feature Asian American authors coming together in support of Palestinian liberation.
Ticket purchase will be required at the door, or guests may provide proof of donation to Medical Aid for Palestinians or any organization committed to providing humanitarian aid to Palestinian families seeking asylum or those affected by wars in the Middle East.
If you don’t have the means to donate but would like to attend the event, please send us an email to [email protected].
Featuring:
Jessica Abughattas
Ghada Morad
Lan Duong
Đỗ Nguyên Mai
Traci Kato-Kiriyama
Muriel Leung
Neela Banerjee
F. Douglas Brown
Arianne Ayu Alizio
Sehba Sarwar
Doors Open: 6:30 PM I Readings: 7:00 PM
Livestream: If you can’t join us in-person the event will be livestreamed on Beyond Baroque’s YouTube channel at the scheduled time of the event.
This event is In-Person at Beyond Baroque. Masks are encouraged while inside our center.
Event attendees are expected to behave in a respectful and considerate manner while in our space. Beyond Baroque reserves the right to remove individuals from our events, virtual or otherwise, if they are not respecting the space, fellow attendees, or performers.
Seating is limited. Please arrive early.
There will be a raffle with signed copies of books by Pulitzer Prize winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen, Poet Lan Duong and more!
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/asian-poets-writers-in-solidarity-with-gaza-tickets-934001241857?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl
This IS an amazing panel of publishers of color and I am incredibly honored to be a part of it. Save the date and see you at The Wende Museum at 1 pm on Sat., June 29th! Poetry reading will follow at 3 pm!
POETS FOR PALESTINE ARTISTS AGAINST GENOCIDE
Saturday, June 1st, 2 - 5 p.m.
Espacio 1839
1839 1st Street, Los Angeles, CA
POETS FOR PALESTINE, ARTISTS AGAINST GENOCIDE Join us June 1st to show your solidarity with the Palestinian fight against occupation and genocide. Proceeds from sales of some of the artwork will be donated to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund (PCRF).
VIET BOOK FEST 2024
Sunday, May 5, 2024 all day
Teresa Mei Chuc will be participating in the VIET BOOK FEST Book Market
from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m.
https://vaala.org/viet-book-fest-2024/
Honored to be presenting my poetry chapbook, Incidental Takes, at VIET BOOK FEST BOOK MARKET! See you on Sunday, May 5, 2024 at Bower’s Museum in Santa Ana! --Teresa Mei Chuc
Teresa Mei Chuc will be reading at 1 p.m. in the “Water-Wise Garden” (aka Johnson’s Oval) with the “All About Town Poets”
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Teresa Mei Chuc's poem, "Quan Âm on a Dragon," will be on display during the month of March at Avenue 50 Studio as part of the Keepers of Memory: Women of the Diaspora & Displacement art exhibit.
Tuesday, February 27, 2024, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Location: Altadena Main Library
Former Altadena Poets Laureate Reading
Hazel Clayton Harrison, Thelma Reyna, Elline Lipkin, Teresa Mei Chuc
ISSUE 13 LAUNCH PARTY, SAT. FEB. 24, 2024 AT 6:30 PM AT RE/ARTE IN BOYLE HEIGHTS
Saturday, January 13, 2024, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Ode to the Land Workshop: Nature as Metaphor
Location: Altadena Main Library
Poetry for Peace
Avenue 50 Studio
Sunday, December 17, 2023 at 2 p.m.
Saturday, December 16, 2023 at 3 p.m.
Studio City Library
Please join us on Saturday, December 2, at 6:30 PM at Beyond Baroque for Writers for Palestine, a reading and fundraising event featuring authors, organizers, and community members demanding a permanent ceasefire against Palestinian civilians. All proceeds will be donated to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund (PCRF).
The evening includes testimonies of organizers, music, art, and poetry readings by writers of diverse backgrounds calling for an end to genocide and war crimes committed in Gaza since October 7. In solidarity with Palestinian and Jewish community members demanding peace, we will give space to poets and artists to come together for an evening of expression against war, genocide, and colonization. Organizers from Westside for Palestine, Jewish Voices for Peace, Justice for Palestine, and the Palestinian Youth Movement will be sharing resources and information for those looking to become involved in the movement. To keep immunocompromised community members safe, masks are encouraged in the space.
Featuring:
Sherna Berger-Gluck
Sofia Fey
Paasha Motamedi
Teresa Mei Chuc
Taz Ahmed
Leslie Ortega
Sehba Sarwar
Chekwube Danladi
Sonia Guiñansaca
Rhys Langston
Arminé Iknadossian
Fariha Roisin
T.K. Lê
and more to be announced ...
Tickets will be required at the door, or guests may provide proof of donation to the PCRF or any organization committed to providing humanitarian aid to those affected by wars in the Middle East. Tickets are priced at $10 - $15 on a sliding scale.
If you don't have the means to donate but would like to attend the event, please send us an email to [email protected].
Tickets + RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/writers-for-palestine-fundraiser-for-palestine-childrens-relief-fund-tickets-766603109537?aff=oddtdtcreator
The evening includes testimonies of organizers, music, art, and poetry readings by writers of diverse backgrounds calling for an end to genocide and war crimes committed in Gaza since October 7. In solidarity with Palestinian and Jewish community members demanding peace, we will give space to poets and artists to come together for an evening of expression against war, genocide, and colonization. Organizers from Westside for Palestine, Jewish Voices for Peace, Justice for Palestine, and the Palestinian Youth Movement will be sharing resources and information for those looking to become involved in the movement. To keep immunocompromised community members safe, masks are encouraged in the space.
Featuring:
Sherna Berger-Gluck
Sofia Fey
Paasha Motamedi
Teresa Mei Chuc
Taz Ahmed
Leslie Ortega
Sehba Sarwar
Chekwube Danladi
Sonia Guiñansaca
Rhys Langston
Arminé Iknadossian
Fariha Roisin
T.K. Lê
and more to be announced ...
Tickets will be required at the door, or guests may provide proof of donation to the PCRF or any organization committed to providing humanitarian aid to those affected by wars in the Middle East. Tickets are priced at $10 - $15 on a sliding scale.
If you don't have the means to donate but would like to attend the event, please send us an email to [email protected].
Tickets + RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/writers-for-palestine-fundraiser-for-palestine-childrens-relief-fund-tickets-766603109537?aff=oddtdtcreator
UC Boulder Zoom Poetry Reading
Wednesday, November 8, 2023 at 4 p.m. PST
https://wagingpeaceinvietnam.com/
Saturday, October 7, 2023, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., the Sparr Heights Community Center
Poetry reading, discussion about craft and offering of writing prompts
Hosted by Raffi Joe Wartanian, Poet Laureate, City of Glendale
Friday, September 29, 2023 at 7 p.m., North Figueroa Bookshop
Friday, September 22, 2023 at 8 p.m.
Book Release Reading for INCIDENTAL TAKES by Teresa Mei Chuc at Beyond Baroque
Co-featuring Tanya Ko Hong, Angelina Sáenz, Lisbeth Coiman, & Traci Kato-Kiriyama
Buena Vista Branch Library, Burbank Public Library, Tuesday, August 8, 2023, 7 - 8:30 p.m.
Celebrating two book releases -- Incidental Takes by Teresa Mei Chuc and Letters to My City by Mike Sonksen
2023 Veterans for Peace Convention, Poetry Soirée, Friday, August 25, 2023 at 5 p.m. PST/ 8 p.m. EST
Teresa Mei Chuc & Doug Rawlings read from their collaborative poetry collection, Cầu Tre (Bamboo Bridge): Conversations between a Vietnamese Refugee and an American Veteran
XLA Poets at Buena Vista Library in Burbank, CA, Saturday, July 29, 2023 at 2 p.m.
Wednesday, July 12, 2023 at 1:15 p.m.to 2:45 p.m. Teresa Mei Chuc will be participating on the seven women poets panel, "Poetry, Science, and Reclaiming the Commons: A Reading," in the upcoming Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) conference on July 9-12, 2023 in Portland, Oregon. She will be reading and discussing her poems on "Poetry, War, Colonialism, and the Commons." The panel consists of Teresa Mei Chuc, Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, Lucille Lang Day, Ann Fisher-Wirth, Catherine Gurin, Jasmine Elizabeth Smith, and Angela Trudell Vasquez. Meeting Room F150. Panel schedule details here https://www.asle.org/conference/biennial-conference/schedule-and-events/
Teresa Mei Chuc is an ASLE Travel Award recipient. Her speaker page:
https://site.pheedloop.com/event/asleaess23/speakers/SPEBUZWGISY
Teresa Mei Chuc is an ASLE Travel Award recipient. Her speaker page:
https://site.pheedloop.com/event/asleaess23/speakers/SPEBUZWGISY
Terrain.org 25th Anniversary Reading Portland - A Featured Event of the ASLE/AESS Biennial Conference: Sunday, July 9, 2023 from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Architectural Heritage Center. Featured poets: Jasmine Smith, Joe Wilkins, Derek Sheffield, Teresa Mei Chuc https://www.terrain.org/events/25th-anniversary-reading-portland/
Sunday, June 25, 2023 at 4 p.m. Location: Rissho Kosei-Kai Buddhist Church -
Book Launch for INCIDENTAL TAKES by Teresa Mei Chuc
2 - 4 p.m. - Whole Human Workshop with Amanda Fletcher - bring a yoga mat and dress comfortably.
Thursday, June 1, 2023 at 6 p.m. PST / 8 p.m. CST -- Poets Against SB1718 Virtual Reading hosted by FlowerSong Press.
Poets Against SB 1718 will be a reading of protest against the new legislation and against the current FL Governor.
Reading will take place on 6/1 at 8 PM CST and be hosted by FlowerSong Press, a publisher who has long been involved in the political through poetry and exists to highlight BIPOC voices in literature.
June 1st will also be host to a nationwide community-led labor strike calling for no work, no purchases, and protests all throughout the country in solidarity with the indigenous/immigrant community.
Featured readers include:
Martín Espada
Briana Muñoz
Edward Vidaurre
Teresa Mei Chuc
Iván Salinas
Trini Rodriguez
ignacio carvajal
Cesar L. De Leon
Soul on Fire
and more!
