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DESCRIPTION:The Poetry Center joins Kelsey St. Press for a public celebration of the 
 press's 45th Anniversary, with featured readings by poets Mei-mei 
 Berssenbrugge, Ching-In Chen, and Andrea Abi-Karam. Kelsey Street Press was 
 founded in 1974 to address the marginalization of women writers by small 
 press and mainstream publishers. Forty-five years later, the press, still 
 located in the East Bay, remains true to its commitment to bring out a wide 
 range of voices, including the gifted work of trans and genderqueer 
 authors. Hosted by McRoskey Mattress Co., in their third-floor loft space, 
 this event is co-sponsored by The Poetry Center, Kelsey St. Press and The 
 Green Arcade, and is supported in part by the National Endowment for the 
 Arts. Free and open to the public.\n\nMei-mei Berssenbrugge was born in 
 Beijing, grew up in Massachusetts, and lives in northern New Mexico. She 
 has published twelve books of poetry, including five books with Kelsey St 
 Press. Recent works include I Love Artists: New and Selected Poems and A 
 Lit Cloud, a collaboration with artist Kiki Smith. Her latest book, A 
 Treatise on Stars, is forthcoming from New Directions, along with a new 
 edition of Empathy.\n\nChing-In Chen is author of The Heart's Traffic: a 
 novel in poems (Arktoi/Red Hen Press, 2009), recombinant (Kelsey Street 
 Press, 2017; 2018 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Transgender Poetry), to 
 make black paper sing (speCt! Books, 2019), and Kundiman for Kin :: 
 Information Retrieval for Monsters (forthcoming from Portable Press at 
 Yo-Yo Labs). Chen is also co-editor of The Revolution Starts at Home: 
 Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities (South End Press, 
 2011; AK Press 2016) and Here Is a Pen: an Anthology of West Coast Kundiman 
 Poets (Achiote Press, 2009). Born of Chinese immigrants, they have received 
 fellowships from Kundiman, Lambda, Watering Hole, Callaloo, Can Serrat, 
 Storyknife, and Imagining America and are a member of Macondo and Voices of 
 Our Nations Arts Foundation. A community organizer, they have worked in 
 Asian American communities in San Francisco, Oakland, Riverside and Boston. 
 In Autumn 2019, they join the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences 
 and the MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics at the University of Washington 
 Bothell as an assistant professor. More at chinginchen.com\n\nAndrea 
 Abi-Karam is an arab-american genderqueer punk poet-performer cyborg, 
 writing on the art of killing bros, the intricacies of cyborg bodies, 
 trauma & delayed healing. Their chapbook, THE AFTERMATH (Commune Editions, 
 2016; download the PDF), attempts to queer Fanon’s vision of how poetry 
 fails to inspire revolution. Andrea's first book, EXTRATRANSMISSION (Kelsey 
 Street Press, 2019), is a poetic critique of the U.S. military's role in 
 the War on Terror. They toured with Sister Spit 2018 and live in New 
 York.\n\nThis free event begins at 7pm.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/12/13/18828869.php
SUMMARY:Celebration with Kelsey St. Press on its 45th Anniversary
LOCATION:McRoskey Mattress Company\n3rd Floor Loft\n1687 Market Street\nSan 
 Francisc, CA  94103
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/12/13/18828869.php
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