Kundiman Poetry Prize Events

2011 Events

Book Launch for Pier

Janine Oshiro, winner of the 2010 Kundiman Poetry Prize reads in New York City.

November 9, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Fordham University, Lincoln Center, South Lounge, 113 West 60th St.
[Directions: Take A, B, C, D or 1 train to Columbus Circle. Exit at 60th St. & Broadway. Go west of Columbus Ave. Upon entering the glass doors, inform security that you are attending the English Dept. event. Take the escalators up 1 floor to Plaza level and head to the back of the Student Cafeteria.]

Kundiman thanks the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Dean Busch, and the English Department at Fordham University for their partnership and support for this program.

November 11, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, 58 West 10th Street, b/w 5th and 6th Ave., New York City
New Asian American Writers Reading:  Jessica Hagegorn, Janine Oshiro and Samuel Park.

Co-sponsored with Kundiman, Creative Writing Program at NYU, and the Asian American Writers' Workshop.

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership wth the City Council.

Janine Oshiro holds degrees from Whitworth College (now Whitworth University), Portland State University, and the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She is a Kundiman fellow and the recipient of a poetry fellowship from Oregon’s Literary Arts. She lives in Hawaii and teaches at Windward Community College. She is the winner of the inaugural Kundiman Poetry Prize, which was founded in 2010 and is an annual book publication prize open to emerging and established poets of Asian American descent. The Prize is a partnership between Kundiman and Alice James Books.