Hello Everyone:
Poet Mei-mei Berssenbrugge has been added to the
reading at the United Nations on Thursday, March 29
from 7:30 pm to 9pm. The reading will also feature
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa and poet
and writer Joyce Carol Oates and James Ragan. Free
tickets are available at http://www.dialoguepoetry.org
Below is her bio.
Cheers,
Ram Devineni
Program Coordinator
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge was born in Beijing in 1947 and
grew up in Massachusetts. Her books include The Heat
Bird (Burning Deck), Empathy (Station Hill),
Sphericity and Four Year Old Girl (Kelsey Street). Her
collaborations include artist books with Richard
Tuttle and Kiki Smith, and theatre works with Frank
Chin, Blondell Cummings, Tan Dun, Shi Zhen Chen and
Alvin Lucier. She has received two NEA Fellowships,
two American Book Awards, and book awards this year
from the Asian-American Writers Workshop and the
Western States Art Foundation. She has been a
contributing editor of Conjunctions Magazine since
1978, and has taught at Brown University and the
Institute of American Indian Arts. Having lived in
rural New Mexico for twenty-five years, she now also
lives in New York City, with artist Richard Tuttle and
their daughter.
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