New & Selected Works
Thursday, April 6
7pm
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Join Angela Peñaredondo as they launch their new book nature felt but never apprehended from Noemi Press, with co-readers Jessica Abughattas, Jos Charles, Jen/Eleana Hofer, and Jason Magabo Perez.
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Angela Peñaredondo is a queer, nonbinary Filipinx writer and author of nature felt but never apprehended (Noemi Press), All Things Lose Thousands of Times (winner of an Inlandia Institute’s Hillary Gravendyk Book Prize) and the chapbook Maroon (Jamii Publishing). An interdisciplinary writer, artist and educator, their work can be found in The Academy of American Poets, Pleiades, Apogee Journal, Michigan Quarterly and elsewhere. They are a recipient of fellowships to Hedgebrook, Kundiman, Macondo, the Community of Writers and others. They are an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at California State University, San Bernardino. More information: @domainedenarhwal, www.angelapenaredondo.com
Jessica Abughattas grew up in Southern California. She is the author of Strip (University of Arkansas Press, 2020), which was selected by Fady Joudah and Hayan Charara for the 2020 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize. Her short poetry film “Dinner Party” premiered at Mizna Twin Cities Film Festival in 2021, was a finalist for Palette Poetry’s Brush and Lyre Prize, and appeared at RAWI Fest. From 2020 to 2022, she was the Poet Laureate of Altadena, California and editor of Altadena Poetry Review. She’s writing a second poetry collection in LA.
Jos Charles is author of the poetry collections a Year & other poems (Milkweed Editions, 2022), feeld, a Pulitzer-finalist and winner of the 2017 National Poetry Series selected by Fady Joudah (Milkweed Editions, 2018), and Safe Space (Ahsahta Press, 2016). She is visiting faculty for UC RIverside’s Creative Writing Department and teaches as a part of Randolph College's low-residency MFA program. She resides in Long Beach, CA.
Jen/Eleana Hofer is a poet, translator, social justice interpreter, teacher, facilitator, and urban cyclist. They live on unceded Tongva land in Los Angeles, where they teach writing and translation, work as Sins Invalid’s Language Justice Coordinator, and do language justice advocacy and organizing. They have received support from many entities, including CantoMundo, the Academy of American Poets, the City of Los Angeles, the NEA, and PEN American Center. Jen/Eleana publishes with numerous small independent presses and in various DIY/DIT incarnations. Excerpts from their most recent project, unremembering are at Map Magazine. More information: https://www.channeltransmitrepeat.com.
Jason Magabo Perez serves as San Diego Poet Laureate 2023-24. Perez is the author of Phenomenology of Superhero (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2016) and This is for the mostless (WordTech Editions, 2017). Perez's work has also appeared in Witness, The Feminist Wire, Entropy, Marías at Sampaguitas, Interim, among others. VONA alumnus, previous recipient of a NEA Challenge America Grant, previous Artist-in-Residence at the Center for Art and Thought, Perez has been a featured performer at notable venues such as the National Asian American Theatre Festival, International Conference of the Philippines, San Francisco Public Library, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, and La Jolla Playhouse. Perez is an Associate Editor of Ethnic Studies Review, Community Arts Fellow at Bulosan Center for Filipino Studies, and a core organizer with The Digital Sala. Currently, Perez is an Associate Professor and Director of Ethnic Studies at California State University San Marcos.