On November 30th, KSW Presents: “A Climb That Begins with Falling” featuring Duy Doan and Angie Sijun Lou. This reading is a celebration of Duy Doan’s newly published WE PLAY A GAME, winner of the 2017 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize. Join us as our readers share works exploring what it means to climb and to fall: to fall back to our lines that came before, to our mothers, to our histories that bear repeating. And to climb into to all those sites and events that inform who we are today, with an eye towards structures of migration, memory, gender, and language. The title of this event comes from Duy Doan’s poem “Another Way of Explaining It.” CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: We are opening up submissions for writers to be a part of this reading. Please see below for more information on how to apply. PLUS: Check out KSW's latest Office Gallery exhibition, "These Must Be the Places", a photo exhibition by Anth Bongco! WHEN: Friday, November 30 at 7 PM WHERE: Arc Gallery and Studios, 1246 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA 94103 HOW MUCH: $8 Pre-sale, $20 Support Level (reserved seats) available. Reserve your tickets here. *There is limited seating at the venue, you may purchase supporter level tickets to reserve seats. If you have a disability and/or need to be seated during the event, please contact us at info@kearnystreet.org and we'll work to accommodate you. FEATURES DUY DOAN is a Vietnamese American poet and the author of We Play a Game, winner of the 2017 Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize. His work has appeared in Poetry, Poetry Northwest, Slate, and TriQuarterly. A Kundiman fellow, he received an MFA in poetry from Boston University, where he later served as director of the Favorite Poem Project. He was born in Dallas, Texas. ABOUT WE PLAY A GAME Duy Doan’s striking debut reveals the wide resonance of the collection’s unassuming title, in poems that explore—now with abundant humor, now with a deeply felt reserve—the ambiguities and tensions that mark our e