Telling the (Whole) Story:
Celebrating Writers of Color
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When: Monday, December 5
Where: Donnell Library Center: 20 West 53rd St., NYC
What Time: 7 p.m.
Paul Auster and Elizabeth Nunez hosted an evening of readings and
discussion, saluting the winners of the 2005 PEN/Beyond Margins Award. Joining in the celebration were writers Esmeralda Santiago and Colin
Channer.
The event included readings from winning works, followed by a
panel discussion on the creative life, its challenges and rewards, as
experienced by these rising talents.
This event is free and open to the public, but space will be
limited. Please RSVP by phone to (212) 334-1660, ext. 111, or by e-mail.
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The PEN/Beyond Margins Awards recognize as many as five writers of color for their
outstanding works published in the previous year. This year’s
winners include:
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Faith Adiele, for her memoir Meeting Faith, The Forest Journals
of a Black Buddhist Nun:
"'Faith's blackness never even occurred to me until I was waiting
there in the hall
and noticed that every other applicant was white.'"
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Esmeralda
Santiago reads from "Stripping," the preface of Meeting
Faith: The Forest Journals of a Black Buddhist Nun |
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Raquel Cepeda, for her anthology And It Don’t Stop: The Best
American Hip-Hop Journalism of the Last 25 Years
"That force, later christened hip-hop, was spawned from New York
City's concrete jungles in the 1970s to become the ultimate expression of
black youth resistance to poverty and oppression.
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Colin
Channer reads from the introduction of And It Don't Stop: The Best
American Hip-Hop Journalism of the Last 25 Years |
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Lan Samantha Chang, for her novel Inheritance
"She lay immobile, furious; although her mind was as relentless
as a bamboo trap, her body had failed her once
again."
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Esmeralda
Santiago reads from the "Occupation" section of Inheritance |
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Lolita Hernandez, for her short-story collection Autopsy of an
Engine and other Stories from the Cadillac Plant
"She wondered why the foreman was nowhere to be seen when the
engine fell off the line but told herself 'better for us.'"
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Colin
Channer reads from "Jumbie Jamboree," from Autopsy of an
Engine and Other Stories from the Cadillac Plant |
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Ishle Yi Park, for her poetry and prose collection The Temperature
of This Water
"She smokes Kent 100s in
closets and basements and empty cars. Her hands heal; she has healing
hands."
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Esmeralda
Santiago reads from "Anatomy of a Fish Store" from The Temperature
of This Water |
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