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April 8, Kundiman @ the AWP Conference: Love Songs & Leaps of Faith

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The AWP Conference

Kundiman: Love Songs and Leaps of Faith

April 8th, 12 pm - 1:15 pm

Rooms 103, 105
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level

 Each year, Kundiman holds its annual retreat on the campus of UVA. During this retreat, many Kundiman fellows take leaps of faith—breakthroughs in their poetic processes occur. During this panel, staff members, faculty, and fellows will share work written during the retreat as well as their own work that is strongly influenced by the Kundiman community.

 

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April 7, AWP Cave Canem/Kundiman Reading & Salon

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AWP Cave Canem/Kundiman Reading and Salon:  Wednesday, April 7, 2010 – 8pm


An AWP Off-Site Event
Cave Canem & Kundiman Reading & Salon at the Mercury Café: an AWP Off-Site Event.

Featuring Toi Derricotte, Sarah Gambito, Cornelius Eady, Oliver de la Paz, Dawn Lundy Martin & Kazim Ali + a salon featuring Cave Canem and Kundiman fellows & family (bring a poem to share!).

Emceed by Ching-In Chen & Tara Betts.


The Mercury Café
2199 California Street
Denver, CO 80205
(303) 294-9281
http://www.mercurycafe.com

$3 suggested donation -- to benefit Cave Canem & Kundiman (no one turned away for lack of funds).

About Our Featured Readers:
Toi Derricotte is the author of a memoir, The Black Notebooks, and four books of poetry, Tender, Captivity (which won the Paterson Poetry Prize), Natural Birth, and Empress of the Death House. She has received numerous awards, including a fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation, a Guggenheim Fellowship, two fellowships in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts, and two Pushcart Prizes. The Black Notebooks received the Anisfield—Wolf Award and was a New York Times Notable book of the year. In 2008, she received the Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award from Poets & Writers, Inc., the Distinguished Alumni/Alumnae Award from New York University Graduate School of Arts and Science, and the Elizabeth Kray Award for Service to Poetry from Poets House. She is the co-founder of Cave Canem, the historic workshop/retreat for African American poets.

Sarah Gambito is the author of the poetry collections Delivered (Persea Books) and Matadora (Alice James Books). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Iowa Review, The Antioch Review, Denver Quarterly, The New Republic, Field, Quarterly West, Fence and other journals. Her honors include the Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award from Poets and Writers and grants and fellowships from The New York Foundation for the Arts, Urban Artists Initiative and The MacDowell Colony. She is Assistant Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Fordham University. Together with Joseph O. Legaspi, she co-founded Kundiman, a non-profit organization serving Asian American poets.

Cornelius Eady is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently Hardheaded Weather (Penguin, 2008). Victims of the Latest Dance Craze, (Ommation Press, 1986) won the 1985 Lamont Prize from the Academy of American Poets; The Gathering of My Name, (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1991) was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama, and a production of Brutal Imagination (with a score by Diedre Murray) won the 2002 Oppenheimer award for the best first play by an American Playwright. He is the recipient of an NEA Fellowship in Literature; a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry; a Lila Wallace-Readers Digest Traveling Scholarship; a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship to Bellagio, Italy; The Prairie Schooner Strousse Award (1994); and the Elizabeth Kray Award for service to the field of poetry from Poets House. With Toi Derricotte, he is co-founder of Cave Canem. He is associate professor of English at the University of Notre Dame.

Oliver de la Paz is the author of three collections of poetry, Names Above Houses, Furious Lullaby (SIU Press 2001, 2007), and the forthcoming Requiem for the Orchard (U. of Akron Press 2010), winner of the Akron Prize for poetry chosen by Martìn Espada. He co-chairs the advisory board of Kundiman, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of Asian American Poetry. A recipient of a NYFA Fellowship Award and a GAP Grant from Artist Trust, his work has appeared in journals like Virginia Quarterly Review, North American Review, Tin House, Chattahoochee Review, and in anthologies such as Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation. He teaches at Western Washington University.

