Friday, September 19th, 2008
at the CRANE ARTS COMMUNITY SPACE

inside The Crane Arts Building at 1400 N. American St. (two blocks north of Girard Ave. between 2nd & 3rd streets)

Featuring:
DAWN-MICHELLE BAUDE (Poet, New York)
LINH DINH (Poet & Fiction Writer, Philadelphia)
RINI YUN KEAGY (Filmmaker, Philadelphia)


DAWN-MICHELLE BAUDE, a Senior Fulbright Scholar, is the author of several volumes of poetry, including Gaffiot Exquis (1997), The Book of One Hand (1998), The Beirut Poems (2001), Egypt (2002), and Through a Membrane / Clouds (2006). She earned an MA from the New College of California, an MFA from Mills College, a Diplôme des etudes approndis in Shakespeare from the Sorbonne, and a PhD in English from the University of Illinois - Chicago. She teaches in the U.S. and in Europe.

A recipient of the Pew Foundation grant as a poet and fiction writer, LINH DINH is the author of four books of poems and two collections of stories, including Blood and Soap, which was one of The Village Voice's Best Books of 2004. He is also the editor of two anthologies of Vietnamese writers and poets.

RINI YUN KEAGY was raised by her Guatemalan-born father, a farmer, cattle-herder and Vietnam War veteran, and was also influenced by her Korean-born mother, a vegan nurse. She holds an MFA from Temple University's Film & Media Arts program and currently is a Lecturer in the Media Arts department at University of the Arts. Rini has taught documentary video to high school students in Havana, Cuba, and was awarded a fellowship to attend the 2007 Robert Flaherty Film Seminar. Rini's film work seeks to 'document' and articulate the surreal in the experience of class and multi-ethnicity in America. In post-production is her MFA thesis film – a cine-essay exploring the philosophical concept of 'sloth' in the 21st century lives of young Cambodian-Americans in Philadelphia. Inspired by one of the 'social actors' of the film who is enamored by sloths, the film is a sometimes whimsical approach to the restlessness of contemporary modernity against a backdrop of a haunted history.