/Literary Arts
Brandon Shimoda with Emily Luan
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Brandon Shimoda reads from Hydra Medusa published by Nightboat Books and Emily Luan reads from In 回 / Return – Published by Nightboat Books
SF/Arts Curator Insight
City Lights hosts a virtual event with poets Brandon Shimoda (“Hydra Medusa”) and Emily Luan (“回 / Return”), both just published by Nightboat Books. Shimoda’s memoir and book of mourning “The Grave on the Wall” (City Lights, 2019) received the 2020 PEN Open Book Award. “In “回 / Return”, Emily Lee Luan’s stunning reflections on sorrow haunt the sensorium” (Cathy Park Hong). Shimoda teaches at Colorado College; Luan lives in New York City.
Evan Karp
SF/Arts Curator
City Lights Bookstore
Founded in 1953 by poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Peter D. Martin, City Lights is one of the few truly great independent bookstores in the United States.
Founded in 1953 by poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Peter D. Martin, City Lights is one of the few truly great independent bookstores in the United States.