UPCOMING EVENTS AND TEACHING/WORKSHOPS

01/19/2025 630-930pm @ Common Objects, 2601 1st Ave, Seattle, WA 98121

SEVEN SNAKES NEW YEAR READING / Link to tickets

The Year of the Wood Snake is finally here, and it asks us to channel our most creative, perceptive, and charming selves. On January 29, join seven readers as they summon the serpents, attend to mysteries, and share writings across genre and form. Seats will be arranged in a long, winding shape, with readers performing around the snake. Audiences will be encouraged to slither down the seats every so often.

With Woogee Bae, Justine Chan, Amy Hirayama, Ell Lin, Mita Mahato, Jenne Hsien Patrick, and Dujie Tahat.


PAST EVENTS

11/09/2024 5-7pm @ Fantagraphic Books & Gallery, 1201 South Vale Street, Seattle

ARCTIC PLAY: MITA MAHATO

Link to more info on Short Run Festival satellite events

A celebration of Mita Mahato’s new book “Arctic Play,” book signing and in conversation with Jenne Hsien Patrick.

08/12/2024 @ Judes in Rainer Beach, Seattle WA

NON FICTION FOR NO REASON

SUMMER 2024 NFNRmini is six Mondays in summer. Four readers for one hour. The best place in the city for a cocktail. And Eric Acosta will co-create a story of each night. July 15th’s readers are friends and heroes, plus a sweet surprise from out of town. Presented by Hinton Publishing’s Speak the Sojourner. Don’t miss this. August 12 features Emily Parzybok, Jenne Hsien Patrick, Nanya Jhingran, and Sullivan forderhase.

06/28/2024 @ Stelo Arts, Portland OR

A MOUTH HOLDS MANY THINGS BOOK RELEASE CELEBRATION

This event is co-hosted by De-Canon with community partners Stelo Arts, Pacific Northwest College of Arts (PNCA), and Fonograf Editions.

Readings and Roundtable Discussion with contributors: Stephanie Adams-Santos, Jennifer S. Cheng, Gabrielle Civil, Monica Ong, Jennifer Perrine, Sandy Tanaka (+ late addition Jenne Hsien Patrick). Moderated by Editors Dao Strom and Jyothi Natarajan

06/22/2024 @ Frye Museum, Seattle WA

UNPOETRY AT THE FRYE

LINK TO RECORDING HERE

Join us on a tour of Stephanie Syjuco: After/Images and Twilight Child: Antonia Kuo And Martin Wong using Ekphrastic writing to explore the bond between language and art. The Frye's partnership with Unpoetry asks local writers to generate pieces based on current exhibitions, with the goal to inspire deeper engagement of the museum space and the artwork it holds. This session will feature Justine Chan, Troy Osaki, Jenne Hsien Patrick, and Patheresa Wells, and will be hosted by Amy Hirayama.

05/16/2024 @ Hugo House Lapis Theater, Seattle WA

HUGO FELLOWS FINAL READING

FREE - LINK TO RSVP

Come celebrate a year of growth and work from our 2023-24 Hugo House Fellows at their final reading!

The Hugo Fellows will read from the projects they’ve been working on during their Hugo Fellowships, featuring Celeste Chan, Adelle Dimitui, Cass Garison, Jenne Hsien Patrick, Jordynn Paz, and Neena Viel. Writers-in-Residence Ching-In Chen and Joyce Chen, who served as mentors for this class of Fellows, will emcee.


05/13/2024 @ Brick & Mortar Books, Redmond WA

POETRY READING WITH REDMOND POET LAUREATE CHING-IN CHEN

FREE - LINK TO RSVP

Join us to welcome Redmond Poet Laureate Ching-In Chen as well as local poets Noor Alnaaz Islam, Felicia Payomo, William Nu’utupu Giles, and Jenne Hsien Patrick, and celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month with a themed poetry reading!


05/11/2024-05/12/2024 @ Washington Hall, Seattle WA

SEATTLE ART BOOK FAIR

FREE - LINK TO WEBSITE

Helping out at the Paper Press Punch table!!!


03/11/2024 @ ArtCenter School of Design, Pasadena CA

Artist Teacher and Lecture with HNAR-223-01: Comics & Zines

02/15/2024 @ Hugo House Lapis Theater, Seattle WA

Hugo Fellows Mid-Year Reading

LINK TO THE RECORDING HERE

Come celebrate half a year of growth and work from our 2023-24 Hugo House Fellows at their mid-year reading!

The Hugo Fellows will read from the projects they’ve been working on during their Hugo Fellowships, featuring Celeste Chan, Adelle Dimitui, Cass Garison, Jenne Hsien Patrick, Jordynn Paz, and Neena Viel. Writers-in-Residence Ching-In Chen and Joyce Chen, who served as mentors for this class of Fellows, will emcee.

You can read more about the 2022–24 Hugo Fellows and their projects here.


09/29/2023 NonSequiter Wayward Music Series @ The Good Shepherd Center, Seattle WA

Rice, Blood, Sugar: a New Work by Leanna Li Keith

LINK TO THE RECORDING HERE

LINK TO INTERVIEW WITH LEANNA LI KEITH IN THE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINER ON THE COLLABORATION

Composer/performer/artist Leanna Li Keith teams up with poet/writer/artist Jenne Hsien Patrick to dream up this experience of sound and language. Both with shared backgrounds as mixed-Chinese Americans, Keith and Patrick have been discussing their experiences with heritage language for the past four years. Rice, Blood, and Sugar is the result of that ongoing conversation and process. The performance of the piece features Keith as flutist/vocalist/conduction artist, Kaley Lane Eaton as vocalist/pianist/banjo player, Heather Bentley as violist/cellist, and Alina To as violinist. Additionally, the performance will be opened by a reading of works by Omar Willey.


07/25/2021 @ Noyo Review / Mendocino Coast Writers Conference

Noyo Review Launch Party!

Featuring MCWC 2020 participants: Morgan Cummings, Gagné, Steven Genise, Georgina Marie, Jenne Hsien Patrick, Lisa Piazza, Trudie Scott, Nicole Simonsen, Steph Sorensen, Beulah Vega.


12/04/2020 @ Folio Seattle

Poetry Reading: Motherhood.

LINK TO THE RECORDING HERE

A special reading about motherhood in uncertain times, full of fear and rage, solace and beauty.

Featuring Anastacia-Renee, Keetje Kuipers, Jenne Hsien Patrick, Jessica Gigot and Margot Kahn.