The Poetry Vlog's video: Woogee Bae AWP 2019 Offsite poetryreading Sponsored by the UW Bothell MFA

Receive notifications when new episodes go live (and help me reach the benchmark that allows for a unique YouTube URL ;)): ✔︎ https://www.youtube.com/c/thepoetryvlog?sub_confirmation=1 - About: This is a live recording of a poetry reading at AWP 2019 in Portland (PDX), Oregon. Hosted by Ristretto Roasters and sponsored by the UW Bothell, MFA, the readers include Jane Wong, Woogee Bae, Dana Middleton, Michael Flatt, and Travis Sharp. - On the event: "How can one say where the place of foreign water begins when the border itself is water?" Yoko Tawada, Where Europe Begins Those of us who live between borders know how strange it is to uphold clear lines of separation—of language, gender, race, nationality, ecology, technology, and more. And we know that while the lines are drawn arbitrarily to divide and control us, to make us easier to corral, this act of drawing leaves marks on our bodies. Our reading attempts to revisit and rework relationships to the many borders we cross, blur, turn away from, or throw stones at, and the multitude ways in which we realign our own boundaries and flows in an attempt to survive in a bordered world. Featuring readings from: Jane Wong Michael Flatt Travis Sharp dana middleton Woogee Bae Sponsored by the MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics program at the University of Washington Bothell. --- JANE WONG's poems can be found in Best American Poetry 2015, American Poetry Review, AGNI, Poetry, and others. A Kundiman fellow, she is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from the U.S. Fulbright Program, the Fine Arts Work Center, Hedgebrook, and Bread Loaf. She is the author of Overpour (Action Books, 2016) and is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Western Washington University. MICHAEL FLATT is a PhD candidate in the SUNY Buffalo Poetics Program. He is the author of Absent Receiver (SpringGun, 2013) and with Derrick Mund, Chlorosis (The Operating System, 2018). He is also the founder of Low Frequency Press, which publishes books and book-like objects of marginal aesthetics, including most recently, hiromi suzuki's Invisible Scenery: deconstructed GIFs. TRAVIS SHARP is the author of the chapbook Sinister Queer Agenda (above/ground press, 2018) and the artist's books one plus one is two ones (Recreational Resources, forthcoming). He's an editor and designer at Essay Press, a teaching artist at the Just Buffalo Literary Center, and a PhD student in the SUNY Buffalo Poetics Program. DANA MIDDLETON is a Poetics MFA candidate at the University of Washington Bothell. They write poetry about surveillance, control, wild dogs, and foam. WOOGEE BAE is an MFA candidate in poetry at the University of Washington Bothell. Her works can be found online and in print in P-QUEUE, Peach Mag, Small Po[r]tions, and elsewhere. - More on Woogee Bae: ✔︎https://www.twitter.com/qodnrl/ ✔︎https://www.instagram.com/qodnrl - Receive Snail Mail welcome gift with newsletter sign-up at: ✔︎ https://thepoetryvlog.com - ✔︎ Podcast edition: https://anchor.fm/thepoetryvlog - Support this education project: ✔︎ https://anchor.fm/thepoetryvlog/support - Say hi to me over @: ✔︎ https://instagram.com/thepoetryvlog ✔︎ https://twitter.com/thepoetryvlog ✔︎ https://facebook.com/thepoetryvlog ✔︎ https://thepoetryvlog.com