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.

SPEAKERS

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

5 p.m. doors open & check-in
5:30–6:30 p.m program

Host or Publisher The Commonwealth Club