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SUMMARY:WINTER READ: "Bitter Creek" with Teow Lim Goh
DESCRIPTION:In September of 1885\, the Chinese coal miners who were brought 
 into Wyoming as strikebreakers were ambushed and driven out of the town of 
 Rock Springs at gunpoint by white coal miners. Teow Lim Goh's Bitter Creek 
 revisits this dark episode—known today as the Rock Springs 
 Massacre—revealing the stories beneath this violent\, decade-long 
 culmination of labor struggles and racial hostilities in the Union Pacific 
 Coal Mines.\n\nThrough the eyes of the struggling railroad workers\, their 
 families\, and the corporation working them to the bone\, Teow Lim Goh 
 creates an ode to buried history that blends epic tradition with modern 
 composition and astonishing empathy to ask the question\, “What turns 
 ordinary people into monsters?”\n\nThis program is part of the 2025 
 Winter Read. The program will be livestreamed and available to watch later. 
 Click here to watch online.\n\nBooks are available online to pre-order from 
 Torrey House Press\, which is publishing the book in May 2025.\n\nTeow Lim 
 Goh is a poet and essayist who writes from the nexus of people and place. 
 One of her ongoing projects is to recover the histories of Chinese 
 immigrants in the American West. She is the author of two previous poetry 
 collections\, Islanders (2016) and Faraway Places (2021)\, and her essay 
 collection Western Journeys (2022) was a finalist for the 2023 Colorado 
 Book Awards in Creative Nonfiction.
LOCATION:John A. and Carole O. Moran Lecture Hall\, The Community Library
ORGANIZER;CN="Martha Williams":MAILTO:mwilliams@comlib.org
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Conversations, Winter Read
CONTACT;CN="Martha Williams":MAILTO:mwilliams@comlib.org
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