At JavaArts, 56, Sihanouk Boulevard, Wednesday April 30, 2014 Night, Starting at 6 PM. I'm one of the Two Featured Readers to read my poems, both in English and Khmer.
Details by American poet Greg Bem, then event host:
The monthly poetry night @ Java, invites all styles of writing and literary arts to take the stage.
From 6-7 there will be a "meet-up" where anyone is welcome to join and discuss their writing process, and share any projects their working on. From 7-8 there will be one or two featured readers. And from 8-9 there will be an open mic, which is open to all backgrounds, languages, styles, etc.
The first featured reader this month is Carly Nugent. In the past Carly has written mostly for theatre in Melbourne, Australia. In 2009 her script Shots was awarded the R.E. Ross Trust Playwrights’ Script Development Award and was performed as part of the Victorian State Library’s Flashpoint reading series. More recently, however, she has been writing prose fiction. In 2012 her short story ‘Jeremy’ won the Olvar Wood Competition, and was published in 2013 by Melbourne Books as part of their collection Award Winning Australian Writing. Carly is currently working on a novel for young adults. She also coordinates a writing workshop group in Phnom Penh.
Second featured reader of the month is Puthpong Sao, a local Cambodian poet and story writer. Since he was young Sao has enjoyed reading. He has liked to read stories, poems, and everything at hand, and peruse them and muse on things around him. He started to write poetic verse at 11 years old. Even when he was little he didn't know English and French, but traced their letters with his fingers in the air, on walls, and so on. At 14 he started to write songs and poems for pleasure. Two of his stories were submitted to contests and won first prize: one children's tale entitled "A Young Golden-Furred Squirrel" at a Room-to-Read-organized contest in 2005 and printed in 10,500 copies at the 2nd edition, and another entitled "Destiny Built in Deep Heart from Both Hands," which is focused on child's rights, at a Ministry-of-Social-Affairs-organized contest in Dec 2012. He has written several stories (two novels, nine children's tales) and some 500 poems (most of them in English, Khmer and some in French.)
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