Kazim Ali's books of poetry include The Far Mosque, The Fortieth Day, and a cross-genre memoir Bright Felon: Autobiography and Cities. He is also the author of two novels, Quinn's Passage and The Disappearance of Seth, and a translation of Marguerite Duras' novel Love. In 2010, his Orange Alert: Essays on Poetry, Art and the Architecture of Silence will be published by the University of Michigan Press in their Poets on Poetry Series. In addition to his work as a yoga teacher and political organizer, Kazim teaches at Oberlin College and in the Stonecoast low-residency MFA program. Kazim also co-founded Nightboat Books in 2004 with Jennifer Chapis.

Dawn Lundy Martin was awarded the Cave Canem Poetry Prize by Carl Phillips for her manuscript, A Gathering of Matter/A Matter of Gathering (University of Georgia Press, 2007). She is the author of The Morning Hour, selected in 2003 by C.D. Wright for the Poetry Society of America's National Chapbook Fellowship. Among her many honors include Massachusetts Cultural Council Artists Grants for Poetry in 2002 and 2006 and the 2008 Academy of American Arts and Sciences May Sarton Prize for Poetry. Excerpts from her new manuscript, DISCIPLINE, can be found in Daedalus, Tuesday: An Art Project, Hambone and Jubilat. She is a founding member of the Black Took Collective, a group of experimental black poets that performs at universities and colleges around the country; co-editor of a collection of essays, The Fire This Time: Young Activists And The New Feminism (Anchor Books, 2004); and a founder of the Third Wave Foundation in New York, a national young feminist organization. She is an assistant professor of English in the Writing Program at the University of Pittsburgh.

About Our Emcees:
Ching-In Chen is the author of The Heart's Traffic (Arktoi Books/Red Hen Press). The daughter of Chinese immigrants, she is a Kundiman, Macondo and Lambda Fellow.

Tara Betts is the author of Arc & Hue. She teaches creative writing at Rutgers University, and she is a Cave Canem fellow.

About Our Organizations:
Cave Canem is a home for the many voices of African American poetry and is committed to cultivating the artistic and professional growth of African American poets. In addition to an annual writing retreat, programs include two book prizes with prestigious presses; workshops in New York City; Legacy Conversations; a Poets on Craft series; nationally based readings and panels; and the publication of two anthologies. http://www.cavecanempoets.org/

Kundiman is an organization dedicated to the creation, cultivation and promotion of Asian American poetry by creating an affirming and rigorous space where Asian American poets can explore, through art, the unique challenges that face the new and ever changing diaspora. In order to help mentor the next generation of Asian-American poets, Kundiman sponsors an annual Poetry Retreat for emerging Asian American poets. http://kundiman.squarespace.com/


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March 21, Kundiman & Verlaine Reading

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Lynn Aarti Chandhok, Cathy Linh Che, & Edmond Menchavez read.

Lynn Aarti Chandhok 's collection The View from Zero Bridge (Anhinga Press, 2007) won the Philip Levine Prize. She received a 2008 Glenna Luschei Prize from Prairie Schooner, as well as the 2006 Morton Marr Poetry Prize from Southwest Review. Her poems have appeared in The New Republic , The Hudson Review, and Missouri Review, on Poetry Daily, and in the anthologies Poetry Daily Essentials 2007 and Satellite Convulsions: Poems from Tin House. She lives in Brooklyn , New York and serves as poet-in-residence at Poly Prep, where she teaches high school writing and literature classes.  Chandhok spent her childhood summers in Kashmir with her father’s family. She travels frequently to India , now to the Kumaon region of the Himalayan foothills.

Cathy Linh Che is a recent graduate from New York University 's MFA Program, where she co-curated a reading series and worked as layout editor for Washington Square . She is currently an editorial assistant at New Directions Publishing and is in the process of gathering work for an anthology of poems written by the children of Vietnam War veterans.