Please register to attend here:
https://poetsagainstsb1718.eventbrite.com/
https://litfestpasadena.org/
LitFest 2023: Pasadena Rose Poets Poetry Reading
Sunday, May 7, 2023,12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Location: Mountain View Mausoleum, 2300 N Marengo Ave, Altadena, CA 91001
Kate Gale, Teresa Mei Chuc, Gerda Govine Ituarte, Hazel Clayton Harrison
LitFest 2023: Writing from Our Immigrant Hearts Panel
Sunday, May 7, 2023, 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Location: Mountain View Mausoleum, 2300 N Marengo Ave, Altadena, CA 91001
Teresa Mei Chuc, Lisbeth Coiman, Toti O'Brien, and Alicia Viguer-Espert. Moderator: Thelma T. Reyna
GARDEN OF VERSES, Saturday, April 1, 2023, Teresa Mei Chuc will be reading her poetry at 11 a.m. at Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Gardens, Claremont, California (Location #2 Waterwise Garden. See map below.)
https://www.calbg.org/event/a-garden-of-verses-2023
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Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, Venice, CA, Saturday, March 25, 2023 at 3 p.m. - Poetry on Non English
Friday, August 26, 2022, 8:30 p.m. (Central Time) VETERANS FOR PEACE 2022 ONLINE CONVENTION--FROM WAR MAKING TO PEACE SEEKING
Saturday, August 13, 2022, 12 p.m. to 5 pm. A DAY OF POETRY IN LOS ANGELES: A CELEBRATION OF POETRY AND COMMUNITY. Los Angeles Central Library, 630 W. Fifth St., Los Angeles, CA 90071 Teresa Mei Chuc, along with 50 poets in Los Angeles, will be reading a poem and celebrating this day of poetry!
Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson and former Anaheim Poet Laureate Grant Hier will host A Day of Poetry in Los Angeles which will include readings by the former Los Angeles Poet Laureate, Luis J. Rodriguez, and the current Los Angeles County Youth Poet Laureate, Salome Agbaroji, as well as sixty other local poets. Due to the number of readers and seating capacity of the Taper Auditorium, there are no seats available inside of the venue to attend the live reading. However, it is being live streamed on the library's YouTube channel.
Saturday, August 13, 2022 | 12:30 pm to 3:30 pm
https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/day-of-poetry
Thursday, July 21, 2022 at 1 p.m., Colburn School. Teresa Mei Chuc will be sharing some poems.
Saturday, May 14, 2022, 6 p.m. at Sims Library of Poetry. Reading for Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) History & Heritage Month.
RSVP here https://www.simslibraryofpoetry.org/event-details/aapi-poetry-show
Saturday, May 14, 2022 at 2 p.m. - LitFest Pasadena at Vroman's Bookstore courtyard with Pasadena Rose Poets
https://litfestpasadena.org/schedule/
Friday, May 6, 2022 at 4 p.m. PST / 7 pm EST - Connections Literary Magazine Publication Reading (virtual)
https://www.csmd.edu/student-services/arts/connections-literary-series/index.html
Wednesday, May 4, 2022 at 6 p.m. - Explorations Beyond Borders
https://www.bookswell.club/event/weho-reads-explorations-beyond-borders/
Even before the pandemic, writers and artists worked across borders to share their lives, passions, and sorrows. This event brings together poets and authors with an international perspective on joy, justice, resilience, and healing.
Sehba Sarwar, author of Black Wings (Veliz Books 2019), is a transnational writer, workshop leader, artist, and community activist tackling gender, displacement, and border issues. Teresa Mei Chuc is a poet, editor, and teacher whose heritage, history, and writing transcend decolonization. She served as 2018-2020 Altadena Poet Laureate and is the author of Invisible Light (Many Voices Press 2018), Keeper of the Winds (FootHills Publishing 2014) and Red Thread (Fithian Press, 2012). Lisbeth Coiman is a bilingual writer, educator, cultural commentator, and rezandera from Venezuela whose collection Uprising / Alzamiento was released in 2021 (Finishing Line Press). Myriam J. A. Chancy is a Haitian-Canadian/American writer born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and subsequently raised there and in Canada and whose novel What Storm, What Thunder was released in 2021 in Canada (HarperCollins Canada) and the United States (Tin House).
Teresa Mei Chuc will be participating in VCP SoCal Poets' National Poetry Month online event in April 2022
Cobalt Poets featuring TERESA MEI CHUC on Tuesday, April 19, 2022 at 7:30 p.m. PST on Zoom
Link: https://linktr.ee/Vcp_socal
College of Southern Maryland: Connections Presentation - Wednesday, April 13, 2022 at 9 am PST/ 12 pm EST via zoom. Conversation between poets - American veteran Doug Rawlings and Vietnamese boat refugee Teresa Mei Chuc. https://www.csmd.edu/calendar/2022/04/connections-teresa-mei-chuc.html
MOBAR CAFE, 4884 Huntington Dr. S. Los Angeles, CA 90032. OPEN MIC @ MOBAR FEATURING TERESA MEI CHUC
GoldLeaf Poetry Reading in Maine with Doug Rawlings via zoom on Monday, April 11, 2022 at 7:30 a.m. PST / 10:30 a.m. EST
Saturday, April 2, 2022 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. - A Garden of Verse hosted by The California Botanic Garden. Teresa Mei Chuc will be reading her set at 11:30 a.m. Register on zoom at this link: https://www.calbg.org/event/a-virtual-garden-of-verses-040222
Sunday, March 27, 2022 at 2 p.m., La Palabra Poetry at Avenue 50 Studio, featuring poetry reading by Alicia Viguer-Espert, Teresa Mei Chuc and Cesar Avelar
Thursday, March 24, 2022 - 41st Wildwood Writer's Festival, featuring poetry reading by Annemarie Ni Churreain, Tamara Girardi, Peggy Robles-Alvarado, Geri Mendoza Gutwein and Teresa Mei Chuc. Location: Zoom 1 pm EST / 10 am PST
Saturday, March 19, 2022 from 4 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. - LA River Public Art Project presents Stories, Poems & Songs: Listening in Place at Risho Kosei-kai Buddhist Center of Los Angeles
We're kicking off our 2022 programming with a very special early evening event March 19, 2022 from 4:00–6:30 PM.
Stories, Poems & Songs: Listening in Place
@rissho_kosei_kai_la
Address: 2707 1st St, Los Angeles, CA 90033
The LA River Public Art Project presents an early-evening salon with Tongva culture bearer Tina Calderon, the Regenerative Collective, and readings by Kelly Caballero, Teresa Mei Chuc, A.K. Toney, Rocío Carlos and Rachel Kaminer. Poet, journalist and professor @mikethepoetla will be our host and moderator for the evening.
Special screening of LARPAP’s 2021 Lewis MacAdams Prize video by award-winning director Rodrigo Ribera d’Ebre will follow.
Join us afterwards for small bites and conversation and to meet our new executive director, artist Jenna Didier. The Book Store will be open and books by presenting writers will be available for purchase. We hope to see you there!
Stories, Poems & Songs: Listening in Place
@rissho_kosei_kai_la
Address: 2707 1st St, Los Angeles, CA 90033
The LA River Public Art Project presents an early-evening salon with Tongva culture bearer Tina Calderon, the Regenerative Collective, and readings by Kelly Caballero, Teresa Mei Chuc, A.K. Toney, Rocío Carlos and Rachel Kaminer. Poet, journalist and professor @mikethepoetla will be our host and moderator for the evening.
Special screening of LARPAP’s 2021 Lewis MacAdams Prize video by award-winning director Rodrigo Ribera d’Ebre will follow.
Join us afterwards for small bites and conversation and to meet our new executive director, artist Jenna Didier. The Book Store will be open and books by presenting writers will be available for purchase. We hope to see you there!
45th Annual Writers Week at University of California Riverside on February 12, 2022 at 3 p.m. online.
Pasadena Public Central Library - Pasadena Rose Poets - Black History Month Zoom Reading 2022
Monday, February 7, 2022 at 5 p.m.
www.Poetry.LA Teresa Mei Chuc will be in conversation with Mariano Zaro on January 8, 2022 as part of the www.Poetry.LA Interview Series. Interview release forthcoming!
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Unfolding Identity: Finding Poetry in the Naming of Self
Saturday, May 29 2021 6pm- 8pm via Zoom
Join Rachel Kann for this prompt-driven poetry journey into memory, emotions and identity in service of creating rich, textured, real experiences in your writing. We will embark on a guided writing exercise using the naming of our multiplicity of selves as our inspiration. A gentle and generative experience for all. Ages 10 and up.
Poet/workshop facilitator Rachel Kann taught Teresa's poem, "Names," during her workshop. Teresa joined the workshop as a guest to read her poems, "Names" and "accents."
Saturday, May 29 2021 6pm- 8pm via Zoom
Join Rachel Kann for this prompt-driven poetry journey into memory, emotions and identity in service of creating rich, textured, real experiences in your writing. We will embark on a guided writing exercise using the naming of our multiplicity of selves as our inspiration. A gentle and generative experience for all. Ages 10 and up.
Poet/workshop facilitator Rachel Kann taught Teresa's poem, "Names," during her workshop. Teresa joined the workshop as a guest to read her poems, "Names" and "accents."
Skylight Books podcasts with XLA Poets, Wednesday, May 12, 2021 at 11 a.m.
http://skylightbooks.podbean.com/
https://www.skylightbooks.com/podcasts
Monday, May 31, 2021 at 2 p.m. EST Memorial Day: Remembering All Whose Lives Were Taken by War. New York City Veterans for Peace 2021 Memorial Day Commemoration. Honored to be reading one of my poems as part of the Memorial Day Commemoration for all the war dead.
What would Memorial Day look like if we commemorated all the victims of war, and not just the military fallen from our own country? What would it be like to honor all the dead and acknowledge all the destruction wrought around the world by U.S. military actions?
Join us to explore this theme, as we pair Americans, mostly military veterans, with speakers who have been on the receiving end of U.S. military aggression.
Cheyenne Arapaho Nation: Larry Bringing Good
Afghanistan: Nematullah Ahangosh, Basir Bita, Kathy Kelly, Danny Sjursen
Iraq: Matthew Hoh, Lubna Mousa
Vietnam: Peggy Akers, Teresa Mei Chuc, Doug Rawlings
Japan: Susan Schnall, Kiyoko Takei, Masashi Takei
Okinawa: Ken Mayers, Teiko Yohana Tursi
Korea: Soobok Kim, Stan Levin, Georgia Wever
Palestine: Afaf Alnajjar, Miko Peled
Closing: Leah Bolger, Rory Fanning
Moderator: Susan Schnall
Music: Anthony Donovan
What would Memorial Day look like if we commemorated all the victims of war, and not just the military fallen from our own country? What would it be like to honor all the dead and acknowledge all the destruction wrought around the world by U.S. military actions?
Join us to explore this theme, as we pair Americans, mostly military veterans, with speakers who have been on the receiving end of U.S. military aggression.
