Corporeal Writing Offsite Happy Hour

Please join Lidia Yuknavitch and the Corporeal Writing crew from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. for Happy Hour at Corporeal Center, 510 SW 3rd Ave #101. We will have libations, lit, and laughter queued up and ready to spin you down from three days of go, go, go! For your literary listening pleasure, we welcome writers Teow Lim Goh, Nastashia Minto, Valarie Newman, Joe Nasta, and Rios de la Luz.
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Joe Nasta is a queer writer and mariner who splits his time between Seattle, New York, and the ocean. He has studied with Brooklyn Poets, Winter Tangerine, and Corporeal Writing. His work has been featured by Brooklyn Poets The Bridge, Running Wild Press, Cadence Video Poetry Festival, and Yes Poetry. He edits a zine of PNW art and writing at stonepacificzine.com and can be found on Instagram (@jrnasta) and twitter (@roflcoptermcgee).

Rios de la Luz is a queer xicana and chapina living in El Paso. She is the author of the short story collection, The Pulse Between Dimensions and The Desert and the novella, Itzá. Her work has been featured in Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Luna Luna Magazine, Corporeal Clamor, Broadly, WOHE Lit and St. Sucia. Rios is a water witch who writes for weird Brown girls everywhere.

Valarie Rea is a Portland prose writer whose primary genre is creative nonfiction. Her writing can best be described by what Kate Millet calls testimony writing. Millet says this is “the literature of the witness” and is “rooted like a flower amid carnage.” Through her writing, Valarie strives to make those who are invisible visible. She is currently working to finish her memoir which focuses on her six years of living outside in San Francisco’s Mission District. Besides writing, Valarie works with women who have experienced sexual violence helping them navigate their path back to freedom.

Nastashia Minto has performed at the Unchaste Readers Series, Neon Dream, Incite and various other reading series in the Portland area. Nastashia appeared on Talking Earth, a KBOO radio program with two other Portland poets. She has published work in SUSAN the journal and online format and forthcoming Unchaste Anthology Volume III. Her first book, Naked, was published February 28th, 2019 from Eldredge Press. A Georgia native whom currently lives in Portland, Oregon.

Teow Lim Goh writes from the nexus of place and history. One of her ongoing projects is to recover the buried histories of Chinese immigrants in the American West. Her first book Islanders, which appeared in 2016, is a volume of poems on Chinese exclusion and detention at the Angel Island Immigration Station at the beginning of the 20th century. The New Yorker writes of this work, “Teow Lim Goh imagines English-language versions of the poems that Chinese women detainees might have composed… Throughout the slim volume, Goh presents wounds that strip searches, medical exams, and extended interrogations did not reveal.” She has completed a second book of poems and a collection of essays, both set in the open spaces of the West.