Siegell and Vuong in Fox Chase June 26th

June 26th @ 2pm – The Fox Chase Reading Series presents The Featured Poets Reading at Ryerss Museum and Library, 7370 Central Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa. 19111. Join us for the poetry of Paul Siegell and Ocearn Vuong followed by an open mic

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Ocean Vuong emigrated to the U.S. in 1990 at the age of one and is currently an undergraduate student at Brooklyn
College, CUNY. His poems have been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes and appear or are forthcoming in the Connecticut River Review, Word Riot, PANK, Asian American Poetry and SOFTBLOW among others. He is also a volunteer writer for the Vietnam Literature Project in the aspiration to support and promote the works of Vietnamese authors. He enjoys going streaking in cornfields and practicing Zen Mediation. He lives with an 84 year old roommate in Brooklyn, New York. You can read the poetry of Ocean Vuong in The Fox Chase Review at this link: http://www.foxchasereview.org/10SU/OceanVuong.html

Paul Siegell is the author of jambandbootleg (A-Head, 2009), Poemergency Room (Otoliths Books, 2008) and the forthcoming wild life rifle fire (Otoliths Books, 2009). He is a staff editor at Painted Bride Quarterly, and has contributed to The American Poetry Review, BlazeVOX, Coconut, Rattle and other fine journals. Paul has also been featured in the Philadelphia City Paper, Paste Magazine, Relix Magazine and Bookslut. Kindly find more of Paul’s work at ReVeLeR@ eYeLeVeL. You can read the poetry of Paul Siegell in The Fox Chase Review at this link: http://www.foxchasereview.org/10WS/SiegellP.html