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DESCRIPTION:Join writers Michael Warr and Chun Yu--along with Paula Marie Parker, 
 Michael Wong, Denise Pate, Dera R. Williams, and Cecilia Graybeal, 
 participants of the Two Languages/One Community literary workshop 
 series--for a reception featuring readings of their new poems and essays. 
 These short creative writing pieces reflect upon the theme of "family," and 
 will be presented in English and Mandarin.\n\nBIOS\nMichael Warr’s books 
 include Of Poetry & Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin, The 
 Armageddon of Funk, We Are All The Black Boy, and Power Lines: A Decade of 
 Poetry From Chicago’s Guild Complex. In 2017 he was named a SF Library 
 Laureate. Other poetry honors include a 2014 Creative Work Fund award, 2012 
 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature, 2012 Black 
 Caucus of the American Library Association Award, Gwendolyn Brooks 
 Significant Illinois Poets Award, and a NEA Fellowship for Poetry. Michael 
 is the former Deputy Director of the Museum of the African Diaspora and has 
 extensive experience in community-based arts.\n\nChun Yu, Ph.D., is an 
 author of the award-winning memoire "Little Green: Growing Up During the 
 Chinese Cultural Revolution" and a historical graphic novel in progress on 
 Mao and Emperor Li Yu.  She contributed to the award-winning poetry 
 anthology "Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace" and "Open Doors." Her new 
 poetry collection in English and Chinese has won a San Francisco Arts 
 Commission Cultural Equity Grant which merges science, art, and 
 spirituality based on her experiences as an immigrant from an old culture 
 in revolution to a new world with transforming science and technologies. 
 "Chun Yu's poetry creates sense and order that readers young and old, 
 eastern and western, will appreciate," writes Maxine Hong Kingston. 
 \n\nOakland Asian Cultural Center (OACC)\n388 9th St., Suite 290\nOakland, 
 CA  94607\n510-637-0464\nwww.oacc.cc\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/04/30/18808872.php
SUMMARY:Two Languages/One Community Reception and Reading
LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center (OACC)\n388 9th St., Suite 290\nOakland, CA  
 94607
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/04/30/18808872.php
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