Red Hen Press at Annenberg Community Beach House

Red Hen Press, one of the few literary presses in the LA area, is collaborating with Poetry Society of America to bring together another exciting combination of West and East Coast poets whose sensibilities and language hover between the erotic and the everywhere, where all great stories meet.

Tuesday, July 7th, 6:30 pm

415 Pacific Coast Hwy, Santa Monica, CA 90402

Parking at the beach house is $3/hour ($5 after 5PM) & $12/day

(310) 458-8350

Meet our readers:

Brynn Saito is the author of The Palace of Contemplating Departure (Red Hen Press, 2013), winner of the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award from Red Hen Press and finalist for the 2013 Northern California Book Award. Her second book of poems, Power Made Us Swoon, will be published by Red Hen Press in 2016. Born and raised in Fresno, CA, Brynn currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Both a Cave Canem and Poets House alumna, Mahogany L. Browne is the Poetry Program Director of the Nuyorican Poets Café, an MFA Candidate for Writing & Activism at Pratt Institute, an activist, publisher, and educator. Browne is the author of the booksSmudge (Button Poetry, 2015), Redbone (Willow Books, 2015), and Dear Twitter(Penmanship, 2010).

Richard Siken is a poet, painter, and filmmaker. His poetry collection Crush (Yale University Press, 2005) won the 2004 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize, a Lambda Literary Award, the Thom Gunn Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His second book, War of the Foxes, was recently released from Copper Canyon Press in April 2015.

Born and raised in the Bronx, Charif Shanahan studied poetry at Princeton University, Dartmouth College, and New York University, where he earned his MFA. He works as Programs Director of the Poetry Society of America and as poetry editor of Psychology Tomorrow Magazine.