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Wendy Chin Tanner, Jennifer Perrine, and Pamela Santos
March 20, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
FreeA reading featuring the poets Wendy Chin Tanner, Jennifer Perrine, and Pamela Santos
Wendy Chin-Tanner is the author of the poetry collections Turn (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2014), which was a finalist for the Oregon Book Awards and Anyone Will Tell You (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2019), and co-author of the graphic novel American Terrorist (A Wave Blue World). She is a founding editor at Kin Poetry Journal, poetry editor at The Nervous Breakdown, and co-founder at A Wave Blue World.
Jennifer Perrine is a 2019 Oregon Literary Fellowship recipient. She is the author of three books of poetry: No Confession, No Mass (2015), In the Human Zoo (2011), and The Body Is No Machine (2007). Her poems have been described as “muscular,” “hard-working,” “disciplined,” “grimly witty,” “scientific,” “ecstatic,” and “full of surprises.”
Pamela K. Santos is a Pinayorker artist creating multilingual narratives on diasporic identity and hyphenated selves. Her poetry appears in Tayo Magazine, Anomaly, Newtown Literary, Stoked Words, and the Unchaste Anthology. Pamela co-founded Portland’s Winter Poetry Festival and currently curates the Sari Not Sari installation series.