Kearny Street Workshop & SF Art Commission Chinatown Community Arts Program present

DESI VOICES: A Reading by South Asian American writers

with Summi Kaipa and Amarnath Ravva

WHAT: Kearny Street Workshop and CCAP collaborate on a free quarterly series of readings of work by Asian Pacific American writers. In 2002, KSW's 30th Anniversary year, we take a look at writers from the communities that are expanding the definition of "Asian Pacific American". In February we welcomed Pacific Islander American writers; in May we heard from Hapa or multiracial/multiethnic API writers; in August we will look at the work of South Asian writers.

WHO: Summi Kaipa graduated from the University of Iowa Writer¹s Workshop with an MFA in Poetry. She is currently the editor of Interlope, a magazine dedicated to publishing innovative Asian American writing

Amarnath Ravva- Is a poet and video maker living in the East Bay. He has published several poems in Interlope- a journal of Asian American poetics, Nocturnes, and Berkeley Poetry Review. He is currently working on a documentary about his ancestors in South India called Palani and will go to CalArts in the fall for an M.F.A. program in the School of Critical Studies.

Janice Hom, Manager
Chinatown Community Arts Program
750 Kearny Street, 3rd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94108
Office number 415-957-1146