Thu, Jun 4
NY
Staceyann Chin, known for her appearances on Def Poetry Jam, kicks off the morning's readings. This Jamaica-born New Yorker reads from The Other Side of Paradise, a memoir that chronicles her coming of age as a half-black half-Asian gay person on the ...
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Coming-of-age tale recounts harrowing childhood in Jamaica 
source: PopMatters
IL - Lauren R. Harrison For Staceyann Chin, it's just another way to stand out among the fray. The Jamaican black and Chinese poet has roused crowds in the Tony Award-winning “Russell Simmons Def Poetry Jam on Broadway,” as well as in her one-woman, off-Broadway ...
Published Sun, May 3
Coming-of-age tale recounts harrowing childhood in Jamaica 
source: Victoria Advocate
TX For Staceyann Chin, it's just another way to stand out among the fray. The Jamaican black and Chinese poet has roused crowds in the Tony Award-winning "Russell Simmons Def Poetry Jam on Broadway," as well as in her one-woman, off-Broadway ...
Published Tue, Apr 28
HAVE YOU READ THE NEW STACEYANN CHIN BOOK? BARNES AND NOBLE NEW ... 
source: AfterEllen.com
An opinionated figure, she is beloved the world over and recognized perhaps most famously for her appearance on both Broadway and HBO for Russell Simmons’ Def Poetry Jam. Her work has been featured in the New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post, ...
Published Mon, Apr 13
'A Reliable Wife,' 'The Horse Boy,' 'Jeff in Venice' 
source: Newsday
NY THE OTHER SIDE OF PARADISE, by Staceyann Chin (Scribner, $24). Chin, a performer in "Russell Simmons' Def Poetry Jam," writes about her childhood in Jamaica without a present mother or father, and of her decision, as a college student, to come out as a ...
Published Thu, Apr 9
Intersections: What's the Big Idea? 
source: wbez.org
IL Featuring keynote address by Tony Award Winner and Def Poetry Jam Poet Staceyann Chin, and a special presentation by Ceasar McDowell of Dropping Knowledge. Workshops to be presented by: Award Winning Poet and Author Patrick Rosal, 2004 National Poetry ...
Published Thu, Feb 19
Lesbian poet Staceyann Chin to read at Speak Out event in Miami 
source: Sun-Sentinel.com
FL - Chin, who is Jamaican and Chinese descent, went on to co-write and co-star in the Tony Award-winning Russell Simmons Def Poetry show on Broadway. ...
Published Mon, Jan 19
Out poet: Staceyann Chin is a soldier in the army fighting on ... 
source: MiamiHerald.com
FL - In addition to appearing on Def Poetry, Chin has performed one-woman shows throughout the world, including three Off-Broadway. ...
Published Fri, Jan 16
TONIGHT Staceyann Chin at 8pm in Miller Theatre! 
source: The Blaaag
From the rousing cheers of the Nuyorican Poets' Cafe to one-woman shows Off-Broadway to poetry workshops in Denmark and London to co-writer and performer in the Tony nominated, Russell Simmons Def Poetry Jam on Broadway, Staceyann Chin ...
Published Tue, Oct 14