Verse Takes Flight: A Poetry Book Club at Lofty Pigeon Books
About this Event
In June, we'll discuss Wo Chan's Togetherness—a vibrant, richly textured debut collection around migration & queerness, unfolding & blossoming a life in spite of uncertainty.
We'll begin each meeting by introducing ourselves to each other and reading 1-2 poems together, then use the remaining time for reflection and sharing.
Though it's not necessary to read the book to attend, it is encouraged for lively discussion. Get 10% off Togetherness with promo code BOOKCLUB online or by mentioning the book club at in-store checkout!
About Togetherness
Togetherness sends out sparks from its electric surface, radiating energy and verve from within its deep and steady emotional core: stories of the poet’s immigrant childhood spent in their family’s Chinese restaurant, culminating in a deportation battle against the State. These narrative threads weave together monologue, soaring lyric descants, and document, taking the positions of apostrophe, biography, and soulful plaint to stage a vibrant and daring performance in which drag is formalism and formalism is drag—at once campy and sincere, queer, tender, and winking.
About Wo Chan
Wo Chan, who performs as The Illustrious Pearl, is a poet and drag artist. They are a winner of the Nightboat Poetry Prize and the author of Togetherness (2022). Wo has received fellowships from MacDowell, New York Foundation of the Arts, Kundiman, The Asian American Writers Workshop, Poets House, and Lambda Literary. Their poems appear in POETRY, WUSSY, Mass Review, No Tokens, The Margins, and elsewhere. As a member of the Brooklyn-based drag/burlesque collective Switch N’ Play, Wo has performed at venues including The Whitney Museum of American Art, National Sawdust, New York Live Arts, and the Architectural Digest Expo. Find them at @theillustriouspearl.
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