Cheyenne Arapaho Nation: Larry Bringing Good
Afghanistan: Nematullah Ahangosh, Basir Bita, Kathy Kelly, Danny Sjursen
Iraq: Matthew Hoh, Lubna Mousa
Vietnam: Peggy Akers, Teresa Mei Chuc, Doug Rawlings
Japan: Susan Schnall, Kiyoko Takei, Masashi Takei
Okinawa: Ken Mayers, Teiko Yohana Tursi
Korea: Soobok Kim, Stan Levin, Georgia Wever
Palestine: Afaf Alnajjar, Miko Peled
Closing: Leah Bolger, Rory Fanning
Moderator: Susan Schnall
Music: Anthony Donovan
Tickets on Eventbrite for The Los Angeles Review of Books presents XLA POETS on 8 May at 7:30 p.m.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-los-angeles-review-of-books-presents-xla-poets-tickets-152790429287
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-los-angeles-review-of-books-presents-xla-poets-tickets-152790429287
I’ll be co-hosting this poetry reading and conversation with Hazel Clayton whom I worked closely with as co-Poet Laureate of Altadena for two years (2018 to 2020) and whom I’ve known for many more years as poet and sister. We both recognize the importance of this event and the gathering of these black and Asian poets in our community with whom we’ve been in solidarity with for many years already as we have built and continue to build a better world alongside each other. There are many more black and Asian poets I wish we could have included in the reading because we have been laying these foundations in our communities together over the years but we were limited due to time. Maybe we will have a Part 2 in the near future to add more poets. Please join us for this reading & conversation! Date: Thursday, April 29, 2021 at 7 p.m. Zoom ID: 860 1770 7747
Teresa Mei Chuc will be participating in LitFest Pasadena 2021 and sharing her poetry virtually as part of the Pasadena Rose Poets.
Teresa reads her poems, "Agent Blue" and "Photosynthesis," beginning at 3:50:46 in the video of the virtual event.
https://www.facebook.com/LitFestPasadena/videos/467780937646578/
http://litfestpasadena.org/schedule/
Teresa reads her poems, "Agent Blue" and "Photosynthesis," beginning at 3:50:46 in the video of the virtual event.
https://www.facebook.com/LitFestPasadena/videos/467780937646578/
http://litfestpasadena.org/schedule/
April 17 @ 6:00 p.m. Come to virtual Tia Chucha’s for an event hosted by poetry hero Luis A. Rodríguez. With Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson.
XLA POETS (Ed. Linda Ravenswood) is a new collection from Hinchas Press. It features the work of 10 Los Angeles BIPOC, LGBTQA+ women and womyn identifying poets writing about the city we love/hate/can’t live without.
Los Angeles Poet Laureate Luis Rodríguez calls XLA POETS
‘harmonies within harmonies’. Los Angeles Review of Books founder Tom Lutz says ‘XLA POETS is a foundational text’ in new literature.
Please join us for the second stop in our series of online launches across the United States to joyously and widely share XLA POETS.
Confirmed for this collaborative event with our friends at Tia Chucha’s are Lynne Thompson, Rachel Kann, Viva Padilla, Allison Hedge Coke, Shonda Buchanan, Luivette Resto, Teresa Mei Chuc, Chelsea Rector, and Linda Ravenswood.
Tia Chucha’s has supported the work of the writers in XLA POETS by publishing our writers, featuring our authors at live and online readings, and spotlighting our poets at TiaChucha.com
We are excited to collaborate on this project to promote the work of California writers, as Tia Chucha’s has done for arts makers for decades! https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83083881851?pwd=bng2R2oyR0hqNUd6WS80d21FMVVKUT09
ABOUT THE BOOK
Preorder at: https://www.hinchaspress.com/x-la-poets-presale
Hinchas Press: www.Hinchaspress.com
Publisher: Yago Cura
Art Design: Autumn Anglin
The writers of XLA are — current Poet Laureate of Los Angeles Lynne Thompson, writer and Kohenet Rachel Kann, poet and philosopher Chelsea Rector, writer and educator Luivette Resto, poet and editor Shonda Buchanan, Poet Laureate Teresa Mei Chuc, celebrated poet and NDN culture worker Allison Hedge Coke, Armenian diasporic poet and teacher Armine Iknadossian, poet Viva Padilla, and poet and performance artist Linda Ravenswood.
XLA POETS (Ed. Linda Ravenswood) is a new collection from Hinchas Press. It features the work of 10 Los Angeles BIPOC, LGBTQA+ women and womyn identifying poets writing about the city we love/hate/can’t live without.
Los Angeles Poet Laureate Luis Rodríguez calls XLA POETS
‘harmonies within harmonies’. Los Angeles Review of Books founder Tom Lutz says ‘XLA POETS is a foundational text’ in new literature.
Please join us for the second stop in our series of online launches across the United States to joyously and widely share XLA POETS.
Confirmed for this collaborative event with our friends at Tia Chucha’s are Lynne Thompson, Rachel Kann, Viva Padilla, Allison Hedge Coke, Shonda Buchanan, Luivette Resto, Teresa Mei Chuc, Chelsea Rector, and Linda Ravenswood.
Tia Chucha’s has supported the work of the writers in XLA POETS by publishing our writers, featuring our authors at live and online readings, and spotlighting our poets at TiaChucha.com
We are excited to collaborate on this project to promote the work of California writers, as Tia Chucha’s has done for arts makers for decades! https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83083881851?pwd=bng2R2oyR0hqNUd6WS80d21FMVVKUT09
ABOUT THE BOOK
Preorder at: https://www.hinchaspress.com/x-la-poets-presale
Hinchas Press: www.Hinchaspress.com
Publisher: Yago Cura
Art Design: Autumn Anglin
The writers of XLA are — current Poet Laureate of Los Angeles Lynne Thompson, writer and Kohenet Rachel Kann, poet and philosopher Chelsea Rector, writer and educator Luivette Resto, poet and editor Shonda Buchanan, Poet Laureate Teresa Mei Chuc, celebrated poet and NDN culture worker Allison Hedge Coke, Armenian diasporic poet and teacher Armine Iknadossian, poet Viva Padilla, and poet and performance artist Linda Ravenswood.
Get your tickets for our first reading at The Poetry Society of New York to launch XLA POETS from Hinchas Press. April 16, 2021 @6:00 p.m. pdt
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/psny-x-xla-poets-registration-149553391219
I'll be participating in the upcoming readings for X LA Poets Anthology edited by Linda Ravenswood (Hinchas Press, 2021):
Friday, April 16, 2021 at 6 p.m. - a virtual reading and book launch. The Poetry Society of New York's presentation of X LA Poets Anthology.
Saturday, April 17, 2021 at 6 p.m. - Tia Chucha's Cultural Center's presentation of X LA Poets Anthology
Sunday, April 25, 2021 at 8 p.m. - Skylight Books Podcast
Saturday, May 8, 2021 at 7:30 p.m. - The Los Angeles Review of Books
A BookSwell literary reading and fundraiser for Stop AAPI Hate
Join us to hear four poets from different backgrounds who are concerned with issues of social justice. Lisbeth Coiman, Deborah J. Hunter, Teresa Mei Chuc, and Leonora Simonovis will share their poems of resistance to stand up to racism, dictators, and the machinery of war itself.
This online event, produced by Lisbeth Coiman in collaboration with Bookswell, is free to attend via Zoom and YouTube. All proceeds from pay-what-you-will ticketed donations will go to Stop AAPI Hate.
About the Poets
Lisbeth Coiman is an emerging, bilingual writer who has wandered the immigration path from Venezuela to Canada, to the US. In her self-published memoir, I Asked the Blue Heron, Coiman explores the intersection between immigration and mental health. She is a bilingual writer and adult educator living in Los Angeles and her work has been published in Acentos Review, Entropy,Lady/Liberty/Lit, Hip Mama Magazine, Rabid Oaks, Cultural Weekly, and elsewhere online, and most recently in print in the Altadena Literary Review, and Accolades: a Women Who Submit Anthology. She featured in the 2015 Listen to Your Mother Show with her piece, The Violin. She lives in LA where she works and dances salsa and teaches adult ESL for the LAUSD district.
Deborah J. Hunter is a Tulsa poet, spoken word artist, essayist, actor, teaching artist, workshop facilitator and social justice activist. She received a Greenwood Art Project grant to stage her original play, Porches, during the Centennial observance of the 1921 Black Wall Street Massacre. She was presented a 2018 Woman of the Year Pinnacle Award, the 2000 Jingle Feldman Artist Award, and was a 2013 Oklahoma Poet Laureate finalist. Although her poetry has been published in literary journals and anthologies she is best known for her voice and delivery style. Hunter has been an outspoken advocate on issues related to homelessness and mental illness for more than twenty years.
Teresa Mei Chuc, author of three collections of poetry, Red Thread (Fithian Press, 2012), Keeper of the Winds (FootHills Publishing, 2014) and Invisible Light (Many Voices Press, 2018), was born in Saigon, Viet Nam and immigrated to the U.S. under political asylum as refugees of war with her mother and brother shortly after the American war in Viet Nam while her father remained in a Vietcong "reeducation" prison camp for nine years. Since the age of two, Teresa grew up in the Tongva village of Hahamongna (Pasadena, California) where she still lives and loves. Teresa is a graduate of the Masters in Fine Arts in Creative Writing program (Poetry) at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont and teaches literature and writing at a public high school in Los Angeles.
Leonora Simonovis is a Venezuelan poet and VONA alum who currently lives in San Diego, CA. She teaches literature and creative writing in Spanish at the University of San Diego, has an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University, Los Angeles, and is a contributing editor for Drizzle Review. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming from Gargoyle Magazine, Diode Poetry Journal, The Rumpus, Arkansas International, Poets Reading The News, Inverted Syntax, and Tinderbox Poetry Journal, among others.
Join us to hear four poets from different backgrounds who are concerned with issues of social justice. Lisbeth Coiman, Deborah J. Hunter, Teresa Mei Chuc, and Leonora Simonovis will share their poems of resistance to stand up to racism, dictators, and the machinery of war itself.
This online event, produced by Lisbeth Coiman in collaboration with Bookswell, is free to attend via Zoom and YouTube. All proceeds from pay-what-you-will ticketed donations will go to Stop AAPI Hate.
About the Poets
Lisbeth Coiman is an emerging, bilingual writer who has wandered the immigration path from Venezuela to Canada, to the US. In her self-published memoir, I Asked the Blue Heron, Coiman explores the intersection between immigration and mental health. She is a bilingual writer and adult educator living in Los Angeles and her work has been published in Acentos Review, Entropy,Lady/Liberty/Lit, Hip Mama Magazine, Rabid Oaks, Cultural Weekly, and elsewhere online, and most recently in print in the Altadena Literary Review, and Accolades: a Women Who Submit Anthology. She featured in the 2015 Listen to Your Mother Show with her piece, The Violin. She lives in LA where she works and dances salsa and teaches adult ESL for the LAUSD district.
Deborah J. Hunter is a Tulsa poet, spoken word artist, essayist, actor, teaching artist, workshop facilitator and social justice activist. She received a Greenwood Art Project grant to stage her original play, Porches, during the Centennial observance of the 1921 Black Wall Street Massacre. She was presented a 2018 Woman of the Year Pinnacle Award, the 2000 Jingle Feldman Artist Award, and was a 2013 Oklahoma Poet Laureate finalist. Although her poetry has been published in literary journals and anthologies she is best known for her voice and delivery style. Hunter has been an outspoken advocate on issues related to homelessness and mental illness for more than twenty years.
