June 14: Switchback Books reading

Switchback Books
*presents*
Cathy Park Hong & Jennifer Tamayo
Reading & Book Launch for Jennifer Tamayo's [Red Missed Aches]
**Books will be for sale!**
6pm : : Pete's Candy Store : : 709 Lorimer St. : : Williamsburg : : Brooklyn




Cathy Park Hong's first book, Translating Mo'um was published in 2002 by Hanging Loose Press. Her second collection, Dance Dance Revolution, was chosen for the Barnard Women Poets Prize and was published in 2007 by W.W. Norton. The recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Hong is an Assistant Professor at Sarah Lawrence College.

A writer, artist, & performer, Jennifer Tamayo is slowly becoming a human being. Her first book Red Missed Aches, Read Missed Aches, Red Mistakes, Read Mistakes was selected by Cathy Park Hong for the 2010 Gatewood Prize from Switchback Books. JT's art & writing have most recently appeared or are forthcoming in Delirious Hem, Futurepost, The New Delta Review, Contrappostos, and Jacket2. She is the Managing Editor at Futurepoem and teaches art and poetry to students in Harlem.

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