Celebrating Poetry with Brynn Saito, Lee Herrick, Amber Flame, Jason Bayani

A event celebrating the launch of Brynn Saito's new poetry collection, Under a Future Sky.

United Japanese Christian Church, North Villa Avenue, Clovis, CA, USA

Under a Future Sky: Celebrating Poetry with Brynn Saito, Lee Herrick, Amber Flame and Jason Bayani on 8/30/23Join us for a special evening celebrating poetry at the United Japanese Christian Church in Clovis, CA. Poets Brynn Saito, Lee Herrick, Amber Flame, and Jason Bayani will engage in a conversation on poetry, community, spirituality, and art-making, then share their work. The event will culminate in a special reading from Under a Future Sky, Brynn's newest collection of poems. Doors will open at 6pm; event will start at 6:30pm. Poets will sell and sign books after the event. All are welcome! F﻿or accommodations or questions, please email brynn.saito@gmail.comJason Bayani is the author of Locus (Omnidawn Publishing 2019, Norcal Book Award finalist) and Amulet (Write Bloody Publishing 2013). He's the co-director of Kearny Street Workshop, the oldest multi-disciplinary Asian Pacific American arts organization in the country. Jason is the recipient of the 2021 California Arts Council Established artist fellowship and is a featured artist for the Consortium of Asian American Theaters and Artists Festival in 2022. He performs regularly around the country and debuted his solo theater show "Locus of Control" in 2016 with theatrical runs in San Francisco, New York, and Austin. Amber Flame is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, activist and educator, whose work garnered residencies with Hedgebrook, Vermont Studio Center, and more. A former church kid from the Southwest, Flame’s work first full-length poetry collection, Ordinary Cruelty, published in 2017 through Write Bloody Press. Flame’s second book, apocrifa, is a love story told in verse of a non-gendered lover and their beloved, inspired by the Bible’s Song of Songs, and launched May 2023 from Red Hen Press. Amber Flame is a queer Black dandy mama who falls hard for a jumpsuit and some fresh kicks.Lee Herrick is the California Poet Laureate. He is the author of three books of poems: Scar and Flower, finalist for the 2020 Northern California Book Award; Gardening Secrets of the Dead; and This Many Miles from Desire. He is co-editor of The World I Leave You: Asian American Poets on Faith and Spirit (Orison Books 2020). He was born in Daejeon, Korea and adopted as an infant. Lee teaches at Fresno City College and in the low-residency MFA program at University of Nevada Reno at Lake Tahoe. He is the 10th California Poet Laureate, and the first Asian American to serve in the role.Brynn Saito is the author of three books of poetry, most recently Under a Future Sky (Red Hen Press, Aug 2023), and two chapbooks of poems. She’s the recipient of the Benjamin Saltman Award and her poems have appeared in the New York Times and American Poetry Review. Brynn lives in the traditional homelands of the Yokuts and Mono peoples (aka, Fresno, CA) where she teaches in the MFA program at Fresno State. Brynn is co-editing with Brandon Shimoda an anthology of poetry written by descendants of the Japanese American incarceration, forthcoming in 2025 from Haymarket Books.

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