Teresa Mei Chuc, author of three collections of poetry, Red Thread (Fithian Press, 2012), Keeper of the Winds (FootHills Publishing, 2014) and Invisible Light (Many Voices Press, 2018), was born in Saigon, Viet Nam and immigrated to the U.S. under political asylum as refugees of war with her mother and brother shortly after the American war in Viet Nam while her father remained in a Vietcong "reeducation" prison camp for nine years. Since the age of two, Teresa grew up in the Tongva village of Hahamongna (Pasadena, California) where she still lives and loves. Teresa is a graduate of the Masters in Fine Arts in Creative Writing program (Poetry) at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont and teaches literature and writing at a public high school in Los Angeles.
Leonora Simonovis is a Venezuelan poet and VONA alum who currently lives in San Diego, CA. She teaches literature and creative writing in Spanish at the University of San Diego, has an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University, Los Angeles, and is a contributing editor for Drizzle Review. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming from Gargoyle Magazine, Diode Poetry Journal, The Rumpus, Arkansas International, Poets Reading The News, Inverted Syntax, and Tinderbox Poetry Journal, among others.
Celebrating National Poetry Month. Host, "Poetry in Bloom," Pasadena Rose Poets
Celebrating National Poetry Month. Host, "Poetry in Bloom," Pasadena Rose Poets, Southern California Poets by Bonita Museum & Cultural Center, Wednesday, April 14, 2021, 6:00-8:00 p.m. PRP: Teresa Mei Chuc, Kate Gale, Hazel Clayton Harrison, Gerda Govine Ituarte, Shahé Mankerian, Toni Mosley, Carla Sameth & Annette Wong, plus Guest Poets Lynne Thompson, Poet Laureate, City of Los Angeles; and Jessica Abughattas, Poet Laureate, Altadena, Los Angeles County. Join us for a time to listen, enjoy and breathe deeply. This is a "free" event.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-in-bloom-southern-california-poets-tickets-146687525337?utm-medium=discovery&utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&aff=escb&utm-source=cp&utm-term=listing&fbclid=IwAR2EKC8jiImpiSyLen_JbXHOljbJqRueh_ac4RH-T1iBSX3MhEKssHSA0JE
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Teresa is one of the featured readers for a Virtual Garden of Verses. A nature-themed poetry reading. Teresa will be reading at about 1:30 p.m.
Palace Poetry Group (Syracuse, New York) - Virtual poetry reading at 4 p.m. on April 1, 2021.
Teresa Mei Chuc is one of the readers for a joint reading from the anthologies California Fire and Water and Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California sponsored by Inlandia Institute of Riverside on November 22, 2020.
http://inlandiainstitute.org/ecopoetry-reading-11-22/
Poets & Allies for Resistance, Monday, March 2, 2020 at 7:30 p.m. at My Place Cafe, 2057 N. Los Robles (at Woodbury), Alta/Pasadena, CA 91104. Reading featuring Altadena Poets Laureate Hazel Clayton Harrison and Teresa Mei Chuc.
Flintridge Bookstore & Coffeehouse, Small Business Saturday Celebration. Poetry Reading: Altadena Poetry Review 2019, Saturday, November 20, 2019 at 3:30 PM, a reading with editors Teresa Mei Chuc & Hazel Clayton Harrison; & other contributors to the anthology.
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This fall on the campus of Woodbury University in Burbank—“The First Annual Page and Stage Conference: Bringing Together the Publishing Communities of Los Angeles” to be held on October 25, 2019.
https://www.moriaonline.com/program-page-and-stage-conference
¨On Friday, October 25, 2019, MORIA Literary Magazine—the national, online, literary magazine of Woodbury University—together with the Writing Department and the College of Liberal Arts are hosting a professional conference on the Woodbury campus in Burbank, which will gather representatives of the various literary magazines, journals, presses, publishing houses, and reading series in the greater Los Angeles area for one day of panels, workshops, book displays, and conversation. Our Keynote Speaker will be noted poet and essayist, Dana Gioia, former head of the National Endowment of the Arts and, more recently, the California State Poet Laureate.¨
Teresa Mei Chuc, founder and editor-in-chief of Shabda Press, will be on a panel of publishers to discuss the following topic:
Poet Claudia Rankine has written recently about the “white imaginary”—which is to say, a non-specific category of “whiteness” that erases racial identifiers and instead defines “white” as a catch-all term embedded in white supremacism (invested in the “I don’t see color” defense). Working with this concept, poet Camille Rankine rejects calls for racial unity and for empathy—long the hallmarks of white ally-ship—as weapons of whiteness and tools of the colonizer. Instead, she advocates for a kind of radical listening to “otherness”:
I reach toward a sense of comprehension, but I cannot fully arrive at it. I cannot contain this knowledge because it isn’t mine to hold. What I come to understand is that I will never know what it’s like, not really. What I feel is not what the other feels—what I feel is the gulf between what I know and what they know. It can be a devastating chasm of a feeling. What if, instead of empathy, it is this sort of understanding that we seek? What if, instead of attempting to step into the place of an other, I step to face them, feeling the distance that separates their life from mine, ready to heed the words they offer into the space between us? (Camille Rankine,“The Known Unknown: Persona, Empathy, and the Limits of the Imagination,”Poetry Foundation Blog, April 29, 2019).
How do publishers and curators of words respond to what is “other” than the dominant culture—to racial differences, to marginalized sexual orientations, to class and gender differences—in literary content they are entrusted with? how do we package and publicize this difference? if we are editors and curators of color, how do we envision our role within these various communities? if we are white, cis-gendered editors and curators, how do we listen to authors of color or to LGBTQA+ authors when they approach us with concerns about our handling of this difference? What is our role as responsible stewards of diverse content(s) in literary culture?
https://www.moriaonline.com/program-page-and-stage-conference
¨On Friday, October 25, 2019, MORIA Literary Magazine—the national, online, literary magazine of Woodbury University—together with the Writing Department and the College of Liberal Arts are hosting a professional conference on the Woodbury campus in Burbank, which will gather representatives of the various literary magazines, journals, presses, publishing houses, and reading series in the greater Los Angeles area for one day of panels, workshops, book displays, and conversation. Our Keynote Speaker will be noted poet and essayist, Dana Gioia, former head of the National Endowment of the Arts and, more recently, the California State Poet Laureate.¨
Teresa Mei Chuc, founder and editor-in-chief of Shabda Press, will be on a panel of publishers to discuss the following topic:
Poet Claudia Rankine has written recently about the “white imaginary”—which is to say, a non-specific category of “whiteness” that erases racial identifiers and instead defines “white” as a catch-all term embedded in white supremacism (invested in the “I don’t see color” defense). Working with this concept, poet Camille Rankine rejects calls for racial unity and for empathy—long the hallmarks of white ally-ship—as weapons of whiteness and tools of the colonizer. Instead, she advocates for a kind of radical listening to “otherness”:
I reach toward a sense of comprehension, but I cannot fully arrive at it. I cannot contain this knowledge because it isn’t mine to hold. What I come to understand is that I will never know what it’s like, not really. What I feel is not what the other feels—what I feel is the gulf between what I know and what they know. It can be a devastating chasm of a feeling. What if, instead of empathy, it is this sort of understanding that we seek? What if, instead of attempting to step into the place of an other, I step to face them, feeling the distance that separates their life from mine, ready to heed the words they offer into the space between us? (Camille Rankine,“The Known Unknown: Persona, Empathy, and the Limits of the Imagination,”Poetry Foundation Blog, April 29, 2019).
How do publishers and curators of words respond to what is “other” than the dominant culture—to racial differences, to marginalized sexual orientations, to class and gender differences—in literary content they are entrusted with? how do we package and publicize this difference? if we are editors and curators of color, how do we envision our role within these various communities? if we are white, cis-gendered editors and curators, how do we listen to authors of color or to LGBTQA+ authors when they approach us with concerns about our handling of this difference? What is our role as responsible stewards of diverse content(s) in literary culture?
REFLECTIONS/REFRACTIONS - Ten literary artists share their work inspired by a still or moving image from AT FIRST LIGHT: THE DAWNING OF ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICA in the upstairs galleries of the Japanese American National Museum. The literary works will be performed on Thursday, September 19, 2019 at 7 p.m. Location: Tateuchi Democracy Forum, 111 North Central Avenue, Los Angeles, Little Tokyo. Admission: Free to the public. Teresa will be reading her poem, ¨On the other side of the ocean.¨ http://www.janm.org/exhibits/at-first-light/events/
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The Stand, 36 S El Molino Ave, Pasadena, CA 91101, Saturday, May 18, 2019 from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Poet Laureate Panel at Pasadena LitFest hosted by Red Hen Press. Teresa will be reading her poetry and speaking on what it means to be a poet laureate along with co- Altadena Poet Laureate Hazel Clayton Harrison and several Southland Poets Laureate, Charles Flowers (West Hollywood Poet Laureate), John Brantingham (Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park Poet Laureate) and Ron Koertge (South Pasadena Poet Laureate). We will discuss the duties of our positions, and what we're doing to help spread literature in our respective areas.
Poetry & Cookies Celebration: The Altadena Poetry Review 2019 Anthology Release and Reading, Sunday, April 28, 2019 from 1 to 4 p.m. The Altadena Poetry Review 2019 is edited by Teresa Mei Chuc (editor-in-chief), Hazel Clayton Harrison (editor) and an editorial board.
A Garden of Verses, Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, Saturday, April 6, 2019. Teresa Mei Chuc will be reading at 2 p.m. https://www.rsabg.org/events-programs/events
LA County Poets Station: Johnson’s Oval
10-10:30: Marcyn Del Clements
10:30-11: John R. Williamson
11-11:30: Cindy Rinne
11:30-12: Ralph Carlson
12-12:30: Dale Schafer
12:30-1: Jerry Garcia
1-1:30: Cathy Henley-Erickson
1:30-2: Elizabeth Iannaci
2:-2:30: Teresa Mei Chuc
2:30-3: Michael Creagan
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Vice Mayor Kennedy's Annual Holiday Celebration, Sunday, December 2, 2018 from 3:30 p.m.-8:00 p.m. at the Pasadena Central Library, 285 E. Walnut Street, Pasadena, California. Pasadena Rose Poets were invited to be an integral part of this event to read and enjoy the festivities from 4:45 p.m.-7:45 p.m. Teresa Mei Chuc, a Pasadena Rose Poet and Altadena Poet Laureate (Editor-in-Chief), will be reading her poetry from 6:40 p.m. - 7:05 p.m.
Rishho Kosei-kai Buddhist Center of Los Angeles, 2707 E 1st St, Los Angeles, CA 90033, Saturday, November 3, 2018 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Book release reading and party for Invisible Light by Teresa Mei Chuc
A Garden of Verses - Saturday, April 6, 2019, Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Gardens, Claremont
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A Garden of Verses: Poetry Day in the Garden - April 7, 2018
Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Gardens, Claremont, California, "A Garden of Verse," Saturday, April 7, 2018. Teresa Mei Chuc will be reading at 2 p.m. Theme: "Gardens, environment, nature or Earth." http://www.rsabg.org/garden-events/1016-poetry-day |
A GARDEN OF VERSES 2018 Station Schedule
(Who Reads When)
Pasadena Poets:
Captains: Cathie Sandstrom & Mary Fitzpatrick
Readers: “Round Robin”, a panel of poets reading in sequence of each other.
