Saturday, April 23, 2016

Serena Chopra, Sueyeun Juliette Lee, and Joshua Ware

Serena Chopra, Sueyeun Juliette Lee, and Joshua Ware
5pm Sunday, May 1st


Serena Chopra is a PhD candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Denver. She is the author of This Human (Coconut Books, 2013) and Ic (forthcoming from Horse Less Press, 2016), as well as the chapbooks, Penumbra (Flying Guillotine Press, 2011) and Livid Season (Free Poetry, 2012). She is a 2016-2017 Fulbright Scholar, working with narrative and queer women in Bangalore, India. She is also a professional dancer serving as a current company member of Evolving Doors Dance, as well as a visual artist, acting as a 2011-2013 Resident Artist at the RedLine Gallery in Denver. She teaches in the Creative Writing MFA program at Naropa University's Jack Kerouac School.


Sueyeun Juliette Lee grew up three miles from the CIA. A former Pew Fellow in the Arts for Literature, her books include That Gorgeous Feeling (Coconut), Underground National (Factory School), and Solar Maximum (Futurepoem) as well as numerous chapbooks. She founded Corollary Press, a chapbook series dedicated to innovative multi-ethnic writing, and writes reviews for The Constant Critic, a project of Fence Books. Her critical essays explore Asian American contemporary poetics as well as the imaginations of spaces and time. She has held arts residencies in poetry, dance, and video art in Hafnarborg (Iceland), Kunstnarhuset Messen (Norway), and UCross Foundation (Wyoming). She currently works at a women's shelter in Denver. You can find her at silentbroadcast.com


Joshua Ware is a poet and collage artist who was born in Cleveland, OH. He is the author of the recently published Unwanted Invention / Vargtimmen, as well as Homage to Homage to Homage to Creeley. He currently lives in Denver, CO.