Drop Leaf Press invites you to celebrate the release of ALL OF IT, TINGED, a curated juxtaposition of the photography of Asako Shimazaki and the writing of Diana Fisher. Shimazaki’s quietly charged images from her solo wanderings across Northern Japan reflect and inflect Fisher’s diligent poetic narrative about a novitiate and her convent absorbing the results of a catastrophic national election. Supporting our featured reader, Diana Fisher, will be poems by Jennifer S. Cheng and an introduction to the book by Heidi Van Horn, editor, and Janet Bishop, Chief Curator at SFMOMA.

Following the reading, we invite you to join us for a 45-minute Post-Inauguration Talking Circle. In the vein of ALL OF IT, TINGED, this will be a facilitated safe space for anyone who wants to share how they are processing the impact of the recent election and the transition of power. All feelings welcome! <3

In this participatory ritual, you are invited to join in offerings of language, letters, food, and kinship between poets Jennifer S. Cheng, Monica Sok, and Muriel Leung. In invoking a communal space of poetry and care, we hope to acknowledge the connection between making art, politics, and the intimacies of Asian American friendships. You are welcome to share space and, if you wish, to participate alongside as we offer up these blended rituals as a version of a hybrid art practice.

https://www.kearnystreet.org/for-you-i-make-this-offering

Hosted by Kearny Street Workshop & Jennifer S. Cheng. This event is made possible through an individual artist grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission.

This year I am the feature artist for the literary showcase of APAture, an Asian Pacific American arts festival, co-presented by Kearny Street Workshop, Litquake 2019 and the Asian American Women Artists Association.