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Unless you don’t read the news, watch TV, or listen to the radio, you’re probably aware that in a week, on August 8, 2008, the Beijing rendition of the Summer Olympics will be having their opening ceremonies.

We’ll be treated to an array of lavish performances featuring “giant whales, simulated waterfalls,” and what not. All to demonstrate that China is a force to be reckoned with both economically, politically, and athletically.

If the Olympics aren’t your cup of tea, on August 8, 2008, East Meets Words, the monthly open mic sponsored by Boston Progress Arts Collective will be featuring Edward Bok Lee. If you come by, you’ll be in for a real treat because I hear his poetry is incredible. Ed Bok Lee is the author of Real Karaoke People, which won a 2006 PEN/Beyond Margins Award, a 2006 Asian American Literary Award (Members’ Choice), and in 2007 was a national bestseller in poetry.

Lee attended kindergarten in South Korea, grew up in North Dakota and Minnesota, and has since lived in a half-dozen different cities around the world. He studied Slavics at the Universities of California–Berkeley, Minnesota, Kazakh State–Almaty, and holds an M.F.A from Brown University.

His plays, including Passage, El Santo Americano, and St. Petersburg have been seen at major regional and national theaters including the Guthrie Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, Joseph Papp Public Theatre, Theater Mu, Taipei Theatre, Trinity Repertory Company, and the Walker Art Center. Most recently, he received a 2008-2009 McKnight Artist Fellowship for Writers (Poetry).

Come to share your stories or to listen to Ed share some of his. Cover is $3, but the show is open to all ages.

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