Kate Gale, Maxine Hong Kingston & Shelley Savren - An Afternoon of Poetry

Join us for an evening of poetry with authors Kate Gale, Maxine Hong Kingston and Shelley Savren.

Praise for The Goldilocks Zone "The clipped jumpy rhythm of these poems with their sudden bursts of syntax prove repeatedly that Kate Gale possesses a poetic tone and pace all her own. She is also refreshingly out of step with today's poetry of self-absorption, for she is fascinated less by her ego than by the strange variety of the world around us." —Billy Collins, former U.S. Poet Laureate

In her singular voice—both humble and brave, touching and humorous—Maxine Hong Kingston's I Love a Broad Margin to My Life gives us a poignant and beautiful memoir-in-verse that captures the wisdom that comes with age. As she reflects on her sixty-five years, she circles from present to past and back, from lunch with a writer friend to the funeral of a Vietnam veteran, from her long marriage to her arrest at a peace march in Washington. On her journeys as writer, peace activist, teacher, and mother, she revisits her most beloved characters—Wittman Ah-Sing, the Tripmaster Monkey, and Fa Mook Lan, the Woman Warrior—and presents us with a beautiful meditation on China then and now. The result is a marvelous account of an American life of great purpose and joy, and the tonic wisdom of a writer we have come to cherish.

In The Wild Shine of Oranges, Shelley Savren finds the neglected, incarcerated and sick, and explores the perils of family, and a daughter coming into her own. These frank, tightly-crafted narratives recount the sounds of protest and are testament to lives lost and shared, where, in moments of mercy, “there are no shadows.”    —Dorianne Laux

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The Goldilocks Zone (Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry) By Kate Gale Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780826354327
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Published: University of New Mexico Press - February 15th, 2014

Echo Light By Kate Gale Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780985503185
Published: Red Mountain Press - September 30th, 2014

I Love a Broad Margin to My Life (Vintage International) By Maxine Hong Kingston Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780307454591
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Published: Vintage - February 14th, 2012

The Wild Shine of Oranges By Shelley Savren Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781893670440
Published: Tebot Bach - September 2nd, 2013