Edmond Menchavez is a paralegal and breakdancer who scribbled in margins for years before it occured to him to read any of it. A native of the Philippines , he was nominated for the Gruber's Award for his writing portfolio at SUNY Binghamton. Ed has read before audiences ranging from elementary schools and hospitals to poetry venues and universities. He is currently working on a collection of poems titled "Still, Weightless, an Outlaw Star." Working in midtown by day, writing downtown by night, breakdancing in Brooklyn on weekends, Ed keeps his belongings in Harlem and his heart bouncing between it all.

More info here. 

 

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March 11, 7 & 7: 7 Poets Celebrate Kundiman's 7th Year

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7 & 7: 7 Poets Celebrate Kundiman's 7th Year (Hossannah Asuncion, Ching-In Chen, Janine Joseph, Joseph O. Legaspi, Alison Roh Park, Soham Patel, & Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai)

Kundiman poets gather to showcase a provocative range of voices and aesthetics engaging in a poetic conversation about building the imaginative capacity of our communities. Kundiman is dedicated to nurturing emerging Asian American poetry. In a culture where the lives and voices of Asian Americans are often marginalized or excluded, Kundiman works to overturn this inequality by creating a community where Asian American poets can articulate our struggles, possibilities, and liberation.

http://www.splitthisrock.org/index.html



2010 Intergenerational Writers Lab (IWL)

2010 Intergenerational Writers Lab (IWL)

A program of Kearny Street Workshop, Intersection for the Arts and AMATE: Women Painting Stories
with Ben Fong-Torres, Genny Lim, Lorna Dee Cervantes and Leticia Hernandez

A unique program with three of SF's community-based interdisciplinary arts organizations designed to thoroughly explore and develop your writing. Accepted applicants will participate in eight workshops led by accomplished writers and artists, engage in and be inspired by other artistic genres, perform their work at a public event, be published in online anthology, and have the opportunity to develop a communal network of writing peers.

Click here to download the application.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: RECEIVED BY 5PM, FEBRUARY 19, 2010.
NOT A POSTMARK DEADLINE. PHYSICAL APPLICATIONS MUST BE RECEIVED BY 5PM on 2/19/2010.

SF-based arts organizations, Kearny Street Workshop, Intersection for the Arts and Amate: Women Painting Stories. are seeking applications for, the 7th annual Intergenerational Writers Lab (IWL), a literary program for emerging writers, scheduled to take place April 3 - May 22, 2010 (Saturdays, 10 am – 1 pm). Twelve students will be selected to participate in the literary program which will involve a series of workshops, a public reading, and an online anthology publication. IWL workshops will be led by Lorna Dee Cervantes, Leticia Hernandez, Ben Fong-Torres and Genny Lim. The IWL will conclude with a public reading in early July at Intersection for the Arts.

The goals of the IWL program include the following:

  1. to provide twelve local emerging writers/artists with the opportunity to challenge, develop, and expand their practice by working with established writers in a variety of genres;
  2. to contribute to the development of new literary forms and language that incorporate multiple forms of creative expression;
  3. to provide emerging artists with the opportunity to create community by connecting and working with each other and with established writers in the literary world;
  4. to provide the larger community with an opportunity to engage with new work and new explorations of form and language;
  5. to publish an online anthology that highlights work by exciting new writers committed to exploring new forms and voices.

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTORS

lornadeeLorna Dee Cervantes
A fifth-generation Californian of Mexican and Native American (Chumash) heritage, Lorna Dee Cervantes was a pivotal figure throughout the Chicano literary movement. She began publishing the literary journal Mango in the mid 1970s. Lorna is a dynamic poet who draws tremendous power from her struggles in the literary and political trenches. Her poetry has appeared in hundreds of literary magazines, award-winning anthologies, and over 150 textbooks. Lorna has taught at the University of Colorado at Boulder and San Francisco State University. She has received two National Endowment for the Arts poetry fellowships, a prestigious Lila Wallace Readers Digest Fellowship, and two Pushcart Prizes. (Photo by Francisco Dominguez).

