kiss & release: A Reading with Anthony DiPietro and Chen Chen

In celebration of National Poetry Month and serving as a preamble to the Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Creative Arts at Brandeis, the Rose Art Museum presents kiss &amp; release: A Reading with Anthony DiPietro and Chen Chen.&nbsp; DiPietro, the Rose Art Museum’s Deputy Director of Operations, will be reading selections from his newly published debut collection&nbsp;<a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/kiss-release-anthony-dipietro/1144477567" target="_blank">kiss &amp; release</a>&nbsp;(Unsolicited Press, 2024). Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Diane Seuss called&nbsp;kiss &amp; release&nbsp;“a lovable and pleasurable book about love and pleasure.” A meditation in a rush, DiPietro’s poetry muses on how we end up in the same place over and over, even while forms, language, and communication decay.&nbsp; Called “fabulously self-aware and timely collection” (The Poetry Question), Chen Chen’s second book of poems,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.boaeditions.org/products/your-emergency-contact-has-experienced-an-emergency" target="_blank">Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency</a>&nbsp;(BOA Editions, 2022), was a finalist for the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize. It was also called a “best book of 2022” by&nbsp;The Boston Globe, Electric Lit, NPR, and others and was named a 2023 Notable Book by the American Library Association.&nbsp;With irrepressible humor and play, Chen Chen's anarchic poems celebrate life despite all that would crush aliveness.&nbsp; Space is limited; registration is required. &nbsp; <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe2momKHNTx8zOr0egSKtGNHC_7osndaJOkzGMmT9VM8wNGCg/viewform?usp=sf_link" target="_blank">REGISTER NOW</a> &nbsp; ABOUT THE POETS Chen Chen&nbsp;is a writer, teacher, and editor. His debut,&nbsp;When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities&nbsp;(BOA Editions, 2017), was longlisted for the 2017 National Book Award and won the Thom Gunn Award, among other honors. His work has appeared in many publications, including&nbsp;Poetry&nbsp;and three&nbsp;The Best American Poetry&nbsp;editions.&nbsp;He has received two Pushcart Prizes and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and United States Artists. He was named the 2018-2022 Jacob Ziskind Poet-in-Residence at Brandeis University and currently teaches for the Low-Residency MFA programs at New England College, Stonecoast, and Antioch.&nbsp; Anthony DiPietro&nbsp;is a gay sex poet and arts administrator. Originally from Providence, RI., he has lived throughout New England, California, New York, Oregon, and Tennessee. A graduate of Brown University with honors in creative writing, he also earned a creative writing MFA at Stony Brook University. Now deputy director of Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, he resides in Worcester, MA. He composed his 2021 chapbook,&nbsp;And Walk Through&nbsp;(Seven Kitchens Press), on a typewriter during the pandemic lockdowns.&nbsp;kiss &amp; release&nbsp;(Unsolicited Press, 2024) is his debut collection. His writing and readings are featured on his website,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.anthonywriter.com/" target="_blank">www.anthonywriter.com</a>.

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