Slam poet Kit Yan appears at UNC Asheville on March 3

Kit Yan, a New York based spoken-word artist, performs slam poetry about his life as a queer, transgender and Asian-American person. His stories deal with family, love and social justice. He appears at  UNC Asheville’s Humanities Lecture Hall on Tuesday, March 3 at 7 p.m.

Press release from UNCA:

Spoken word artist Kit Yan will perform on Tuesday, March 3 at 7 p.m. in UNC Asheville’s Humanities Lecture Hall. A queer, transgender Asian-American, Yan performs theatrical slam poetry pieces about his life through stories about family, love and social justice.

Yan has appeared on television programs such as HBO’s East of Main Street: Asians Aloud, PBS’ Searching For Asian America and Myx TV, an Asian-American cable network based in Los Angeles. Yan has performed on numerous international slam poetry stages, including recent performances at the True Colors Youth Conference, the New England Queer People of Color Conference and at the Brooklyn Museum. Recently, Yan’s work has been featured in two new queer and transgender poetry anthologies, Flicker and Spark and Troubling the Line.

This event is free and open to the public. It is sponsored by UNC Asheville’s Literature Club; The P.B. Parris Fund; Sigma Tau Delta; the Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program; and the Queer Studies Conference. For more information contact Lori Horvitz at lhorvitz@unca.edu or call 828.251.6590.