4th Sundays (Claremont Library):
Captain: Karen Greenbaum-maya
Readers: Lucia Galloway, Frances McConnell, Genevieve Kaplan, Karen Greenbaum Maya,
Southern California Haiku Study Group:
Captain: Debbie Kolodji
LA County Poets:
Captain: Marcyn Del Clements
10:00=Marcyn Del Clements
10:30=Dale Schafer
11:00=Ralph Carlson
11:30=Cathy Henley Erickson
12:00=Michael Creagan
12:30=Elizabeth Iannaci
01:00=Jerry Garcia
01:30=Kathleen Tyler
02:00=Teresa Mei Chuc
02:30=Brendan Constantine
(Who Reads When)
Pasadena Poets:
Captains: Cathie Sandstrom & Mary Fitzpatrick
Readers: “Round Robin”, a panel of poets reading in sequence of each other.
4th Sundays (Claremont Library):
Captain: Karen Greenbaum-maya
Readers: Lucia Galloway, Frances McConnell, Genevieve Kaplan, Karen Greenbaum Maya,
Southern California Haiku Study Group:
Captain: Debbie Kolodji
LA County Poets:
Captain: Marcyn Del Clements
10:00=Marcyn Del Clements
10:30=Dale Schafer
11:00=Ralph Carlson
11:30=Cathy Henley Erickson
12:00=Michael Creagan
12:30=Elizabeth Iannaci
01:00=Jerry Garcia
01:30=Kathleen Tyler
02:00=Teresa Mei Chuc
02:30=Brendan Constantine
Pasadena Central Library, March 9, 2018, 6:00 p.m. Pasadena Rose Poets was invited by the Pasadena Central Library, 285 E. Walnut St., Pasadena, CA 91101, to participate in ART NIGHT with a focus and linkage to Pasadena STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math) Initiative. The mission of STEAM Pasadena is to inspire a sense of wonder for science, art and space exploration. The initiative will promote activities, events and curriculum that will allow their audiences to discover the world and the world of space exploration inspired by the 2018 COSPAR (Committee on Space Research) scientific assembly.
Huntington Botanical Gardens, San Marino, CA, World Family Day, Saturday, December 30, 2017, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Pasadena Rose Poets Reading: Teresa Mei Chuc, Kate Gale, Hazel Clayton Harrison. Teresa will also be dancing hula in ceremony and prayer with her Halau Hula 'o Kawahinealiinohoikeanuenue-'elua.
Pasadena Central Library, 4th floor, Pasadena Rose Poets reading/performance, Thursday, December 7, 2017 from 6:30 p.m.-8: 30 p.m. Teresa Mei Chuc will be reading with other Pasadena Rose Poets.
Pasadena City Hall. Teresa Mei Chuc, as a Pasadena Rose Poet, reads two poems about houselessness during the Pasadena City Council meeting on Monday, November 13, 2017. https://coloradoboulevard.net/pacific-oaks-polytechnic-and-land-use/
Pasadena Rose Poets Reading Series in the Council Chambers at Pasadena City Hall, room S249, second floor. Monday, August 21, 2017 at 6 p.m. - Teresa Mei Chuc.
The Far East Lounge in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, CA, Saturday, May 6, 2017, 3 to 5 p.m. Anti-War Themed Poetry Reading featuring Amy Uyematsu and Teresa Mei Chuc. http://fel.ltsc.org/en/
Pasadena Rose Poets Celebrates National Poetry Month, Pasadena Main Public Library, Thursday, April 27, 2017, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Readings/Stories by Marcia Arrieta, Teresa Mei Chuc, Mel Donalson, Hazel Clayton Harrison, and Gerda Govine Ituarte (Producer/Curator). Honoring Pasadena Trailblazer Poets Rae Ballard, Don Kingfisher Campbell, Beverly LaFontaine and Thelma T. Reyna. Pasadena-based publishers of poetry books which includes Golden Foothills Press, Indefinite Space Poetry/Art Journal, Red Hen Press, Shabda Press, San Gabriel Poetry Quarterly and Spectrum Journal. Opportunity to buy books.
http://ww5.cityofpasadena.net/library/2017/04/11/celebrate-poetry/
Los Angeles Trade Tech College, Mariposa Hall - Library, Thursday, April 20, 2017, Teresa Mei Chuc will be reading at LA Trade Tech College for Poetry Month. http://www.lattc.edu/
Saint Mary's College of Maryland, 47645 College Drive St. Mary's City, MD, 20686-3001. "The Decade the Rainforest Died: A Poetry Reading on War and Its Consequences" featuring poet Teresa Mei Chuc at St. Mary's College of Maryland on Wednesday, April 12, 2017. http://www.smcm.edu/
The Writer's Center, 4508 Walsh Street, Bethesda, MD 20815, Teresa Mei Chuc will read her poetry at The Writer's Center on Sunday, April 9, 2017 at 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
https://www.writer.org/program/calendar?cid=1&ceid=2313&cerid=0&cdt=4%2f9%2f2017
The Writer's Center, 4508 Walsh Street, Bethesda, MD 20815, Teresa Mei Chuc will read her poetry at The Writer's Center on Sunday, April 9, 2017 at 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
https://www.writer.org/program/calendar?cid=1&ceid=2313&cerid=0&cdt=4%2f9%2f2017
Goddard College Alumni Gathering, Los Angeles, CA Regional. Featured alumni readings by Teresa Mei Chuc, poet and founder of Shabda Press and Margaret Grundstein author of Naked in the Woods. Sunday, March 12, 2017 from 3:00pm - 5:00pm at Margaret Grundstein's.
The Pasadena Rose Poets, under the auspices of COFAC, will be part of the City of Pasadena ArtNight hosted by the Pasadena Museum of California Art, 490 E. Union Street, Friday, March 10, 2017 from 6:00 p.m.-10:00. The Pasadena Rose Poets who will read/perform are Marcia Arrieta, Teresa Mei Chuc, Hazel Harrison Clayton, Kate Gale, Shahe Mankerian, Carla Sameth, and Gerda Govine. Teresa Mei Chuc will be reading at 6 p.m.
Allendale Branch Library, Pasadena, CA, Nuclear Impact: Broken Atoms in Our Hands Anthology Launch, Saturday, March 4, 2017 at 2 p.m.
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Pintoresca Library,1355 N Raymond Ave, Pasadena, CA 91103, Saturday, February 25, 2017 from 1 to 4 p.m. Public Conversation/Poetry Reading with Gerda Govine, Jessica Ceballos and Teresa Mei Chuc.
Sierra Madre Public Library, 440 W Sierra Madre Blvd, Sierra Madre, CA 91024, Thursday, February 16, 2017 at 7 pm. Teresa Mei Chuc, along with several other poets of diverse backgrounds, will be on a panel on poetry titled "Metaphor or Misappropriation?".
Moderator and panelist: James Maverick ( James Evert Jones) Expressions Poetry Series
Panel: Adolfo Guzman-Lopez - KPCC Public Radio and Taco Shop Poets Founder
Rick Lupert - Poetry Super Highway
Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo - Co-founding member of Women Who Submit
Teresa Mei Chuc - Founder, Editor-in-Chief Shabda Press
The panel on poetry, "Metaphor or Misappropriation?" will explore what stories and what points of view are being published in the realm of poetry. When/or if it is it OK for a poet to write in the voice of someone of another race or gender? Does the intimate, feelings-based, musicality of poetry present a unique case when we evaluate authenticity of voice? What needs to be done to insure that all creative voices are heard and all stories honored in poetry?
http://sierramadreplayhouse.org/
Poetry & Diversity Reading and Panel Discussion Event Program (pdf)
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Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel, 999 9th St NW, Washington, DC 20001, Meeting Room #6 - Shabda Press' Nuclear Impact: Broken Atoms in Our Hands Anthology Pre-publication Reading, Friday, February 10, 2017 at 7 p.m. Readers include Mariko Kitakubo, Lucille Lang Day, Susan Deer Cloud, Yun Wang, Joseph Hess, Lisa Stice, Britt Melewski, Michael McLane, Kath Abela Wilson, Pamela Uschuk, William Pitt Root, Drew Dillhunt, Deborah P Kolodji.
CutThroat Journal's Truth To Power Anthology off-site reading at AWP, Feb. 10, 2017 from 2-4 p.m. at 6th Street Synagogue, Washington, DC. Teresa, along with other contributors, will be reading.
Goddard College Alumni Event & Reading, Washington, D.C., Thursday, February 9, 2017 at 6 - 9 p.m., Fireview Room, Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel. Susan Deer Cloud, Drew Dillhunt and Teresa Mei Chuc will be reading their poetry.
Altadena Library Community Room, Friday, February 3, 2017 from 6:30-8:30 pm, Golden Foothills Press' Pushcart Prize Nominees Honoring Event
Annenberg Community Beach House in Santa Monica, CA - “Poetry & the Art of Listening” on Tuesday, January 31, 2017 at 6:30pm. Writer-in-residence, poet Dinah Berland will be reading with poets Teresa Mei Chuc, Billy Burgos, and Daniel Romo. Following the reading, there will be a discussion on the role of poetry in sparking empathy across difference. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-the-art-of-listening-w-writer-in-residence-dinah-berland-guests-registration-29334659757
5th Annual Allendale Holiday LitFest & Tree Lighting, Allendale Branch Library, Pasadena, California, Saturday, December 10, 2016 from 4 to 5 p.m. Teresa Mei Chuc, Vinita Khilnani, Pam Ward, A.K. Toney, James Cushing, Luivette Resto, Michael C. Ford, Mike Sonksen and Khadija Anderson are the featured poets at the event.
http://cityofpasadena.net/library/about_the_library/allendale_branch/
http://www.pasadenanow.com/main/allendale-branch-library-presents-fifth-annual-allendale-holiday-literary-festival-and-tree-lighting/
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Writing to Heal: Reading & Panel moderated by Vibiana Aparicio-Chamberlin, Flintridge Bookstore, Sunday November 6, 2016 from 4 to 6 pm. Teresa Mei Chuc, Jawanza Dumisani, Chanel Brenner, Nancy Shiffrin, and Vibiana Aparicio-Chamberlin are readers and speakers on the panel. Theme: "the loss of loved ones." Please click here for pdf flyer
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Book Show Bookstore, 5503 N Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 90042, Sunday, October 16, 2016, from 2:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. Pasadena Rose Poets Teresa Mei Chuc, Hazel Harrison Clayton and Gerda Govine Ituarte will be reading their poetry.
