Colorado author Teow Lim Goh blends fact and fiction, politics and intimacy in her chronicle of a forgotten episode in American history. Join Teow Lim Goh at any of the following events listed below to hear poems from her moving new collection of poetry Islanders. You can pick up a copy of Goh’s debut collection on our website.
Published exclusively on our press website in May, Islanders is an imagining of some of the most important and heartbreaking stories in history, of Chinese immigrant women who were detained for years between 1910 and 1940 at the Angel Island Immigration Station in San Francisco, California. Many of the poems scrawled on the walls of the men’s barracks have been recorded and preserved. The words the women wrote were lost in a fire. Islanders also tells the stories of their families on shore, the staff at Angel Island, and the 1877 San Francisco Chinatown Riot.
You can read more about the collection here. Islanders will also be available from booksellers on July 12.
The following readings and signing events are all free and open to the public:
Saturday, May 21, 2016, 6:00 p.m. | Denver, CO
Book Launch Party for Islanders
Lighthouse Writers Workshop Grotto
1515 Race Street, Denver, CO
Reception, reading at 6:30 p.m., and book signing to follow.
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Saturday, May 28, 2016, 5:00 p.m. | Denver, CO
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Celebration
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
1515 Race Street, Denver, CO
Performance, reception, and reading.
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Saturday, June 4, 2016, 5:30 p.m. | Denver, CO
First Saturday Poetry Series
BookBar
4280 Tennyson Street, Denver, CO
Reading with Raza Ali Hasan. Happy hour at 4:30 p.m.
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Saturday, June 11, 2016, 2:00 p.m. | Boulder, CO
Lost Voices Found
Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe
1301 Pennsylvania Avenue, Boulder, CO
Reading with Kierstin Bridger. A conversation on writing poetry and reclaiming lost histories to follow.
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Monday, June 13, 2016, 4:00 p.m. | Denver, CO
Speakeasy Reading: Stunning Debuts
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
1515 Race Street, Denver, CO
Lit Fest Reading with Sheree Brown, Madelyn Garner, Kierstin Bridger, and Roger Wehling.
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Article created by Patricia McCrystal, an editorial contributor for Conundrum Press. Golden, Colorado-based Conundrum Press publishes fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction, focusing primarily on authors who live in the Rocky Mountain region. We are committed to their success.
