Name: Book Launch: "Bitter Creek: An Epic Poem" by Teow Lim Goh
Start: 2025-05-16T18:30:00-06:00
End: 2025-05-16T20:00:00-06:00
Location: The Shop at MATTER

Book Launch: "Bitter Creek: An Epic Poem" by Teow Lim Goh

The Shop at MATTER

Join us for the launch of "Bitter Creek," Teow Lim Goh’s epic poem about the 1885 Rock Springs Massacre.

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We encourage everyone to prepurchase their books before the event as we cannot guarantee book availability without prepurchase. If you prefer to RSVP without purchasing the book, use the promo code "NOBOOK" when checking out. Please reach out to events@morematter.com with any questions. Join us on May 16 from 6:30 to 8PM at Shop at MATTER for the launch of Bitter Creek, a sweeping epic narrative poem by Denver-based poet Teow Lim Goh. In this powerful new work, Goh unearths the buried stories of the 1885 Rock Springs Massacre.In September of 1885 the Chinese coal miners who were brought into Wyoming as strikebreakers were ambushed and driven out of the town of Rock Springs at gunpoint by white coal miners. Bitter Creek revisits this dark episode—known today as the Rock Springs Massacre—revealing the stories beneath this violent, decade-long culmination of labor struggles and racial hostilities in the Union Pacific Coal Mines. This September marks the 140th anniversary of the event.Through the eyes of the struggling railroad workers, their families, and the corporation working them to the bone, Teow Lim Goh creates an ode to buried history that blends epic tradition with modern composition and astonishing empathy to ask the question, “What turns ordinary people into monsters?”“Like the railroad tracks, two stories exist side-by-side in one incredible piece of work.”—LINDA HOGAN, A History of Kindness Teow Lim Goh will be present to discuss her writing process, the research behind the book, and the importance of telling difficult stories. She will also be signing copies of her work. Don’t miss this evening of poetry, conversation, and history. You can also buy the book <a href="https://www.shopatmatter.com/product/bitter-creek/" title="https://www.shopatmatter.com/product/bitter-creek/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</a>. ABOUT THE AUTHORTeow Lim Goh is the author of three poetry collections, Islanders (2016), Faraway Places (2021), and Bitter Creek (2025). Her essay collection Western Journeys (2022) was a finalist for the 2023 Colorado Book Awards in Creative Nonfiction. Her writing has been featured in The Georgia Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Los Angeles Review of Books, High Country News, and The New Yorker. AGENDA6:30PM Welcome to MATTER &amp; mingling 7:15PM Reading &amp; Discussion 7:30PM Book Signing Masks are encouraged.

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