Saturday, March 16th, 3:00pm -- A Poetry Reading with Lynn Xu, Farnoosh Fathi, and Joshua Edwards

Orca is excited to welcome Lynn Xu, Farnoosh Fathi and Joshua Edwards to the store this Saturday.  These three gifted poets will be stopping in Olympia as part of their West Coast tour.

Lynn Xu was born in Shanghai. Her poems have appeared in 6x6, 1913, Best American Poetry 2008, Boston Review,Octopus, Poor Claudia, and others.  A chapbook, June, was published by Corollary Press in 2006 and her first book, Debts & Lessons, will be published by Omnidawn in spring 2013. She co-edits Canarium Books.

Joshua Edwards directs and co-edits Canarium Books. He's the author of Imperial Nostalgias (Ugly Duckling, 2013) and Campeche (Noemi, 2011), and the translator of Mexican poet María Baranda's Ficticia (Shearsman, 2010). Currently a fellow at the Akademie Schloss Solitude, he divides his time between Stuttgart, Germany and Marfa, Texas.

Farnoosh Fathi's first book, Great Guns, will be out from Canarium Books in spring 2013. Her work has also appeared in Boston Review, Fence, Everyday Genius, Poetry, Jacket2, and elsewhere. She lives in Oakland, California.

Event date: 
Saturday, March 16, 2013 - 3:00pm
Event address: 
509 E 4th Ave
98501 Olympia
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Debts & Lessons By Lynn Xu Cover Image
By Lynn Xu
$17.95
Book may be unavailable or out of print. Please email or call for more information.
ISBN: 9781890650803
Published: Omnidawn - April 1st, 2013

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