Janine Oshiro and Nico Alvarado: A Poetry Reading

Join us at Mountain Fold Books as two longtime friends and amazing poets read together.

Janine Oshiro is the author of Pier, winner of the 2010 Kundiman Poetry Prize, published by Alice James Books. She has been awarded the 2011 Elliot Cades Award for Literature in Hawaiʻi and the 2013 Asian American Literary Award for Poetry. A graduate of Whitworth University, Portland State University, and the University of Iowa, she lives in Hawaiʻi. 

Nico Alvarado met Janine at Portland State, and studied with her at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he was a Maytag Fellow. He’s the author of The Collected Poems of Tim Riggns (Hell Yes Press) and his writing has appeared recently in the Boston Review, Gulf Coast, and Sonora Review