November 20, 2014, Thursday - Jennifer Kwon Dobbs and Matthew Salesses at The Loft

Time: 7:00pm

Location: The Loft at Open Book (Performance Hall), 1011 Washington Ave S

Jennifer Kwon Dobbs and Matthew Salesses share narratives of adoption.

Jennifer Kwon Dobbs is a poet, critic, essayist and teacher. She has presented her work at colleges and conferences in Canada, China, Cyprus, Denmark, Greece, Republic of Korea, The Netherlands, and Turkey. Her book, Paper Pavilion, received the White Pine Press Poetry Prize and the New England Poetry Club’s Sheila Motton Book Award, and Song of a Mirror was a finalist for the Tupelo Snowbound Chapbook Award. She lives in Daegu and St. Paul, Minnesota.

Matthew Salesses was adopted from Korea at age two. He has written about adoption, race, and parenting for NPR Code Switch, The New York Times Motherlode blog, Salon, the Center for Asian American Media, Hyphen, and often for The Good Men Project. His most recent books are Different Racisms: On Stereotypes, the Individual, and Asian American Masculinity and I'm Not Saying, I'm Just Saying. His novel, The Hundred-Year Flood, is forthcoming in September 2015 from Little A/Amazon Publishing.