Please join Maw Shein Win and Maker, Mentor, Muse for an online celebration of her new full-length poetry collection, Percussing the Thinking Jar (Omnidawn) on Sunday, November 24 from 4 to 5pm. She is delighted to be reading with some of her favorite poets and writers, Rae Diamond, Thea Matthews, Candy Shue, and Jenny Qi. 

In Percussing the Thinking Jar, her third full-length poetry collection, Maw Shein Win reveals how a mind can log thoughts and observations. Through deft braiding of the pleasures, pains, and anxieties of living in a human body, Win has developed new forms which carry the reader to realms that are both deeply personal and universal. These poems are rendered with dreamlike imagery and surprising humor. This generous collection includes 16 Sumi ink drawings by artist Mark Dutcher. Interwoven through the poems, his drawings highlight juxtapositions and counterpoint rhythms inspired by the poems. Reflecting on our strange times, Percussing the Thinking Jar is a hypnotic book that invites readers into conversation with their own vulnerability and resilience.

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Maw Shein Win's third full-length collection Percussing the Thinking Jar (Omnidawn) is forthcoming in Fall 2024. Her most recent poetry collection is Storage Unit for the Spirit House (Omnidawn) which was nominated for the Northern California Book Award in Poetry, longlisted for the PEN America
Open Book Award, and shortlisted for CALIBA's Golden Poppy Award for Poetry. She is the inaugural poet laureate of El Cerrito, CA. Win's previous collections include Invisible Gifts and two chapbooks, Ruins of a glittering palace and Score and Bone. She teaches poetry in the MFA Program at the
University of San Francisco. mawsheinwin.com

Rae Diamond is a neurodivergent interdisciplinary artist, educator and nature advocate who inhales life and exhales poems, music, and other creations. They are the author and artist of floating bones (First Matter Press), the author of The Cantigee Oracle (North Atlantic Books), and the founder of the Long Tone Choir. She is a student and teacher of Qigong, and harbors equally deep loves for the transcendent and the absurd. Find them online at raediamond.com @raediamond on Substack and at https://www.instagram.com/rae13diamond/

Thea Matthews is a poet, author, and editor of African and Indigenous descent. Originally from San Francisco, California, she lives in Brooklyn. Read more at www.theamatthews.com    FB | IG: @theamatthews_ 

Jenny Qi is the author of Focal Point, winner of the 2020 Steel Toe Books Poetry Award judged by Dustin Pearson. Her essays and poems have appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Literary Hub, ZYZZYVA, San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum, and elsewhere. She has been supported by such organizations as Tin House, the San Francisco Foundation, the San Francisco Writers Grotto, the Crested Butte Center for the Arts, and the Center for Cultural Innovation. She is working on a hybrid collection titled Liminal Bodies and a memoir in essays in conversation with her late mother’s memoirs of the Chinese Cultural Revolution and life in Las Vegas. She holds a B.A. from Vanderbilt University and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Science from UCSF. https://jqiwriter.com

Candy Shue is the author of Bridge of Knots, chosen by Matthew Salesses for the Gold Line Press Fiction Award. She earned an MFA from the University of San Francisco, where she was awarded the Poetry Scholarship, and she has received grants from the Provincetown Fine Arts Workshop and the Vermont Studio Center. A Kundiman Fellow, she was on the board of Bay Area Generations, a literary reading series that paired writers from different generations to read together. Recently she has taught the writing workshops “Writing Our Inner And Outer Landscapes”, and “Connecting With Your Writing Community Through Your Authentic Voice” at the Sierra College Writing Conference. www.invisibleadventure.com Author photo by Lisa Redfern.