Poetry Center San Jose (PCSJ) presents Well-RED, an exciting poetry reading series in downtown San Jose, featuring Henry Leung at Works/San Jose on May 15th at 7pm.
Henry Leung, reading from his new book of poems, Paradise Hunger. Leung was born in a village in China’s Pearl River Delta. He grew up in Honolulu, then the San Francisco Bay Area. He earned his BA from Stanford while studying abroad at Peking, Cambridge, and Oxford Universities. He was the first President of Oceanic Tongues, Stanford’s Asian American Writers’ Workshop. Now, a Kundiman Fellow and a columnist for the Lantern Review, he is working toward his MFA in Fiction at the University of Michigan. He was recently awarded the Soros Fellowship, for which he received mention in The New York Times. His work has appeared in such journals as Boxcar, Cerise Press, Memoir Journal, and ZYZZYVA. He has served as a teaching assistant at the Prague Summer Program, as assistant managing editor for the Best American Nonrequired Reading, and as a reader for NPR’s Three Minute Fiction Contest.
Acclaim for Paradise Hunger:
“Exquisitely structured in elegiac lyric tapestries, Paradise Hunger ferries us into a luminous underworld filled with messages of grief and the promise of renewal. From Hawai’i to Guangdong, Castro Valley to the Gobi Desert, Paradise Hunger maps the intricate geography of mourning, dazzling in its juxtaposition of sorrow and resilience. "
-Stephen Hong Sohn
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Henry Leung, reading from his new book of poems, Paradise Hunger. Leung was born in a village in China’s Pearl River Delta. He grew up in Honolulu, then the San Francisco Bay Area. He earned his BA from Stanford while studying abroad at Peking, Cambridge, and Oxford Universities. He was the first President of Oceanic Tongues, Stanford’s Asian American Writers’ Workshop. Now, a Kundiman Fellow and a columnist for the Lantern Review, he is working toward his MFA in Fiction at the University of Michigan. He was recently awarded the Soros Fellowship, for which he received mention in The New York Times. His work has appeared in such journals as Boxcar, Cerise Press, Memoir Journal, and ZYZZYVA. He has served as a teaching assistant at the Prague Summer Program, as assistant managing editor for the Best American Nonrequired Reading, and as a reader for NPR’s Three Minute Fiction Contest.
Acclaim for Paradise Hunger:
“Exquisitely structured in elegiac lyric tapestries, Paradise Hunger ferries us into a luminous underworld filled with messages of grief and the promise of renewal. From Hawai’i to Guangdong, Castro Valley to the Gobi Desert, Paradise Hunger maps the intricate geography of mourning, dazzling in its juxtaposition of sorrow and resilience. "
-Stephen Hong Sohn
Poetry Center San Jose (PCSJ) presents Well-RED, an exciting poetry reading series in downtown San Jose, featuring Henry Leung at Works/San Jose on May 15th at 7pm.
Henry Leung, reading from his new book of poems, Paradise Hunger. Leung was born in a village in China’s Pearl River Delta. He grew up in Honolulu, then the San Francisco Bay Area. He earned his BA from Stanford while studying abroad at Peking, Cambridge, and Oxford Universities. He was the first President of Oceanic Tongues, Stanford’s Asian American Writers’ Workshop. Now, a Kundiman Fellow and a columnist for the Lantern Review, he is working toward his MFA in Fiction at the University of Michigan. He was recently awarded the Soros Fellowship, for which he received mention in The New York Times. His work has appeared in such journals as Boxcar, Cerise Press, Memoir Journal, and ZYZZYVA. He has served as a teaching assistant at the Prague Summer Program, as assistant managing editor for the Best American Nonrequired Reading, and as a reader for NPR’s Three Minute Fiction Contest.
Acclaim for Paradise Hunger:
“Exquisitely structured in elegiac lyric tapestries, Paradise Hunger ferries us into a luminous underworld filled with messages of grief and the promise of renewal. From Hawai’i to Guangdong, Castro Valley to the Gobi Desert, Paradise Hunger maps the intricate geography of mourning, dazzling in its juxtaposition of sorrow and resilience. "
-Stephen Hong Sohn
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Henry Leung, reading from his new book of poems, Paradise Hunger. Leung was born in a village in China’s Pearl River Delta. He grew up in Honolulu, then the San Francisco Bay Area. He earned his BA from Stanford while studying abroad at Peking, Cambridge, and Oxford Universities. He was the first President of Oceanic Tongues, Stanford’s Asian American Writers’ Workshop. Now, a Kundiman Fellow and a columnist for the Lantern Review, he is working toward his MFA in Fiction at the University of Michigan. He was recently awarded the Soros Fellowship, for which he received mention in The New York Times. His work has appeared in such journals as Boxcar, Cerise Press, Memoir Journal, and ZYZZYVA. He has served as a teaching assistant at the Prague Summer Program, as assistant managing editor for the Best American Nonrequired Reading, and as a reader for NPR’s Three Minute Fiction Contest.
Acclaim for Paradise Hunger:
“Exquisitely structured in elegiac lyric tapestries, Paradise Hunger ferries us into a luminous underworld filled with messages of grief and the promise of renewal. From Hawai’i to Guangdong, Castro Valley to the Gobi Desert, Paradise Hunger maps the intricate geography of mourning, dazzling in its juxtaposition of sorrow and resilience. "
-Stephen Hong Sohn
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365 South Market Street , San Jose, CA 95113
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