Asian American Writers' Workshop & Cave Canem Present: Robin Coste Lewis, Metta Sama, Tamiko Beyer, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge April 5, 2012

Join us for our sixth annual collaboration between Asian American Writers' Workshop and Cave Canem featuring the dynamic talent from four all-star female poets! Winner of two American Book Awards, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge molds language with her keen sensibility for visual art. Characteristic of her style is a lush mix of abstract language, collaged images, cultural and political investigation, and unexpected shifts between the meditative and the particular. Tamiko Beyer’s work work engages with ideas of gender, motherhood, conception, and nature, towards a "queer eco-poetics." Robin Coste Lewis’s work explores political trauma, migration, fragmentation, and the resilience and loss of the body. A poet, visual artist, story maker and scholar, Metta Sáma's poetry collections explore themes ranging from parasitic invasions and the nature of bodily disintegration as poetic practice, to the loves and lives of African Americans in the 1930s-1960s.

This event is co-hosted and co-curated by Kyla Marshall and Muriel Leung.

Official Website: http://www.aaww.org/#5apr12