25 March 2010

National Poetry Month with Malaysia-born Poet Justin Chin

Post date: 25 March 2010
Poetry to the people!

San Jose State University (USA) celebrates National Poetry Month with lectures and seminars every Tuesday in April at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library, Street-side Patio. Justin Chin will be a guest on April 27.

Justin Chin is a Malaysia-born writer whose third book of poetry, Gutted, received the Publishing Triangle's 2007 Thom Gunn Award for Poetry, and was a finalist in the Lambda Literary Awards, and the Assoc. for Asian American Studies Book Awards. His other books of poetry are Bite Hard, and Harmless Medicine, a finalist in the 2002 Bay Area Book Reviewers Association Awards. He is also the author of three collections of essays.

(More information HERE.)