The I <3 BOMB Reading

02/06/12 07:00 PM - 01/31/13 08:07 AM

The powerHouse Arena invites you to

The I <3 BOMB Reading

featuring

Alexander Chee
Robin Beth Schaer
Tina Chang
with a performance by
Alina Simone

Monday, February 6, 7–9pm
The powerHouse Arena
37 Main Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201
For more information, please call 718.666.3049
Please RSVP: rsvp@powerHouseArena.com

Celebrate Valentine's Day early with the staff of BOMB Magazine for an evening of readings, wine, and conversation. Hear writers and musicians bare their souls, confess their crushes, and describe past heartbreaks. Featured readers include Alexander Chee, Tina Chang, Robin Beth Schaer, and Alina Simone, who will also be performing. With some mashup videos and slideshows, and maybe even a BOMB-aoke or two, this will be a fun-filled night of fiction, poetry, music, and art that will warm your heart and libido.

About the readers:

Alexander Chee was born in Rhode Island, and raised in South Korea, Guam and Maine. He is a recipient of the 2003 Whiting Writers’ Award, a 2004 NEA Fellowship in Fiction and residency fellowships from the MacDowell Colony , the VCCA, Ledig House, the Hermitage and Civitella Ranieri . His first novel, Edinburgh (Picador, 2002), is a winner of the Michener Copernicus Prize, the AAWW Lit Award and the Lambda Editor’s Choice Prize, and was a Publisher’s Weekly Best Book of the Year and a Booksense 76 selection. In 2003, Out Magazine honored him as one of their 100 Most Influential People of the Year. His essays and stories have appeared in Granta.com, Out,The Man I Might Become, Loss Within Loss, Men On Men 2000, His 3 and Boys Like Us. He has taught fiction and nonfiction writing at the New School University, Wesleyan, Amherst College, and in spring 2011 will teach in the Fiction program at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He lives in New York City and blogs at Koreanish.

His second novel, The Queen of the Night, is forthcoming from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Robin Beth Schaer's poems have appeared in Tin House, The Awl, Barrow Street, Denver Quarterly, Washington Square, and Prairie Schooner, among others. She has received fellowships from Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Saltonstall Foundation, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She teaches writing at Cooper Union and Marymount Manhattan College, and occasionally ships out to sea as a deckhand aboard the Tall Ship Bounty.

Brooklyn Poet Laureate Tina Chang was raised in New York City. She is the author of the poetry collections Half-Lit Houses and Of Gods & Strangers (Four Way Books) and co-editor of the anthology Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia and Beyond (W.W. Norton, 2008) along with Nathalie Handal and Ravi Shankar. Her poems have appeared in American Poet, McSweeney’s, Ploughshares, The New York Times among others.

Her work has also been anthologized in Identity Lessons, Poetry Nation, Asian American Literature, Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation, From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems and in Poetry 30: Poets in Their Thirties. She has received awards from the Academy of American Poets, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, Poets & Writers, the Van Lier Foundation among others.

She currently teaches poetry at Sarah Lawrence College.

Alina Simone is a singer and writer based in Brooklyn. Her album Everyone Is Crying Out To Me Beware, which covers the music of Soviet punk-poet Yanka Dyagileva, was described as either "haunting" or "haunted" by more than a dozen publications, including The New Yorker, Spin, NPR and Pitchfork. Her next original full-length album, Make Your Own Danger, and her first book of autobiographical essays, You Must Go and Win (Faber and Faber) were both released last June.