Studio City Public Library, 12511 Moorpark Street, Studio City, CA 91604, Saturday, August 6, 2016 from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Teresa Mei Chuc and R.G. Cantalupo will read their poetry. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/programs/events/detail/90143
http://www.lapl.org/branches/studio-city
NEA Our Town "Poetry Within Reach", Wednesday, August 3, 2016, 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. at the Pasadena Senior Center, 85 E. Holly Street, between Raymond and Arroyo Parkway. Teresa Mei Chuc will be a featured Pasadena Rose Poet at a reading presented by City of Pasadena Cultural Affairs Division and Side Street Project.
Poetry Within Reach Series - Wednesday July 27, August 3, 10 and 17, 2016, at Pasadena Senior Center, 85 E. Holly St., 12 noon-1:00 event funded by NEA "Our Town My Pasadena, Arts, Community Activating Civic Center" grant received by City of Pasadena Cultural Affairs Division and Side Street Project. This event honors and recognizes seasoned and emerging published poets who live/work in Pasadena. The eight poets who will read/perform are Marcia Arrieta, Teresa Mei Chuc, Hazel Harrison Clayton, Mel Donalson, Kate Gale, Shahe Mankerian, Carla Sameth, Victor Vazquez and Gerda Govine as Producer/MC of this "happening." We are the "Pasadena Rose Poets." For additional information go to: www.cityofpasadena.net and www.sidestreet.org/my-Pasadena.
Pasadena Now
http://www.pasadenanow.com/PasadenaEvents/2016/07/18/1468895818
Pasadena Journal
http://pasadenajournal.com/poetry-within-reach-part-ii/
Poetry Within Reach Series - Wednesday July 27, August 3, 10 and 17, 2016, at Pasadena Senior Center, 85 E. Holly St., 12 noon-1:00 event funded by NEA "Our Town My Pasadena, Arts, Community Activating Civic Center" grant received by City of Pasadena Cultural Affairs Division and Side Street Project. This event honors and recognizes seasoned and emerging published poets who live/work in Pasadena. The eight poets who will read/perform are Marcia Arrieta, Teresa Mei Chuc, Hazel Harrison Clayton, Mel Donalson, Kate Gale, Shahe Mankerian, Carla Sameth, Victor Vazquez and Gerda Govine as Producer/MC of this "happening." We are the "Pasadena Rose Poets." For additional information go to: www.cityofpasadena.net and www.sidestreet.org/my-Pasadena.
Pasadena Now
http://www.pasadenanow.com/PasadenaEvents/2016/07/18/1468895818
Pasadena Journal
http://pasadenajournal.com/poetry-within-reach-part-ii/
Pasadena Rose Poets meeting at City Hall courtyard. From left to right: Mel, Carla, Gerda, Teresa, Marcia and Hazel.
The New York City Poetry Festival, Governors Island, New York City, July 31, 2016 from 2 to 3 p.m. at the Algonquin Stage. Coast to Coast Poetry Press Collective will host a reading featuring poets Susan Deer Cloud, Michael Czarnecki, Mariko Kitakubo, Deborah P. Kolodji, Joan I. Siegel, Jennifer Clark, David Giver, Teresa Mei Chuc, Doren Damico, Drew Dillhunt, Emily Johnston, Kathabela & Rick Wilson, George Wallace. http://newyorkcitypoetryfestival.com/
http://newyorkcitypoetryfestival.com/line-up/
POETS HOUSE in New York City, Coast to Coast Poetry Press Collective - A Poetry Reading from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean at POETS HOUSE in New York / Elizabeth Kray Hall / 10 River Terrace, New York, NY 10282
Saturday, July 30, 2016, 7 to 10 p.m. Featured poets include Susan Deer Cloud, Michael Czarnecki, Heather H. Thomas, Mariko Kitakubo, Deborah P. Kolodji, Joan I. Siegel, Jennifer Clark, David Giver, Teresa Mei Chuc, Drew Dillhunt, Emily Johnston, Doren Damico, R.G. Evans, CX Dillhunt, Kathabela & Rick Wilson, George Wallace, Alan Casline, Alifair Skebe
http://www.poetshouse.org/programs-and-events/other-events/literary-partners-program-presents-coast-coast-poetry-press
Teresa Mei Chuc will read as part of the Live from the CORE Poetry/Performance series at the CORE Winery Tasting Room in old town Orcutt (Santa Maria, California) on Saturday, July 9, 2016 @ 8:00 p.m. http://www.santamariasun.com/art/13754/live-from-the-core-features-traveling-and-local-poets-reading-verse/
Steynberg Gallery located at 1531 Monterey St., San Luis Obispo, California on Sunday, July 3, 2016 at 3:00pm - Featured Poets: Teresa Mei Chuc and Paul Lobo Portugés http://www.steynberggallery.com/
POETRY AT THE STEYNBERG LANGUAGE OF THE SOUL http://www.languageofthesoul.org/steynberg/index.html
Steynberg Gallery located at 1531 Monterey St., San Luis Obispo, California on Sunday, July 3, 2016 at 3:00pm - Featured Poets: Teresa Mei Chuc and Paul Lobo Portugés http://www.steynberggallery.com/
POETRY AT THE STEYNBERG LANGUAGE OF THE SOUL http://www.languageofthesoul.org/steynberg/index.html
Wrightwood Literary Festival 2016 - Teresa Mei Chuc will lead a poetry writing workshop at the Wrightwood Literary Festival on Saturday, June 4, 2016. Teresa will also be reading a few poems at the Rattle Reading Series on Sunday, June 5, 2016 at 11 a.m. in Wrightwood. http://www.wrightwoodlitfest.com/
Workshop Description:
Nature as Metaphor
Nature is a source of inspiration for many writers. How is nature used as a metaphor to express human desires and experience? In this workshop, we will look at examples of poetry that uses nature as a metaphor to express our humanity in microcosm or macrocosm, on a cellular level or on a universal level or somewhere in between. What do we see in ourselves when we look at nature, a dandelion, a mushroom, an oak tree…the mycelium network? Even nature’s colors invoke in us deep emotions. How is the natural consciousness of the Earth connected to our human consciousness? Attendees will write their own poems inspired by the surrounding nature as a metaphor for some aspect of human life and experience, personal or universal.
http://www.wrightwoodlitfest.com/workshops/
The Sidewalk Cafe, April 10, 2016, 2057 N. Los Robles Ave., Pasadena, CA 91104, Renew Vietnam film screening. Teresa Mei Chuc will read a few of her poems on unexploded ordnance before the film screening of Renew Vietnam.
AWP 2016
S239. Inheriting the War Anthology Reading: Poetry and Prose by Descendants of Vietnam Veterans and Refugees
AWP Bookfair Stage, LA Convention Center, Exhibit Hall Level One
Saturday, April 2, 2016
3:00 pm to 4:15 pm
The collective voices in this reading convey the intergenerational inheritance of trauma and the troubling aftermath of war. These writers describe the burden of war that comes into the household, addressing the consequences of exile, relocation, Agent Orange, post-traumatic stress, addiction, and domestic violence, and together illustrate the long-term effects of war, as it does not end on the battlefield.
Reading and discussion by Laren McClung, Cathy Linh Che, Philip Metres, Monica Sok, Nguyen Phan Que Mai, & Teresa Mei Chuc.
Mo' Joe Anthology Poetry Reading - AWP Offsite Reading
Friday, April 1, 2016, 2 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Pasadena Central Library
Donald R. Wright Auditorium
285 E. Walnut St., Pasadena, CA 91101
Reading at the Mo' Joe event at the Pasadena Public Library on April 1, 2-4:30 pm, will be Beatlick publisher Pamela Hirst, FootHills publisher Michael Czarnecki, and Shabda Press publisher Teresa Mei Chuc, as well as Michael C. Ford, Gayle Lauradunn, Adam Francis Cornford, Sandra Mendez Rosenbaum, Jules Nyquist, and John Roche.
https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/schedule_overview_offsite
https://www.facebook.com/events/187525494956191/
AWP 2016
Room 408 B, LA Convention Center, Meeting Room Level
Thursday, March 31, 2016
10:30 am to 11:45 am
R148. The Asian Face of War, Gaining Perspectives from Both Sides: A Look at WWII, Vietnam, and Korea. (Gregory Dunne, Ross Cantalupo, Mong Lan, Kyoko Yoshida, Teresa Mei Chuc) How does literature remain conversant with the history of war in Asia? Why does it remain vital and relevant? Seventy years after WWII, and forty years after the fall of Saigon, writers whose work was published in Kyoto Journal and who write out of an awareness of war gather to address questions of war and literature’s ongoing response to it. Five writers, some based outside the United States, speak to Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese literature in light of history and war.
https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/event_detail/7564
AWP 2016 Offsite Event - Coast to Coast Poetry Press Collective - Poetry Reading on Thursday, March 31, 2016, 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at Pico Union Branch Library, 1030 S. Alvarado Street, Los Angeles, CA 90006
Poetry reading by various poets published by the small presses in the Coast to Coast Poetry Press Collective: FootHills Publishing (Wheeler Hill, New York), Hummingbird Press (Madison, Wisconsin & Seattle, Washington), Many Voices Press (Kalispell, Montana) and Shabda Press (Pasadena, California). Special guest press: Bear Star Press (Chico, California)
Featured readers include:
Shabda Press - Nguyen Phan Que Mai, Seven Dhar, Deborah P. Kolodji
Many Voices Press - Lynne Thompson
Hummingbird Press - CX Dillhunt, Drew Dillhunt reading Emily Johnston's work
FootHills Publishing - Michael Czarnecki, Teresa Mei Chuc
Special guest press: Bear Star - Drew Dillhunt
https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/schedule_overview_offsite
AWP 2016 Offsite Event - Coast to Coast Poetry Press Collective - Poetry Reading on Wednesday, March 30, 2016, 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at Pasadena Central Library, Donald R. Wright Auditorium, 285 E. Walnut St., Pasadena, CA 91101.
Poetry reading by various poets published by the small presses in the Coast to Coast Poetry Press Collective: FootHills Publishing (Wheeler Hill, New York), Hummingbird Press (Madison, Wisconsin & Seattle, Washington), Many Voices Press (Kalispell, Montana) and Shabda Press (Pasadena, California). Special guest press: Bear Star Press (Chico, California)
Featured readers include:
Shabda Press - Nguyen Phan Que Mai, Deborah P. Kolodji
Many Voices Press - Teresa Mei Chuc
Hummingbird Press - CX Dillhunt, Drew Dillhunt reading Emily Johnston's work
FootHills Publishing - Michael Czarnecki, Teresa Mei Chuc
Special guest press: Bear Star - Drew Dillhunt
https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/schedule_overview_offsite
Teresa Mei Chuc's poem, “Love After Fukushima,” is forthcoming in Spectrum 3: LoveLoveLove. She will be reading at the publishing reading on February 20th at 3pm inside the backroom of the Santa Catalina Branch Library on 999 E. Washington Blvd. in Pasadena. http://spectrumpublishing.blogspot.com/
Bolton Hall Museum, 10110 Commerce Avenue, Tujunga, CA 91041, Sunday, January 24, 2016 at 4:30 p.m., Village Poets Readings featuring Teresa Mei Chuc.
