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Jack Straw Productions curates an evening of readings in response to SAM's exhibition Alexander Calder: A Balancing Act. Tonight's reading features poets Kim-An Lieberman and Priscilla Long.
Priscilla Long is a Seattle writer who grew up on a dairy farm on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. She was a Jack Straw Writer for 2009, and her awards include a National Magazine Award. Her poems, stories and nonfictions appear in journals such as The American Scholar, Ontario Review, Fourth Genre, Under the Sun, The Southern Review, The Cincinnati Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Chattahoochee Review, The Seattle Review, Southern Humanities Review and Passages North.
Kim-An Lieberman’s debut collection of poems, Breaking the Map, won a first book award from Blue Begonia Press in 2008. Her work also appears in journals and anthologies including Poetry Northwest, Prairie Schooner, CALYX, ZYZZYVA and Poets of the American West. She holds a Ph.D. in Vietnamese American literature from the University of California, Berkeley and teaches English at Seattle’s Lakeside School. She was a Jack Straw Writer for 2009.
Featuring everyone from spoken word poets to literary figures, these evenings of words as art are at once intimate and engaging.
Free with museum admission.
SAM Word print sponsor: SeattleWeekly
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