Multi-media Artist-Poet Sam Roxas-Chua Reading, Q&A

Reading, Q&A, and book signing with multi-media artist and poet Sam Roxas-Chua
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25 | 5:00 P.M. | WSU JORDAN SCHNITZER MUSEUM OF ART

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Sam Roxas-Chua 姚 (Yao) is a transracial/transcultural adopted person. He is the author of Saying Your Name Three Times Underwater, Echolalia in Script, Fawn Language, and the podcast Dear Someone Somewhere, an audio-journal project. His open-form calligraphy, artworks, and writing have appeared in various journals and galleries. Sam is a poet in the periphery, a multimedia artist, field recordist, and an amateur radio operator. He’s read for PEN International, city government events, and is currently an artist-in-residence at the Portland Chinatown Museum. Poet Tyehimba Jess describes Sam’s poems as “surreal yet rooted in palpable color and history … it transcends oceans, blends geographies, and bleeds a multitongued heritage for us to better find ourselves.”