Friday, May 5: Oki Sogumi & Jeanine Webb (+ via video Feliz Lucia Molina)

Oki Sogumi was born in Seoul, South Korea as military dictatorship ended. She writes poetry and fiction, and her forthcoming speculative novella is about giant insects, migration, time travel, oceanic feelings, wellness, and both the limits and possibilities of relations like friendship. She currently resides in Philadelphia.

Jeanine Webb (she/they) is a writer, collective organizer, cancer survivor and is a Dissertation Fellow in Literature at UC San Diego. Her research focuses include poetry and politics, and race and gender in speculative fiction . Her poetry has been published in many journals, including Lana Turner, The Capilano Review, The West Wind Review, ARMED CELL, The Ghazal Page, The Antioch Review, Star*Line, ZYZZYVA, Jupiter 88 and in the collaborative poetry pamphlet Poetry is Not Enough, with two poems forthcoming in Lumen. Her essays have been published on ON Contemporary Practice's .pdf Archive Series, The Poetic Labor Project, the Post-Crisis Poetics series and on Monstering Magazine, with another forthcoming for Tripwire. A feature on her poetry, edited by Perwana Nazif, is forthcoming in Cold Cut Magazine. Some current or forthcoming book projects which feature her work include the San Diego Writers' Anthology A Year In Ink Vol.3, the Now That's What I Call Poetry Anthology, The Alette in Oakland Reader and Occupy Poetics. When she can afford to, she publishes the bilingual, cartonera-style handmade journal, TACOCAT. Last year she presented on contemporary graphic novels at Comic-Con and this summer she will be a fellow-in-residence at Emory's Rose Library and teaching a course on Women Writing the Ancient and Classical World.

Feliz Lucia Molina was born and raised in San Fernando Valley, LA, to Filipino immigrant parents. Her books are Undercastle, The Wes Letters, Roulette & Thundercastle (both forthcoming), and chapbook Crystal Marys. Poems have and about to appear in Gauss PDF, Open Space, Night Papers, Fence, Pen Am, & elsewhere. Living in Chicago, she visits fam in Desert Hot Springs, California.

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Friday, May 5 2017

Doors 7:30pm
Reading 8pm

Poetic Research Bureau

951 Chung King Road

Chinatown, LA