STONY BROOK, N.Y., March 29, 2004—Fay Chiang, a poet and cultural activist in New York’s Chinatown and Lower East Side for over 30 years, will deliver a poetry reading and participate in a panel discussion at Stony Brook University on Tuesday, April 27 at Noon at the Charles Wang Center. The event is part of the University celebration of Diversity Week.
Chiang will address students, faculty, and staff on “Building Movements for Self Expression, Social Change, and Justice” as part of the panel discussion.
Chiang was the executive director of the Basement Workshop (the first Asian American non-profit multidisciplinary cultural organization in New York City and director of Henry Street Settlement’s Asian American Outreach Program. She also directed Poets & Writers’ Readings/Workshops state-wide re-grant program. In 2000 she joined Project Reach and is its program development director and a crisis counselor for young people at risk.
Author of two volumes of poetry, In The City of Contradictions, and Miwa’s Song, Chiang’s poetry and prose has been published nationally and internationally in numerous poetry anthologies and literary magazines. She has taught poetry, visual arts and playwriting as an artist-in-residence in venues such as the 63rd Street Y’s Writers Voice, Plays for Living, Project Reach, Art in General and Dramatic Risks. She is currently working on her third volume of poetry, Chinatown, and a fourth volume entitled In This Life.
The event is being funded in part by Poets and Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from The Friends of Poets and Writers.
