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Among the many 2013 books Split This Rock eagerly anticipates are these titles:
Calling Home: Praise Songs, Incantations, Naomi Ayala (Bilingual Review Press)
Icarus in Love, Antoinette Brim (Main Street Rag)
The Scabbard of Her Throat, Bernadette Geyer (The Word Works)
Pitch Dark Anarchy, Randall Horton (TriQuarterly/Northwestern University Press)
Render, Collin Kelley (Sibling Rivalry Press)
Hum, Jamaal May (Beatrice Hawley Award Winner, Alice James Books)
Mezzanines, Matthew Olzmann (Kundiman Poetry Prize Winner, Alice James Books)
The Light of the Storm / La luz de la tormenta, Carlos Parada Ayala (Zozobra Publishing)
Tenuous Chapel, Melissa Tuckey (ABZ Press Poetry Prize Winner)
Speaking Wiri Wiri, Dan Vera (Letras Latinas Poetry Prize Winner, Red Hen Press)
Read more at: http://blogthisrock.blogspot.com/2012/12/split-this-rock-recommended-poetry.html
Congrats, dear Matthew!
Roxane Gay rounds out a list of non-NYC based writers for the Tin House blog.
"There is a tendency to place the center of the writing universe in New York City. This is understandable—countless writers live there. Have you heard about this magical place called Brooklyn? The media certainly has. Most agents and publishers are based out of New York, there are countless reading series and other trappings of the literati. There’s a certain glamour to the city and what it means for writers. And yet. A little known fact is that there are countless writers living in the rest of the country.
East Coast Love:
Outside of New York City, writers live throughout the rest of New York State. There’s memoirist Daniel Nester (How to Be Inappropriate), Tina May Hall (The Physics of Imaginary Objects), and poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil, whose poetry (Lucky Fish) about identity and motherhood and the natural world are as intimate as they are intense."
Also, if you haven’t yet given, please consider making as generous a contribution as possible before the year ends, so we can continue and expand our work in shaping our Asian American legacy through poetry at http://www.kundiman.org/support/. Thank you.
And to all current donors, thank you again.
Happy Holidays!
Rachelle Cruz is from Hayward, California. She is the author of the chapbook, Self-Portrait as Rumor and Blood (Dancing Girl Press,2012). Her work is forthcoming or has appeared in Bone Bouquet, PANK Magazine, Muzzle Magazine, Splinter Generation, KCET’s Departures Series, Inlandia: A Literary Journey, among others. She hosts The Blood-Jet Writing Hour on Blog Talk Radio. An Emerging Voices Fellow, a Kundiman Fellow and a VONA writer, she lives and writes in Southern California.
My Imelda Marcos
after Margaret Rhee
O, Imelda Marcos, I wear your hair like a woven flag of sharp stars and bees. Something I can’t touch.
Click here to read more of Rachelle's poetry.
Melissa Roxas is a poet, health worker, and human rights activist. For over fifteen years she has done community and social justice work in the United States and in the Philippines. She is a co-founder of Habi Arts, a Los Angeles-based cultural organization dedicated to promoting community empowerment and social justice through the arts.
Melissa is a survivor of enforced disappearance and torture by the Philippine military. While conducting health care work in the Philippines on May 19, 2009, she was abducted at gunpoint and held in secret detention in a Philippine military camp and tortured for six days. Melissa continues to write and speak out against human rights violations and to demand justice for victims all over the world.
Light the Bonefire
for Raymond Manalo
Wood lights a fire within the body.
And yes,
there is ash before the burning.
Click here to read more of Melissa's poetry.
In order to help mentor the next generation of Asian American poets, Kundiman sponsors an annual Poetry Retreat in partnership with Fordham University. During the Retreat, nationally renowned Asian American poets conduct workshops with fellows. Readings, writing circles and informal social gatherings are also scheduled. Through this Retreat, Kundiman hopes to provide a safe and instructive environment that identifies and addresses the unique challenges faced by emerging Asian American poets. This 5-day Retreat takes place from Wednesday to Sunday. Workshops will not exceed eight students.
Application Period: December 15 - February 1
Retreat Faculty: Li-Young Lee, Srikanth Reddy, and Lee Ann Roripaugh
For more information on the Asian American Poetry Retreat, visit out Retreat page.
Click here to apply!
Congrats, dear Todd, for his podcast up at The Collagist.
W. Todd Kaneko lives and writes in Grand Rapids, Michigan. His work has appeared in Bellingham Review, Los Angeles Review, Southeast Review, Lantern Review, NANO Fiction, the Collagist, and elsewhere. He has received fellowships from Kundiman and the Kenyon Review Writer’s Workshop. He teaches at Grand Valley State University. Visit him at www.toddkaneko.com.
Congrats, Angela! You can read her poems, which are inspired by The Star card of the tarot deck here.
Also, read a review of her book up at The Rumpus!
Angela Veronica Wong is the author of how to survive a hotel fire (Coconut Books 2012). She is on the internet at angelaveronicawong.com.
Experience Tamiko's poetry/visual art collaboration "Subterranean Haibuns" here.
Tamiko Beyer is the author of We Come Elemental, winner of the 2011 Kinereth Gensler Award from Alice James Books, and bough breaks from Meritage Press. She is the Advocacy Writer at Corporate Accountability International and lives in Cambridge, MA. Find her online at wonderinghome.com.
Ching-In Chen is author of The Heart’s Traffic (Arktoi Books/Red Hen Press) and co-editor of The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities (South End Press). They are a Kundiman, Lambda and Norman Mailer Poetry Fellow and a member of the Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation and Macondo writing communities. A community organizer, they have worked in the Asian American communities of San Francisco, Oakland, Riverside and Boston. www.chinginchen.com
Congrats to our dear Kundiman alums!