Tia Chucha's Centro Cultural & Bookstore, Sylmar, CA, Friday, January 22, 2016 at 8 p.m. - Teresa Mei Chuc will be reading her poetry as a featured reader.
Spectrum 2 Anthology Release Reading, Santa Catalina Branch Public Library, Pasadena, CA, Saturday, December 19, 2015 at 3 p.m.
The Rapp Salo(o)n, 1436 2nd St., Santa Monica, CA 90401. Friday, December 4, 2015 at 8 p.m. FIRST FRIDAYS at THE RAPP SALO(O)N - Poetry reading featuring Cynthia Alessandra Briano and Teresa Mei Chuc with music by Matthew Mars. http://heyevent.com/event/2zyhqmnb742ska/the-last-first-friday-at-the-rapp-saloon-in-2015-presents-cynthia-alessandra-briano-teresa-mei-chuc-music-surprises-tba
https://www.facebook.com/events/457753134407676/
USC Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, California, Sunday, November 1, 2015 at 2 p.m. drawn to the light: 2015 So. Cal. Haiku Anthology launch and reading. Teresa Mei Chuc will read her poems published in the anthology.
http://hapfind.com/event/fb/drawn-to-the-light-2015-so-cal-haiku-anthology_1346285
Storrier Stearns Japanese Garden, Pasadena, CA, October 23, 2015 at 6:30 p.m. Mariko Kitakubo & Teresa Mei Chuc read their poetry in Japanese, Vietnamese and English. (special reading)
Donald R. Wright Auditorium, Pasadena Central Library, Spectrum: An Anthology of Southern California Poets Book Release Reading, Monday, September 28, 2015 at 7 p.m., Teresa Mei Chuc will read her poem, "Agent Blue," published in the anthology.
The Garden Pavilion next to the Castle in Hollywood, CA, Saturday, August 15, 2015, Poetrypalooza. With special appearances by Poet Laureate Dr. Maja Trochimczyk (Village Poets), Chad Sweeney (UC), Lois P. Jones (KPFK FM)/Alice Pero (Moonday), Teresa Mei Chuc (Shabda), Jessica Wilson (L.A. Poet Society), Jason Brain (Soapbox), V. Kali (World Stage), Rose Alonso (Tia Chucha's, home of L.A. Poet Laureate Luis J. Rodriguez), Elena Secota (Rapp Saloon), Don Kingfisher Campbell, Elmast Kozloyan, RD Armstrong (Lummox), Rick Lupert (Poetry Superhighway), Vibrations (Inglewood), ZzyZx WriterZ, Dori Marler James Maverick (Expressions), Poets in Distress, L.A. Word Salon, Ideas Aubrey (Urban Social House), Red Door (Caltech), Lisa'Anne G. Ivey, Nathan Earl Rose, David Gale (Lamp Light), Kaylie Guild, Robert Hollar, readings of Altadena Poet Laureate Dr. Thelma Reyna and Afghan Poetess Laila Re.
Writer Wednesday, Sugar & Cream Cafe, 10710 Burbank Blvd., NoHo, CA 91601, August 5, 2015, 6 to 9 p.m. - Teresa Mei Chuc will be reading her poetry as a featured poet.
East and West Languages and Cultures Center, Dong Tay Cultural Center, June 12, 2015 at 7 p.m., Thư viện – Cafe Đông Tây, Nhà 11A, Trần Quý Kiên, Cầu Giấy, Hà Nội, Viet Nam. Teresa Mei Chuc reads from her poetry collections, Red Thread and Keeper of the Winds, as well as new poems.
2015 San Gabriel Valley Poetry Festival, Saturday, April 18, 2015 at 3:30 p.m., Inside the back room of the Santa Catalina Branch Library on 999 E. Washington Blvd. in Pasadena, CA.
Coast to Coast Poetry Press Collective Reading/Celebration, Friday, April 10, 2015 from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at Common Roots Cafe, 2558 Lyndale Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN, poetry reading by various poets published by FootHills Publishing, Hummingbird Press, Many Voices Press and Shabda Press. Featuring FootHills Publishing's 30-year anniversary poetry reading/celebration and Hummingbird Press' 25-year anniversary poetry reading/celebration. http://commonrootscafe.com/
University of Indianapolis, Kellogg Writers Series, Monday, March 16, 2015 at 7:30 p.m., Schwitzer Student Center Room 010, University of Indianapolis, 1400 E. Hanna Ave. Admission: Free. Teresa Mei Chuc will be reading her poems from Red Thread and also from her new collection of poetry, Keeper of the Winds.
Please click on the links for more information:
http://www.nuvo.net/ArtsBlog/archives/2014/06/26/uindy-announces-most-of-its-arts-season
http://do317.com/events/2015/3/16/poet-teresa-mei-chuc
University of Indianapolis Cultural Calendar 2014-2015
Kellog Writers Series
Teresa Mei Chuc - March 16, 2015 at 7:30 p.m.
Kellog Writers Series
Teresa Mei Chuc - March 16, 2015 at 7:30 p.m.
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Bolton Hall Museum, 10110 Commerce Avenue, Tujunga, CA 91041, Sunday, January 25, 2015, 4:30 to 6:30 p.m., Village Poets Readings - Teresa Mei Chuc and Ross Canton (R.G. Cantalupo) will read their poetry.
http://villagepoets.blogspot.com/2015/01/teresa-mei-chuc-and-ross-canton-feature.html
The Voice, page 7
http://www.voiceofthevillage.org/1-1-15%20Voice%20of%20the%20Village%20-%20January%202015.pdf
The Bridgewater International Poetry Festival, January 15-18, 2015. Bridgewater College, 402 E. College St., Bridgewater, Virginia - Teresa Mei Chuc will be reading her poems at the festival on Saturday, January 17, 2015 at 11 a.m. http://wp.bridgewater.edu/bipf/2015-schedule/
Foothills Poetry Festival, An International Languages Poetry Reading, Sunland-Tujunga Public Library, Saturday, January 10, 2015 from 3:00-5:00 p.m. Poets read in their native language(s) and in English. Teresa Mei Chuc will read her poems in Vietnamese and in English. Hosted by Elsa S. Frausto, Poet Laureate of Sunland-Tujunga 2014-2016. http://www.lapl.org/branches/sunland-tujunga
Levantine Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA, Thursday, December 4, 2014, 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m., Poets on War and People, An Evening of Spoken Word. In conjunction with the new exhibition War and People: Art, Exile and the Middle East, three Los Angeles-based poets and a Middle Eastern American actor read from two recent collections of poetry, Dear Darwish and With Our Eyes Wide Open, that explore the effects of war and exile on people in South Asia, the Middle East and the Americas.
With Our Eyes Wide Open: Poems of the New American Century, focuses on the impact of recent wars on populations around the world especially the U.S. wars in Southeast Asia (Vietnam etc.), Central America, and the Middle East. This international anthology of poetry explores the impact of the United States in wars as well as upon the "nobodies"-outcasts, immigrants, the working class: "They [the poets]...represent an emerging poetic consciousness which is helping to define and shape the imagination and language of the 21st Century." Using a call-and-response pattern, the poems look at the impact of the United States' wars in Korea, Vietnam, Central America, and Iraq, on lives. Vietnamese-American poet Teresa Mei Chuc, and Julia Stein read from their own poems and a Middle Eastern American actor read some of the Middle Eastern poets in the anthology from Turkey, Oman, Egyptian-American, Morocco, Iraq, and Chechnya.
Featured readers: Morani Kornberg-Weiss, Teresa Mei Chuc, Dima Hilal, and Julia Stein. http://www.levantinecenter.org/event/poets-war-and-people-evening-spoken-word
LitCrawl NoHo, North Hollywood, CA, Wednesday, October 22, 2014, 8-8:45pm
Where:
VICIOUS DOGS
5231 Lankershim
North Hollywood, CA
KPFK - Feminist Magazine http://feministmagazine.org/
Listen live on Tuesday Afternoons from 3PM to 4PM on KPFK
"And we'll have a feminist political poetry fest from the new international anthology "With Our Eyes Wide Open: Poems of the New American Century". It describes the impact of the United States in waging wars, as well as the impact on the so-called “nobodies,”—the outcasts, immigrants, and the working class. Teresa Mei Chuc, who was born in Saigon, writes poems that often describe the long-lasting effects of war on the Vietnamese land and people. She'll be joined by Julia Stein whose fifth book of poetry "What Were They Like" describe the lives of women in Iraq and the U.S.
We promise you this won't be a downer! These poems are intense AND life affirming. And so are Julia Stein and Teresa Mei Chuc.
Tuesday, September 9, 2014 with your hosts Ariana Manov, Sese Abejon and Abeni Moreno --THIS is what feminism sounds like!" http://feministmagazine.org/2014/09/fm-sept-9/
Granada Books - Poetry Zone, Santa Barbara, CA, Saturday, August 9, 2014 at 4 p.m.
Featured readers: John Ridland and Teresa Mei Chuc. Teresa Mei Chuc will be reading her poems from her new collection of poetry, Keeper of the Winds. http://www.sbgranadabooks.com/
Pasadena Public Library, Donald R. Wright Auditorium - Red Thread - Poetry Reading and Panel Discussion, Thursday, July 17, 2014 from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Teresa Mei Chuc will speak about the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War, her family’s experience immigrating to the U.S. and read from her book, Red Thread. Teresa Mei Chuc will also be reading from her new collection of poetry, Keeper of the Winds.
See .pdf flyer under "Special Events" on p. 8
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Wake Up and Smell the Poetry, Hopkinton, MA Community News TV (HCAM TV Studios), Saturday, June 21, 2014. Teresa Mei Chuc will be reading her poems from her new collection of poetry, Keeper of the Winds.
http://www.hcam.tv/wakeup
"How We Heal & Transform Ourselves And Society Through Writing":
A Conversation & Workshop with Teresa Mei Chuc
Details about the workshop:
On June 19, 2014 from 6:30-8:30 Teresa Mei Chuc will offer her workshop on poetry and transformation at The Zen Bungalow located at 15 Main Street in Hopkinton, MA. Teresa will speak briefly of her own journey of coming through the dark of her earlier years through the art of poetry and how it led her to grow in her own life perspective, feelings of world compassion and work as an activist for peace and social justice. She will also share her experience and observations of being an editor for a poetry journal and her decision and recent work in starting her own press to further give voice to her story and important words of caring and activism out in the world. The second part of this workshop will consist of offering an exercise to all participants to write about making meaning and achieving growth and transformation from episodes of life and human suffering.
Fact & Fiction Bookstore, Missoula, MT, Teresa Mei Chuc will be reading her poems from Red Thread and also from her new collection of poetry, Keeper of the Winds, on Saturday, June 14, 2014 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
http://www.factandfictionbooks.com/event/teresa-mei-chuc
Santa Catalina Library, Pasadena, CA, Saturday Afternoon Poetry hosted by Don Kingfisher Campbell, Saturday, May 10, 2014 at 3 p.m. In celebration of Mother's Day, Teresa Mei Chuc will be reading particular poems from her collection Red Thread and poems from her forthcoming collection Keeper of the Winds that were dedicated to her sons, her mother and grandmother.
