Maw Shein Win is a
Burmese American
poet
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who lives and teaches in the
San Francisco Bay Area
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. She served as the inaugural
Poet laureate
A poet laureate (plural: poets laureate) is a poet officially appointed by a government or conferring institution, typically expected to compose poems for special events and occasions. Albertino Mussato of Padua and Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) ...
of
El Cerrito, California
El Cerrito (Spanish for "The Little Hill") is a city in Contra Costa County, California, United States, and forms part of the San Francisco Bay Area. It has a population of 25,962 according to the 2020 census. El Cerrito was founded by refugees ...
from 2016 to 2018.
Her works include ''Storage Unit for the Spirit House'' (Omnidawn, 2020),
''Invisible Gifts: New and Selected Poems'' (Manic D Press, 2018) and the chapbook ''Score and Bone'' (Nomadic Press, 2016).
Along with Kathleen Munnelly, Win was also the cofounder of ''Comet Magazine''.
In 2017 she collaborated with artist
Megan Wilson
Megan Wilson is an American visual artist, writer, and activist based in San Francisco. Known for her large-scale installations, public projects, and street art, she incorporates a broad range of pop culture methodologies and aesthetics to address ...
on the public art installation Flower Interruption for the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco.
Win previously worked with Wilson on a broadside project entitled Broadside Attractions/Vanquished Terrains in 2012,
and as an organizer for Capitalism is over! If you want it!
She is a member of The Writers Grotto and is on the board of Oakland PEN.
Works
* ''Score and Bone'' Nomadic Press 2016
* ''Invisible Gifts: Poems'' Manic D Press 2018
* ''Storage Unit for the Spirit House'' 2020
See also
*
List of municipal poets laureate in California
This is a list of past and current municipal poets laureate serving towns, counties, and cities in California.
Cities Albany
* Christina Hutchins (2008-2012)
*Toby Bielawski (2012-2016)
*Rebecca Black (2016 - 2018) [< ...]
References
External links
mawsheinwin.com
American people of Burmese descent
Municipal Poets Laureate in the United States
People from El Cerrito, California
American women poets
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
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