The Switch is super excited to host a special event at the Radio Room featuring readings by Jamalieh Haley and Stacey Tran in conjunction with an exhibit of visual art by Yukiyo Kawano.
When: Wednesday, April 22, 7 pm sharp
Where: Radio Room, 1101 NE Alberta, PDX
Jamalieh Haley lives in Portland, Oregon where she co-curates
If Not For Kidnap and teaches writing and literature. Her work has appeared in
Interrupture,
Sink Review,
Everyday Genius,
Sixth Finch,
Plinth and she is the author of
Strange Tarot (Poor Claudia, 2014).
Yukiyo Kawano, a third generation hibakusha (nuclear bomb survivor) grew up decades after the bombing of Hiroshima. Her work is personal, reflecting lasting attitudes towards the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Kawano’s main focus is her/our forgetfulness, her/our dialectics of memory, issues around cultural politics, and historical politics. She has an MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts, is the recipient of numerous grants, and has exhibited her work in the U.S. and Japan.
Stacey Tran is a curator of a performance series,
Pure Surface, and an editor of a small press publisher,
Poor Claudia. Her poems have appeared in
The Curator,
Imperial Matters,
BOAAT,
The Volta, and other publications online and in print. She lives and works in Portland, OR.