University of Montana - Creative Writing Conference: Thinking Its Presence: Race & Creative Writing, Shakespeare & Co (103 South 3rd St West), Friday, April 11, 2014 from 2:10 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Teresa Mei Chuc will be reading and discussing her poetry from Red Thread and new poems.
http://thinkingitspresenceraceandc2014.sched.org/event/a69c19adb367a601daa3adb515c50c10#.UwkuGEJdVZE
Vietnam War Commemoration Event, College of Southern Maryland, Friday, April 4, 2014, Teresa Mei Chuc will be reading from Red Thread (with panel discussion). http://www.csmd.edu/vietnamwar50th/events.html
A Poetry Reading for Peace and Justice in a Time of War and Discrimination, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, April 1, 2014. Poets Martin Espada, Adrie Kusserow, Bunkong Tuon, Afaa Michael Weaver, and Teresa Mei Chuc will be reading from the anthology With Our Eyes Open: Poems of the New American Century (West End Press, 2014) and their work. Click on this link and click on the "Peace & Justice" button for more info http://www.smith.edu/poetrycenter/New%20Site/Reading%20Page/readings-page-final-plan.html
Poets Martin Espada, Adrie Kusserow, Bunkong Tuon, Afaa Michael Weaver, and Teresa Mei Chuc will read from their work on April 1, 2014, at 7:30pm in Seelye 106. United by a common interest in promoting peace and justice,
they write about the struggles of the world’s outcasts, immigrants, and working classes. They speak for those who are discriminated against and conveniently forgotten as empires clash and wage relentless war.
This event is presented by the Smith College Lecture Committee and co-sponsored by the Poetry Center, the English Department, the American Studies Program, the Five College Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program, and the Five College International Relations Program.
Here is a PDF of the flyer for the Peace and Justice reading:
Poets Martin Espada, Adrie Kusserow, Bunkong Tuon, Afaa Michael Weaver, and Teresa Mei Chuc will read from their work on April 1, 2014, at 7:30pm in Seelye 106. United by a common interest in promoting peace and justice,
they write about the struggles of the world’s outcasts, immigrants, and working classes. They speak for those who are discriminated against and conveniently forgotten as empires clash and wage relentless war.
This event is presented by the Smith College Lecture Committee and co-sponsored by the Poetry Center, the English Department, the American Studies Program, the Five College Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program, and the Five College International Relations Program.
Here is a PDF of the flyer for the Peace and Justice reading:
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| april1pc.pdf |
AWP Bookfair 2014, February 27 to March 1, Washington State Convention Center, 800 Convention Pl, Seattle, WA 98101, Shabda Press will have a booth at the bookfair. Shaba Press' booth is located in the South Hall (booth 510). You can find it on the AWP bookfair floorplan at this link https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/bookfair_exhibitors_list
Poets Cafe - KPFK 90.7 FM, Pacific Radio Los Angeles hosted by Lois P. Jones, Sunday, November 17, 2013. Interview with Teresa Mei Chuc. Poets Cafe http://www.kpfk.org/programs/103-poetscafe.html
The World Stage, Leimert Park Village, Los Angeles, CA. Wednesday, October 23, 2013 at 7:30 p.m. Anansi Featured Guest Teresa Mei Chuc will be reading her poetry from Red Thread and new poems. https://sites.google.com/site/theworldstage/programs-workshops/lierary-series/featured-poet
CounterPunch: Doug Valentine's Political Poetry series, interview with Teresa Mei Chuc, Friday, October 11, 2013. http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/10/11/poetry-and-transformation/
Utah Book Festival, Sunday, September 29, 2013 at 2 p.m., Library Square, Salt Lake City Public Library. Teresa Mei Chuc will be reading from her poetry book, Red Thread.
The Rattle Reading Series, Rattle #41, Sunday, September 8, 2013 at 5 p.m., Flintridge Bookstore & Coffeehouse. Reading by Carol Denson, Janet Nippell, and Teresa Mei Chuc. http://www.rattle.com/poetry/readings/
Moonday East Reading, Featured Reading (Teresa Mei Chuc & Lynne Thompson), Sunday, July 21, 2013 at 2 p.m., Flintridge Bookstore & Coffeehouse,1010 Foothill Blvd., La Cañada-Flintridge, CA 91011. Teresa Mei Chuc is reading from her new book of poems, Red Thread. http://moondaypoetry.com/moonday-east.html
Please click here for the flyer
Leimert Park Book Fair, Los Angeles, CA, Saturday, June 29, 2013 at 2:30 p.m. The World Stage; 4344 Degnan Blvd in Leimert Park - click here for the schedule The Poet's Salon. Teresa Mei Chuc will be reading from Red Thread. Please click here for more information on the list of poets and writers reading.
2013 AWP Conference, Multicultural Panel of Poet Activists, Saturday, March 9, 2013, 3:00 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. Location: Room 201, Hynes Convention Center, Boston, MA. Event Description: This Multicultural Panel of Poet Activists Francisco Alarcon, E. Ethelbert Miller, Sayra Pinto, Teresa Mei Chuc, and Susan Deer Cloud will read poems of bearing witness together with poems that transform loss and sorrow into joy. They will address how the act of writing itself, getting published, giving readings, doing editing work, and weaving dream, vision and humor into one's creative work and poetry readings is a part of being activists responsible to the human community and all of life. https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/schedule_sat
Fullerton Public Library. Presented in partnership with Fullerton College, December 4, 2012 at 7 p.m., 353 W. Commonwealth Ave, Fullerton, CA - poetry reading/panel with Elijah Imlay, Teresa Mei Chuc, Thomas Patchell, and Shelley Savren. Writers from Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace Anthology and Veterans Writers Group. Please click here for event information http://host5.evanced.info/fullerton/evanced/eventsignup.asp
Pasadena Central Library, Donald R. Wright Auditorium, Saturday, November 24, 2012 from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. Reading with Teresa Mei Chuc, Milena von Oda, Margaret Medina, and Elizabeth Betinski.
http://www.ci.pasadena.ca.us/library/
The Rattle Reading Series & Book Release Reading, Sunday, November 4, 2012, 5 p.m., Flintridge Bookstore & Coffeehouse,1010 Foothill Blvd., La Cañada-Flintridge, CA 91011. Reading by Betty Davis (Norfolk, VA), Dave Jarecki (Portland, OR), Art Beck, and Teresa Mei Chuc from her new book of poems, Red Thread. Click here for flyer http://www.flintridgebooks.com/
Literature Radio Show hosted by Joseph Wade with guest host Ed Kearns, Brooklyn, N.Y., Featured interview and reading (online live) from Brooklyn College - Teresa Mei Chuc, Friday, October 19, 2012, 7 p.m. east coast time. http://sexandpolitics.podbean.com/2012/10/21/teresa-mei-chuc/
Moonday East Reading, Sunday, July 15, 2012 at 2 p.m., Flintridge Bookstore & Coffeehouse,
1010 Foothill Blvd., La Cañada-Flintridge, CA 91011. I read two poems from Red Thread: Poems, "Not Worth a Bullet" and "Agent Orange," during open mic. The featured readers were Alan Fox and Timothy Green from Rattle. http://moondaypoetry.com/moonday-east.html
Rattle #36 Reading & Release Party, Sunday, January 15, 2012, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. The Church in Ocean Park: 235 Hill Street, Santa Monica, CA 90405. Readers: Teresa Mei Chuc, Alan Fox, Sonia Greenfield, Bruce McBirney, Peg Quinn, Diana M. Raab, Ephraim Scott Sommers, and Craig van Rooyen.
Click here for the flyer http://www.rattle.com/reading.htm
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6th Annual Small Press Book Fair - Saturday, May 28, 2011 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at The Church in Ocean Park, 235 Hill Street, Santa Monica, CA. Many Voices Press will have New Poets of the American West anthologies available as well as books by contributing poets. Contributing poets Melinda Palacio, Carol V. Davis, and Teresa Mei Chuc will be at the table for book signings. Reading will be at 1:20 p.m.
Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, Sat., April 30, 2011 (10 a.m. to 6 p.m.) & Sun., May 1 (10 a.m. to 5 p.m.) - New Poets of the American West Anthology will be at the L.A. Times Festival of Books along with books by contributing poets such as Philip Levine, Ellen Bass, Bo Moore, Judith Skillman, Kim-An Lieberman, Kim Addonizio, Jane Hirschfield, Susan Terris, Kate Northrop, and many more. Booth manager and contributing poet: Teresa Mei Chuc. Location: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089. http://events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks/
Santa Monica Public Library, Wednesday, April 13, 2011 at 7:30 p.m. - poetry reading for New Poets of the American West Anthology in celebration of Poetry Month featuring Carol V. Davis, Jeffrey Schultz, Lynne Thompson, and Teresa Mei Chuc.
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Beyond Baroque, Venice, California, March 26, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. - poetry reading for New Poets of the American West Anthology. The reading features contributors Jeffrey Schultz, Joyce E. Young, Lynne Thompson, Maurya Simon, William Archila, Carol V. Davis, Teresa Mei Chuc, Thea Gavin, Craig Cotter, Susan Terris, Melinda Palacio, and Rafael Jesus Gonzalez.
Barnes & Noble Bookstore at Grossmont Ctr in La Mesa, Saturday, November 20, 2010 at 2p.m. - poetry reading for New Poets of the American West Anthology. The reading features contributors Steve Kowit, Sandra Alcosser, Craig Cotter, Teresa Mei Chuc, Karen An-hwei Lee, and Ilya Kaminsky. Event hosted by Seretta Martin and Fred Longworth.
Pasadena Central Library, Donald R. Wright Auditorium, November 6, 2010 at 9:15 a.m., "Breakfast with the Poets"- poetry reading for New Poets of the American West Anthology featuring contributing poets Jeffrey Schultz, Lynne Thompson, Thea Gavin, Carol V. Davis, and Teresa Mei Chuc. http://www.ci.pasadena.ca.us/library/
Borders Books (near UC Santa Barbara), Goleta, CA, September 3, 2010 at 7 p.m. - poetry reading for New Poets of the American West Anthology featuring contributing poets Eve Malo, Thea Gavin, Lynne Thompson, Craig Cotter, Teresa Mei Chuc, and Melinda Palacio.
Vroman's Bookstore, Pasadena, CA, September 1, 2010 at 6:30 p.m. - poetry reading for New Poets of the American West Anthology featuring contributing poets William Archila, Melinda Palacio, Teresa Mei Chuc, and Thea Gavin.
UC Riverside, May 28, 2009 at 4 p.m. - reading of "Orchids", a recently published story in Mosaic: Art & Literary Journal.
The Hive Gallery & Studios in downtown Los Angeles, Spring 2009 - reading with Skid Row poets.