 

leticiaLeticia Hernandez
Writer and educator, Leticia Hernandez, has presented her music and teatro-infused poetry throughout the country and in El Salvador for over 10 years. Her writing has appeared in newspapers, anthologies and literary journals, some of which include, Street Art San Francisco, and Latino Literature Today. Her chapbook of poetry Razor Edges of my Tongue was published by Calaca Press in 2002. She has taught literature, creative writing, and worked with youth and community-based organizations throughout California, and currently serves as the Executive Director of GirlSource, a non-profit organization that supports and empowers young women in San Francisco. The San Francisco Arts Commission recently awarded her an Individual Artist Grant to complete a poetry manuscript and spoken word/music album entitled Mucha Muchacha. Too Much Girl.

benfongtorresBen Fong-Torres
Ben Fong-Torres is a radio, broadcast and print journalist who wrote for Rolling Stone for 13 years and the San Francisco Chronicle for 11 years. He was born in Alameda, Calif. and was raised in Oakland Chinatown, where his parents owned a restaurant. He won a Billboard Award for San Francisco: What a Long Strange Trip It's Been, a syndicated radio special that Ben wrote and narrated. Ben has authored six books, including Not Fade Away: A Backstage Pass to 20 Years of Rock & Roll, The Hits Just Keep on Coming: The History of Top 40 Radio, and his memoirs The Rice Room: Growing Up Chinese-American from Number Two Son to Rock & Roll. (Photo by Pat Johnson Studios).

gennylimGenny Lim
Genny Lim’s live and recorded poetry/music collaborations include jazz greats Max Roach, Herbie Lewis, Francis Wong and Jon Jang. She's performed at jazz festivals in San Francisco, San Jose, San Diego, Houston and Chicago, and has been a featured poet at World Poetry Festivals in Venezuela (2005), Sarajevo (2007) and Naples (2009). Her play “Paper Angels,” was performed at Settlement House in New York City in 2009, and her performance piece “Where is Tibet?” premiered at CounterPULSE, Dec. 2009. She is the author of two poetry collections, Winter Place, Child of War and co-author of Island:Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island. Genny is a adjunct faculty at CIIS. (Photo by Bob Hsiang).

We are looking for local (SF Bay Area) emerging writers and multidisciplinary artists who wish to develop and expand their practice and skills by experimenting with new forms and taking risks in creative expression. Selected participants will participate in eight workshop sessions of three hours duration each (all workshop sessions will take place on Saturday mornings) and will have the opportunity to attend and participate in a public event at Intersection. Writers need not be published, but must demonstrate a consistent pursuit of the arts and a deep interest in participating in an experimental writing program.

TO APPLY:
Please submit the following:

  1. An IWL 2010 application form;
  2. Writing sample, 12 point & double-spaced, not to exceed 7 pages;
  3. A description of why you want to enroll in the IWL program, not to exceed 500 words.
  4. A submission fee of $10 (check or money order made out to Intersection for the Arts). Please note: submission fees are used to cover artist fees, the online publication, and partial and full scholarships. Submission fees may be waived on as-need basis, and per applicant request. To request a submission fee waiver, please contact KSW at info@kearnystreet.org.

TUITION & SCHOLARSHIPS:
The tuition for accepted IWL participants is $425, (two full or four partial scholarships are available). Tuition levels will be determined on a case-by-case basis, based on individual participant needs. If you wish to be considered for a partial or full scholarship, please submit an additional description of your circumstances and why you believe you deserve a scholarship.

Please submit all materials and application fee to:
Intersection for the Arts
Attention: IWL 2009
446 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94110

For more information, please contact:
Ellen Oh, Executive Director
Kearny Street Workshop
415.503.0520
ellen@kearnystreet.org
www.kearnystreet.org

Rebeka Rodriguez, Program Director
Intersection for the Arts
415.626.2787 ext108
rebeka@theintersection.org
www.theintersection.org

Leticia Hernandez, Director
AMATE: Women Painting Stories
amatepoetry@gmail.com