AAWW_MMM

AAWW is at 16 w. 32nd St. NY, NY

Celebrate Many Mountains Moving: A Literary Journal of Diverse Contemporary Voices, with some of its editors and contributors. Jeffrey Ethan Lee, Pedro Ponce, Renato Rosaldo, Thaddeus Rutkowski and Purvi Shah will read poetry and prose selections from recent issues, as well as their own work. MMM was founded by Naomi Horii in 1994 and quickly achieved national recognition. The editors took chances on works that were exciting, brilliant, eccentric, courageous and heartfelt, by unknown and famous writers of all kinds. Work from the journal has appeared in The Best American Poetry and in Pushcart Prize anthologies. This evening's reading will showcase a range of work from recent issues.

Thaddeus Rutkowski, current fiction editor of Many Mountains Moving, is the author of the novels Tetched and Roughhouse. Both books were finalists for an Asian American Literary Award. His stories and poems have been nominated four times for a Pushcart Prize. He teaches fiction writing at the Writer's Voice of the West Side YMCA in Manhattan.

Jeffrey Ethan Lee is the senior poetry editor for Many Mountains Moving. Lee's poetry book, identity papers, a 2006 Colorado Book Award finalist, is available from Ghost Road Press. Visit http://www.identitypapers.org. His first poetry book, invisible sister was published by Many Mountains Moving Press, 2004. Lee won the 2002 Sow's Ear Poetry Chapbook prize ($1,000) for The Sylf (2003), created identity papers for Drimala Records, published Strangers in a Homeland (chapbook with Ashland Poetry Press, 2001), and published hundreds of poems, stories and essays in Many Mountains Moving, Xconnect, Crab Orchard Review, Crazyhorse, Washington Square. He has a Ph.D. in British Romanticism and an MFA from NYU. His new blog link is here.

Pedro Ponce teaches fiction writing and contemporary American literature at St. Lawrence University. He is the author of Superstitions of Apartment Life, a chapbook of short fictions (Burnside Review Press) and numerous stories featured in Ploughshares, The Beacon Best of 2001 (edited by Junot Diaz), Hotel St. George, Sleepingfish, DIAGRAM, Quick Fiction, and other publications. He is the recipient of an AWP Intro Journals Project award and a Tara Fellowship for Short Fiction.

Renato Rosaldo writes in English and Spanish. His first book of poetry, Prayer to Spider Woman/Rezo a la mujer araña received an American Book Award, 2004. Individual poems have won the El Andar poetry contest, 2000, and the Many Mountains Moving poetry contest, 2005. As a cultural anthropologist at New York University, he is the author of Culture and Truth.

Purvi Shah's first book of poetry, Terrain Tracks (New Rivers Press 2006), won a Many Voices Project prize. Her poetry has been recognized in Asian American and feminist communities and is a counterpart to her social justice advocacy. She serves as Executive Director of Sakhi for South Asian Women, an organization based in New York City which works to end violence against women, and is a board member of the New York Women's Foundation, a cross-cultural alliance of women helping women funding change. Shah, who earned a Master's in English from Rutgers University, was recently awarded with a Social Service Achiever of the Year Award from the South Asian Excellence Awards.