Join us for a beautiful New Year celebration of diverse voices at the January 19th Sunday Salon, featuring four extraordinary writers and poets. Hailing from Canada, Michigan, California, and New York, these artists explore the complexities of identity, cultural heritage, and the transformative power of story and poetry. They invite us to reconsider the threads that connect us and question the stories that shape our lives. DJ DubSix returns to keep the energy flowing with the best beats. We hope to see you there! 5pm at Von Bar, 3 Bleecker St.
Jody Chan is a poet, care worker, and community organizer based in Toronto/Tkaronto. They are the author of two books of poetry, impact statement (Brick Books 2024) and sick (Black Lawrence Press 2020), finalist for the Lambda Literary and Pat Lowther Memorial Awards, and winner of the 2021 Trillium Award for Poetry. Jody is a member of the Daybreak Poets Collective and co-host with Sanna Wani of the podcast Poet Talk.
Saba Keramati is a Chinese-Iranian writer from the San Francisco Bay Area. Her debut poetry collection, Self-Mythology, was selected by Patricia Smith for publication in the Miller Williams Poetry Series at University of Arkansas Press, and is forthcoming in Spring 2024. A winner of the 2023 92NY Discovery Poetry Prize, Saba holds an MFA from UC Davis, where she was a Dean’s Graduate Fellow for Creative Arts. She is the Poetry Editor at Sundog Lit.
Rosa Kwon Easton is a Korean American lawyer, library trustee, and author of the debut novel, White Mulberry, an Amazon First Reads Editor’s Pick and a #1 Best Seller in Historical Fiction. It has been named a “Best Book” by Parade Magazine, BookBub, and Book Riot. Easton is an Anaphora Writing Residency Fellow, and her work has been published in CRAFT Literary, Electric Literature, Writer’s Digest and elsewhere. A graduate of Smith College, Columbia University, and Boston College Law School, she resides with her husband and Maltipoo in sunny Southern California. Her sequel, Red Seal, is due out in 2026.
As a writer and storyteller, Jennifer Tan (she/her) seeks to unearth the shame, guilt, and hardships that often surround immigrant working-class Asian communities, and make way for grief, compassion, and joy—displaying possibilities of triumph despite tragedy. Her work was selected for the Fiction Longlist in the DISQUIET literary prize for 2022 and 2023 and she was the prose runner-up in Brutal Nation, The Blueshift Journal’s Prizes for Writers of Color. She has received support from Atlantic Center for the Arts, Vermont Studio Center, The Seventh Wave Rhinebeck Residency, The Foundation House, and VONA/Voices. Her work appears in AAWW’s Open City Magazine, The Seventh Wave, and Newtown Literary. She is currently working on a novel about four friends who come of age in Queens, NY, where she grew up and currently resides.
This event is funded in part by Poets & Writers through public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.
