Join us for the first reading of 2021, as we kick off with poets Dorothy Chan, Kirwyn Sutherland, and Ernest O. Ògúnyẹmí. Reading will be followed by a brief Q&A with the poets. This event will be streamed live on our YouTube channel and on our Facebook page.
January Watershed Reading
Dorothy Chan is the author of Revenge of the Asian Woman (Diode Editions, 2019), Attack of the Fifty-Foot Centerfold (Spork Press, 2018), and the chapbook Chinatown Sonnets (New Delta Review, 2017). She was a 2020 and 2014 finalist for the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship, a 2020 finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Bisexual Poetry for Revenge of the Asian Woman, and a 2019 recipient of the Philip Freund Prize in Creative Writing from Cornell University. Her work has appeared in POETRY, The American Poetry Review, Academy of American Poets, and elsewhere. She is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Poetry Editor of Hobart, Book Reviews Co-Editor of Pleiades, and Founding Editor and Editor in Chief of Honey Literary.
Kirwyn Sutherland is a Ciinical Research Professional and poet who makes poems centering the black experience in America. He is a Watering Hole fellow and has attended workshops/residencies at Cave Canem, Winter Tangerine, Poets House, Philadelphia Sculpture Gym, and Pearlstein Art Gallery at Drexel University. Kirwyn’s work has been published in American Poetry Review, Blueshift Journal, APIARY Magazine, FOLDER, The Wanderer, and elsewhere. Kirwyn has served as Editor of Lists/Book Reviewer for WusGood magazine and poetry editor for APIARY Magazine. Kirwyn has a chapbook, Jump Ship, on Thread Makes Blanket Press.
He was inspired to write poetry while watching the HBO series Def Poetry Jam. Issues of racial discrimination, apartheid, and survival as a black man discussed in the poetry of Amiri Baraka, Craig muMs Grant, and Black Ice hit home for Kirwyn... Read More
Ernest O. Ògúnyẹmí is the author of the chapbook, A Pocket of Genesis (Variant Literature, 2023). He curated The Fire That Is Dreamed Of: The Young African Poets Anthology (Agbowó, 2020), the first anthology of poems by teenage African poets in the continent and its diaspora. His works appear/ are forthcoming in AGNI, the Sun, Hopkins Review, Kenyon Review, Joyland, the Moth, Banshee, Muzzle, 20.35 Africa, Fantasy, Asimov’s, Mooncalves: An Anthology of Weird Fiction, and elsewhere.
Ògúnyẹmí also teaches poetry workshops. In 2022, he served as a Visiting Teaching Artist with the Poetry Foundation. In 2021, he taught an extensive poetry workshop with the Nairobi Writing Academy (NaiWa). He was a poetry mentor in the Adroit Summer Mentorship Program—in 2022; and he returns as a mentor in the same program in 2023.
Among other honors, he is the winner of the inaugural Miracle Monocle Award for Young Black Writers from the University of Louisville. He won second place in... Read More
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