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*OFFSITE* Author Achy Obejas Interviews Yiyun Li @ the Harold Washington Library Chicago writer Achy Obejas interviews Yiyun Li about her life work and the inspiration behind the intimate stories in Gold boy, emerald girl. Location: Street: 400 S. State St. City: Chicago, Province: Illinois Postal Code: 60605 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)
Achy Obejas Achy Obejas signs Ruins. When the Cuban Revolution triumphed in 1959, Usnavy was just a young man and eagerly signed on for all of its promises. As a true believer, he is faced with the choice between the Revolution and his love for his family. (archaism)
Book Release Party Achy Obejas reads from Ruins. Ruins is set in Havana during the tumultuous summer of 1994, when the government allows Cubans to leave the country on anything that floats and more than 100,000 Cubans flee. At the story’s center is Usnavy, a true believer of the Cuban revolution, who must choose between his family and the dream he has staked his life on, while the city, and his ideals, crumble around him. “Daring, tough, and deeply compassionate, Achy Obejas’s Ruins is a breathtaker.” –Junot Diaz (TerrierGirl)… (more)
Lesbian Poetry Celebration Achy Obejas , This Is What Happened in Our Other Life. Featuring Achy Obejas, Ching-In Chen, Nickole Brown, Tamiko Beyer Emerging and established lesbian poets come together for tonight’s event, celebrating the present and future of the lesbian poetic tradition. Chicagoan Obejas (Ruins, Days of Awe) will read from her recent poetry release, This is What Happened in Our Other Life, Chen is celebrating the release of her novel-in-poems, The Heart’s Traffic. Nickole Brown, an NEA fellow, will read from her collection, Sister, and Tamiko Beyer’s work has been featured in many journals, including The Crab Orchard Review and the Gay and Lesbian Review. Refreshments will be served. (booksense)… (more)
2008 Chicago Humanities Festival: "Queer Lyrics" with MARK DOTY and ACHY OBEJAS MARK DOTY discusses Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems.; ACHY OBEJAS discusses Ruins. (NOTE: Tickets $5.00 EA / FREE for Educators & Students) DESCRIPTION: Lambda Literary Award–winning authors Doty and Obejas will read from and discuss their latest work. Doty, the celebrated poet and memoirist, has written movingly on love and loss in modern gay life. Obejas, an esteemed Chicago-based journalist, novelist, and translator, writes about the tension between public identity and private experience in the United States and her native Cuba.
Both will address the question: how do writers grapple with questions of social, political, and cultural resonance surrounding the LGBTQ experience? C. C. Carter, Lambda Literary Finalist for Best Lesbian Poetry and director of community and culture for the Center on Halsted, will moderate.
Generously sponsored by The Poetry Foundation and presented in partnership with the Center on Halsted (bookjones)… (more)
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Canonical name | | Legal name | | Other names | | Date of birth | | Date of death | | Burial location | | Gender | | Nationality | | Country (for map) | | Birthplace | | Place of death | | Cause of death | | Places of residence | | Education | | Occupations | | Relationships | | Organizations | | Awards and honors | | Agents | | Short biography | Achy Obejas was born in Havana, Cuba, and emigrated with her parents to the USA at age six, after after the Cuban revolution. She grew up in Michigan City, Indiana, and attended Indiana University. In 1979, she moved to Chicago, where she worked for the Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago Reader. She has also written for The Windy City Times, The Advocate, High Performance, and The Village Voice. She became a cultural writer for the Chicago Tribune in 1991. She has also been a freelance entertainment writer. Her poetry has appeared in a number of journals, including Conditions, Revista Chicano-Rique, and The Beloit Poetry Journal. Her short stories have also been widely published in journals and anthologies. Her novels include We Came All the Way from Cuba So You Could Dress Like This? (1994) and Memory Mambo (1996). The Cuba of her imagination has appeared throughout her works, and she revisited Cuba at age 39. She has served as a writer-in-residence at Yaddo, Ragdale, the Virginia Center for the Arts, and the University of Hawaii. She is the Sor Juana visiting writer at DePaul University, a position she has held since 2006. She also writes a blog called Citylife: Adventures in Urban Living for Chicago Public Media.  | |
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