Saturday, November 21, 2009 - Myung Mi Kim and Barbara Henning - 7 PM, The Drawing Studio (map), 33 S. Sixth Avenue, Tucson. $5 admission, $3 students

Myung Mi Kim and her family emigrated to the United States following the Korean War, when Kim was 9 years old. She holds a Masters of Fine Arts from the University of Iowa and lectured for some years on creative writing at the San Francisco State University. She is currently Professor of English at the University at Buffalo.

"Myung Mi Kim is a model writer, one who actively and unapologetically thinks through and with the world in her poetry. Less interested in a turn of phrase or some impossible sublimity, her work seeks out the “live kicking wire” in the form of the project itself."
Sueyeun Juliette Lee

Myung Mi Kim at EPC Buffalo
Myung Mi Kim at PennSound
Myung Mi Kim at Amazon.com

Barbara Henning is the author of three novels, seven books of poetry and a series of photo-poem pamphlets. Her most recent books are a novel, Thirty Miles from Rosebud (BlazeVOX, 2009) and a collection of object-sonnets, My Autobiography (United Artists, 2007). A collection of poetry and prose, Cities & Memory, is forthcoming from Chax Press. Recent publications in Jacket Magazine, Flash Forward, Zen Monster, Downtown Brooklyn, Live Mag, House Organ and Eoagh. Barbara is Professor Emerita at Long Island University and presently teaching for Naropa University, as well as LIU and the University of Arizona in Tucson.

"Whether in prose or poetry, Barbara Henning's formal inventiveness has given her apparently autobiographical material a power never found in purely confessional writing. Her vision of an unreasonable world (our very own) is very intelligent, very intense, sometimes funny, always disturbing."
Harry Matthews

Barbara Henning's BLOG
Barbara Henning at PennSound
Barbara Henning at frankshome:an active anthology of verse
Barbara Henning's web page
Barbara Henning at Amazon.com