We are honored to be hosting Tea and we think this is the perfect way to celebrate Pride. We wanted to give our followers a little primer on what to expect.
D.A. Powell writes of contemporary culture (popped and otherwise) and his first three books- Tea, Lunch and Cocktails- are a stunning trilogy on AIDS. His work has won all the awards and he’s taught at all the places. In addition to serving as the Briggs-Copeland Lecturer at Harvard, Powell has won the Lyric Poetry Award, the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and a Paul Engle Fellowship. His second collection, Lunch, was a finalist for the National Poetry Series, and his book Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys (2012) won the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry. Four days ago on Twitter, Powell posed the question, “Is there a sex act called glazed ham?” We mention this because you can expect humor, inquiry, and creativity everywhere he goes. Powell is a local to our region, in the not so distant past he’s called Santa Rosa home and taught at Sonoma State. He has roots HERE.
We are pleased to have Jacques Rancourt back for his second Books & Barns event! Set in San Francisco, his collection Brocken Spectre examines the way the past presses up against the present. The speaker, raised in the wake of the AIDS crisis, engages with ideas of belatedness, of looking back to a past that cannot be inhabited, of the ethics of memory, and of the dangers in memorializing and romanticizing tragedy. Ocean Vuong says of Rancourt’s work, “Harnessing new visions from the traditions of Mark Doty and James L. White, Rancourt crystalizes the modern sublime through intelligent, complicated, and elegiac modes of inquiry through the plights and heights of the human body.” Has Rancourt won all the awards? Yes! Under his belt are a Wallace Stegner fellowship, a Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing fellowship, and residencies from the Cité internationale des arts, Monson Arts, and Sitka Center for the Arts and Ecology. He lives and teaches in San Francisco and GUERNEVILLE!
Chris & Adrian Lewis-Chang are the husband-and-husband team and founders of Two Trees Tea House. One hot Summer’s evening, they met and fell in love in Tokyo. After a decade of making Japan their home, they followed each other around the Asian continent from Singapore, to Malaysia to Sri Lanka. Every step of the way, tea was by their side. Nearly 15 years later, they would find themselves married and in the redwood forests of Occidental in West Sonoma County, California. This is where Two Trees Tea House was born.
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