Well-RED Reading Series featuring readings from contributors to Convergence: Poetry on Environmental Impacts of War
Co-sponsored by Works/San José art and performance center!
38 South Second Street, downtown San José.
Featured guests include: Sean Mclain Brown, Teresa Mei Chuc, Anne Coray, Lucille Lang Day, and J.C. Todd!
If you are unable to attend in person, we welcome you to join via Zoom! Register in advance for this event via Zoom.
Link: https://bit.ly/Well-RED_October2026
Downtown SJ provides free parking on the street after 6:00 p.m. Available street parking is difficult to find after 6:30 p.m.
If you are unable to find parking on the street, there are two parking garages of note:
1.) 25 S. 3rd Street PARKSJ Garage (located underground, under The Globe Apartments), about 300 meters from Works/San Jose;
2.) 2nd & San Carlos PARKSJ Garage (first 90 minutes are free). This is a 5-10 minute walk to Works/San Jose.
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Sean Mclain Brown is a combat disabled Marine Corps veteran and writer based in Santa Clara, California. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Indiana Review, New American Writing, Terrain.org, the San Francisco Chronicle, Fourteen Hills, among others, and in anthologies including Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace, An Introduction to the Prose Poem, and Convergence: Poetry on the Environmental Impacts of War. His book A Field Guide to Disappeared Things is forthcoming from Ink & Ribbon Press in Spring 2027. He is also the winner of the 2026 Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Contest (Hudson Valley Writers Center), forthcoming Spring 2027, and was a finalist for the Tusculum Review Poetry Chapbook Prize.
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Teresa Mei Chuc was born in Sài Gòn, Việt Nam shortly after the Việt Nam War and grew up in Pasadena and Altadena, California on unceded Tongva Territory. Altadena Poet Laureate (2018 to 2020) and a Pasadena Rose Poet since 2016, Teresa Mei Chuc is the author of three books of poetry, Invisible Light (Many Voices Press, 2018), Keeper of the Winds (FootHills Publishing, 2014) and Red Thread (Fithian Press, 2012). Her recent poetry chapbook, Incidental Takes, was published by Hummingbird Press in 2023. She is co-editor of the anthology, Convergence: Poetry on Environmental Impacts of War (Scarlet Tanager Books, 2026). Teresa has a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (Poetry) from Goddard College. She is a public high school English teacher and has taught in the Los Angeles Unified School District for over twenty years.
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Anne Coray is the author of three full-length poetry collections: A Measure’s Hush (Boreal/Red Hen, 2011), Violet Transparent (Future Cycle Press, 2010), and Bone Strings (Scarlet Tanager Books, 2005), as well as a chapbook on climate change, Late Fall Bucolics (The Poetry Box, 2022). Her debut novel is Lost Mountain (West Margin Press, 2021). She is co-editor of the anthologies Crosscurrents North: Alaskans on the Environment (University of Alaska Press, 2008) and Convergence: Poetry on Environmental Impacts of War (Scarlet Tanager Books, 2026). She co-authored the nonfiction book Lake Clark National Park and Preserve (Alaska Geographic, 2009). Her work has appeared in many literary magazines including the Southern Review, Northwest Review, Green Mountains Review, Poetry, North American Review, and AQR. The recipient of grants and a fellowship from the Alaska State Council on the Arts and an Individual Artist Project Award and fellowship from the Rasmuson Foundation, she divides her time between the coastal town of Homer and her birthplace on remote Lake Clark in southwest Alaska.
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Lucille Lang Day is the author of The Cosmos and Me: New and Selected Poems (Trio House, 2026), as well as seven previous full-length poetry collections and four chapbooks. She has also edited the anthology Poetry and Science: Writing Our Way to Discovery, coedited Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California and Red Indian Road West: Native American Poetry from California, and published two children’s books and a memoir. Her work appears in more than 200 magazines and anthologies, such as The Cincinnati Review, The Hudson Review, River Styx, The Threepenny Review, Scientific American, ZYZZYVA, and Attached to the Living World: A New Ecopoetry Anthology. Her many honors include the Blue Light Poetry Prize, two PEN Oakland – Josephine Miles Literary Awards, the Joseph Henry Jackson Award, and eleven Pushcart Prize nominations. Founder and publisher of a small press, Scarlet Tanager Books, she lives in Oakland, California. https://lucillelangday.com
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J. C. TODD, co-editor of Convergence: Poetry on Environmental Impacts of War, is author of three books of poetry, most recently the bilingual (English-Lithuanian) new and selected, What Kept Me Awake?/Kas neleido uzmitgti? (PDR Press, 2024), and Beyond Repair, on the traumatic effects of war on civilian and combatant woman, the runner up for the 2019 Able Muse Press Poetry Book Award. She also has published three chapbooks, most recently The Damages of Morning (Moonstone Books, 2018). Her poems have appeared widely, including in The Paris Review, Pedestal, Prairie Schooner, and Virginia Quarterly Review. She has received fellowships from the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Leeway Foundation, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and artist residency programs, including The Hambidge Center, Ragdale, Ucross, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and its international program at Schloss Wiepersdorf. Awards include the 2016 Rita Dove Poetry Prize from the International Writing Center. She has taught in the Creative Writing Program at Bryn Mawr College and the MFA Program at Rosemont College and received an MFA from the Warren Wilson Program for Writers. She lives in Philadelphia, PA.
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