The English department will host a reading by Debra Kang Dean from her recent book Fugitive Blues on Friday, Sept. 26 at 7:00 p.m., and she will be available afterward for book signing. The event, located at the Robert W. Theater in Plaster Student Union, is free and open to the public.
About the book
Fugitive Blues, a Moon City Press publication, is a collection of poetry described by fellow author Sarah Freligh as “at once small and large, honoring the ordinary even as they consider the ontological.”
About the author
Dean has published three collections of poetry: Back to Back, which won the Harperprints Poetry Chapbook Competition, judged by Ruth Stone; News of Home, which was co-winner of the New England Poetry Club’s Sheila Margaret Motton Award, and Precipitates.
Her work has also appeared in many journals and a number of anthologies, including The Best American Poetry 1999, The New American Poets: A Bread Loaf Anthology, Urban Nature: Poems about Wildlife in the City, and Yobo: Korean American Writing in Hawai‘i.
She is on the faculty of the Spalding University brief-residency Master of Fine Arts in Writing Program, teaches online through the UCLA Extension School’s Writers’ Program, and is a contributing editor for Tar River Poetry.