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Siel Ju’s publications and events

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3 Birthday readings and cupcakes

cupcakes

Friends —

Instead of a birthday party, I’m having birthday readings! They’re actually just regular readings — meaning the organizers didn’t specifically plan the events to celebrate my birthday — but maybe they sort of intuitively did, because I happen to be giving three readings right around Nov. 1.

So — Celebrate my birthday with me by coming to a reading or three. There will be cupcakes! And my chapbooks. And me.

Kaya Press Reading
Wed, November 4, 2015, 7:30 pm
Stories Books & Cafe, 1716 W. Sunset Blvd., Echo Park, Los Angeles, CA

Dancing Girl Press reading at Roar Shack
Sun, November 8, 2015, 4 pm – 5:30 pm
826LA, 1714 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles

The Los Angeles Review Reading
Thu., November 12, 2015, 7 pm
Flintridge Bookstore & Coffee House, 1010 Foothill Blvd., La Cañada Flintridge, CA

Hope to see you soon —

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I’m Reading at Rhapsodomancy March 21

Come to the first Rhapsodomancy reading of the year!

I’ll be reading with poet and translator Jen Hofer. In addition to reading, we’ll be chatting about connections and disconnections — You can read a bit more about what’ll be happening on Rhapsodomancy’s website.

When: Saturday, March 21, 2015, 8 pm – 10 pm
Where: Writ Large Press HQ, 722 S. Los Angeles St. #312, Los Angeles

Make sure you RSVP on Facebook because you’ll need a phone number — disclosed on the day of the event — to get in. There will be some snacks, a cash bar for beer and wine, and me. Hope to see you there.

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Two poems in Gargoyle

gar62My copy of Gargoyle #62 finally arrived in my mailbox — after a little detour to my former apartment. Thanks to the postal service for sending it on!

The 394-page thick issue has within its covers two poems of mine: “A Reading” and “A Drinking Solo.” Here are three lines from a poem:

Water under the ridge, I say. It’s a day
when the news fills with familiar
terrors: suicide, parricide, coincide.

The issue — edited by Richard Peabody — also contains work by Nin Andrews, Thaisa Frank, and many many others. Pick up a copy at Gargoyle for about $20.

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Feelings Are Chemicals in Transit

Siel Ju Feelings Are Chemicals in Transit chapbookMy second chapbook, Feelings Are Chemicals in Transit, came out late last year from Dancing Girl Press!

You can read a sampling of the poems at Hobart, The Missouri Review, Pank, and other journals, where some of the poems in the chapbooks were originally published.

Based in Chicago, Dancing Girl Press publishes a chapbook series “to publish and promote the work of women writers and artists.” Other L.A.-based Dancing Girl poets include Lauren Eggert-Crowe (In the Songbird Laboratory) and Lisa Cheby (Love Lessons From Buffy the Vampire Slayer). The three of us plan to do a Dancing Girl reading in 2015 — so look out for us!

Get Feelings from Dancing Girl Press for $7.