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- Wednesday, August 19 – CT Young Poet’s Day – Natalie Diaz Aja Monet
- Natalie Diaz and Aja Monet
- 2015 Sunken Garden Poetry Festival
- Thursday, June 25
- Wednesday, July 22 – Vijay Seshadri
- Thursday, July 23
Li-Young Lee is the author of four books of poetry, including, most recently, Behind My Eyes. His earlier collections are Book of My Nights, Rose, winner of the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award, The City in Which I Love You, the 1990 Lamont Poetry Selection, and a memoir entitled The Winged Seed: A Remembrance, which received an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation and was reissued by BOA Editions in 2012. Lee’s honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Lannan Foundation, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, as well as grants from the Illinois Arts Council, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. 
Poets, pg. 3 of 4 Tina Chang is the Poet Laureate of Brooklyn. The first woman named to this position, she 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, and The New York Times among others. 
IN THE MUSEUM: As part of its Open House format during the Festival, Hill-Stead Museum will display its rarely-seen collection of original Asian wood-block prints, Chinese porcelain, and other unique Asian objects. Wednesday, August 19 – CT Young Poet’s Day – Natalie Diaz & Aja Monet The season concludes with CT Young Poet’s Day beginning at 5 pm with the “Fresh Voices” reading, featuring winners from eight Connecticut poetry programs. In addition to students from the museum’s own Fresh Voices Competition and Hartford Poetry Outreach, participants will include students from Poetry Out Loud, Connecticut Young Writers Trust, Connecticut Poetry Circuit, Student Poets Laureate at the Arts Café Mystic, OneWord CT/National Youth Poetry Slam Team and ASAP After School Arts Program. Following the Fresh Voices reading, audiences will enjoy music and reading by poets, Natalie Diaz and Aja Monet. Native American Poet Natalie Diaz is the author of When My Brother Was an Aztec. Her work has been recognized by the Lannan Foundation, and she has received the Nimrod/Hardman Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, the Louis Untermeyer Scholarship in Poetry from Bread Loaf, and the Narrative Poetry Prize. Her poetry and other writing can be found in Ploughshares, Narrative, The Rumpus, and Gwarlingo. She lives in Arizona. 
Aja Monet is an award-winning performance poet. Harry Belafonte once called Aja Monet “The true definition of an artist.” An internationally established poet, Monet is the youngest individual to win the legendary Nuyorican Poet’s Café Grand Slam title. Her books of poetry are Inner-City Chants & Cyborg Cyphers, (2015) and The Black Unicorn Sings (Penmanship Books). In addition, she collaborated with poet/musician Saul Williams on the book Chorus: a literary mixtape (MTV books/Simon & Schuster). Her first CD Scared to Make Love/Scared Not To, a testament to her creative lens and a social commentary on the discussion of love, was independently released through Bandcamp. Of Cuban-Jamaican heritage, Monet has performed at world-renowned venues including the Town Hall Theater, the Apollo Theater, the United Nations in New York City, and the NAACP’s Barack Obama Inaugural event in Washington DC. 
Poets, pg. 3 of 4 2015 Sunken Garden Poetry Festival Daily SCHEDULE Wednesday, June 24 - Ted Kooser Food Truck: Fryborg 4:30 Gates open 5:00 John Stanizzi’s prelude conversation with Ted Kooser Carriage Barn 6:00 Hadara Bar-Nadav opens Sunken Garden Stage 6:30 (Amy Gallatin & Stillwaters) Music begins Sunken Garden Stage 7:15 Ted Kooser performs Sunken Garden Stage
10-12 Writing workshop with Ted Kooser Carriage Barn Sunday, July 12 – Marie Howe Food Truck: Eat at Bernie’s 10 – 12 Writing workshop with Marie Howe Carriage Barn 1:30 Gates open 2:00 Ciaran Berry delivers prelude conversation with Marie Howe Carriage Barn 3:00 Ciaran Berry opens Sunken Garden Stage 3:30 Jazz Music begins Sunken Garden Stage 4:15 Marie Howe performs Sunken Garden Stage Wednesday, July 22 – Vijay Seshadri Food Truck: Get it Toasted 4:30 Gates open 5:00 Ravi Shankar delivers prelude conversation with Vijay Seshadri Carriage Barn 6:00 Ravi Shankar opens Sunken Garden Stage 6:30 Mike Assetta Jazz Duo begins Sunken Garden Stage 7:15 Vijay Seshadri performs Sunken Garden Stage
10-12 Writing workshop with Vijay Seshadri Carriage Barn Sunday, August 9 – Li-Young Lee & Tina Chang – OUTSPOKEN: Celebration of Asian Poetry Saturday, August 8: 12:30 – 2:30 Recitation and discussion workshop Tina Chang Carriage Barn 3:00 – 5:00 Writing workshop with Li-Young Lee Carriage Barn Food Truck: Get it Toasted Sunday, August 9: Noon Tina Chang’s community reading Carriage Barn 1:30 Gates open 2:00 Jeffrey Partridge, prelude conversation with Li-Young Lee & Tina Chang Carriage Barn 3:00 Tina Chang opens Sunken Garden Stage 3:30 (Celadon Youth Ensemble) Asian Music performance Sunken Garden Stage 4:15 Li-Young Lee performs Sunken Garden Stage
Food Truck: Get it Toasted Noon Young Poet’s writing workshop with Aja Monet Carriage Barn 2:00 Young Poet’s writing workshop with Natalie Diaz Carriage Barn 4:30 Gates open 5:00 Introduction by NBC Connecticut - Fresh Voices student winners perform Sunken Garden Stage 6:00 Aja Monet opens with her band Sunken Garden Stage 7:00 Natalie Diaz performs Sunken Garden Stage Directory: uploaded uploaded -> Summer Assignment uploaded -> Post Magazine & Insurance Times 26 May 2011 Editions uploaded -> Alabama Historical Association Annual Meeting Presentations 1980–present 33rd Annual Meeting — 1980 uploaded -> Corbicula an annotated bibliography 1774 2005 uploaded -> Current as of June 5, 2013 Note: This list contains only associate members. To see a full directory of cs4 members uploaded -> Mr. Donald S. Moss Du Quoin Community Unit District 300 Educational Foundation 2011 Excellence in Achievement Award uploaded -> Harold j. Brody, md uploaded -> Kerry B. Dumbaugh uploaded -> Professional experience Download 194.78 Kb. Share with your friends:
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