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Sundays at the Blake School Reading Series Presents
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Sun Yung Shin and Gregg Hewett
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The final event in this year's Sundays at the Blake School Reading Series will take place outside in the Philip Otis Courtyard at the Northrop Campus of the Blake School. It features poets Sun Yung Shin and Gregg Hewett and will take place on Sunday, May 6, at 2 o'clock. The performance is free and open to the public, and there is free parking at the school.
The Northrop Campus of the Blake School (also known as the Upper School) is located at 511 Kenwood Parkway, two blocks west of the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden.
Sun Yung Shin's first book of poems, Skirt Full of Black, employs techniques of investigative poetics and collage to uncover the disparities inherent in a bi-cultural childhood. Shin blends her cultural dualities with an activist's spirit to create a new language for traversing the minefields of identity.
Greg Hewett is an assistant professor at Carlton College in Northfield, MN. Carolyn Forché describes Greg Hewett's latest book, The Eros Conspiracy, as "an urbane, sophisticated meditation on sexuality, politics, and history. Hewett's poetic tableau assembles Karl Marx, Michelangelo, Marlon Brando, Paul Klee, Dante, Zhou Enlai, Homer, Leonardo da Vinci, Frida Kahlo, Marilyn Monroe and a host of others, who animate his fanciful but deeply serious consideration of the idea of revolution in art and thought."
Of Red Suburb, Greg Hewett's first book, Jonis Agee Spring writes: "this is the gay voice we've been waiting for — one that has the confidence, wit, and intelligence to write truthfully and comfortably about love and life, refusing to separate experiences into parts of the self, demanding that he must give and take it all to know himself, to make himself known."
The Blake School is an independent, pre-kindergarten through grade 12 school located on three campuses in the Minneapolis metropolitan area.The Blake School provides students with an excellent, academically challenging education in a diverse and supportive community.
Contact: Jefferson Hansen: 952 988 3790
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