Red Hen Press Poets with Michelle Meow
Join us to celebrate National Poetry Month with Red Hen Press’s poetic publisher, Kate Gale, and Red Hen Press poets Kim Dower, Francisco Aragón and Kim Addonizio, who will each be reading their poems that have electrified the literary world.
Francisco Aragón, the director of Letras Latinas, is a gay Latino poet, the author of After Ruben. Kim Dower’s new book What She Wants explores obsession and desire. And Library Journal has written that “if Kim Addonizio were an opera, the audience would never stop throwing flowers at her feet.”
Michelle Meow will delve into this “living poets society” to demonstrate the talent that makes independent publisher Red Hen Press and its poets so successful.
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Photos courtesy the speakers; Aragón photo by ND Studios.
Kim Addonizio
Poet; Author, nine poetry collections, including Exit Opera, two novels, two story collections, and two books on writing poetry, The Poet’s Companion (with Dorianne Laux) and Ordinary Genius
Francisco Aragón
Poet; Director, Letras Latinas and Professor of the Practice, Institute for Latino Studies, University of Notre Dame; Author, After Rubén, Glow of Our Sweat, and Puerta de Sol; Editor, The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry
Kim Dower
Poet; Author, six collections of poetry, including What She Wants: Poems on Obsession, Desire, Despair, Euphoria and I Wore This Dress Today for You, Mom; Former City Poet Laureate of West Hollywood
Kate Gale
Poet; Publisher, Co-founder and Managing Editor, Red Hen Press; Editor, Los Angeles Review; Guest Speaker on Poetry, Chapman University; Author, poetry, including The Loneliest Girl, the opera libretto Rio de Sangre, the novel Under a Neon Sun, and the memoir Swimming the Milky Way
Michelle Meow
Producer and Host, "The Michelle Meow Show," KPIX+; Member, Commonwealth Club World Affairs of California Board of Governors—Host
