Congratulations, dear Janine! Check out 2 of her poems in the Kenyon Review.
Ron Villanueva wins Ninth Letter Poetry Award
Big congratulations, dear Ron!
Li-Young Lee, Srikanth Reddy, and Lee Ann Roripaugh Read at Fordham Lincoln Center
Come and celebrate as Kundiman's 2013 Faculty and Fellows read at Lincoln Center during Kundiman's 10th Annual Poetry Retreat.
Friday, June 21st
7:00 pm
Fordham Lincoln Center 113 W. 60th Street (at Columbus Avenue)
12th Floor Lounge
Facebook event here: https://www.facebook.com/events/607583239253868/
Directions
Take A, B, C, D & 1 trains to Columbus Circle.
Exit at 60th Street & Broadway. Go west of Columbus Avenue. Upon entering the glass doors inform the security desk that you are attending the Asian American Poetry event. Take escalators up 1 floor to Plaza level. Take elevator up to the 11th floor. Take stairs 1 flight up to the 12th Floor. Enter 12th Floor Lounge
Li-Young Lee is the author of four critically acclaimed books of poetry, his most recent being Behind My Eyes (W.W. Norton, 2008). His earlier collections are Book of My Nights (BOA Editions, 2001); Rose (BOA, 1986), winner of the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award from New York University; The City in Which I Love You (BOA, 1991), the 1990 Lamont Poetry Selection; and a memoir entitled The Winged Seed: A Remembrance (Simon and Schuster, 1995), which received an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation and will be reissued by BOA Editions in 2012. Lee's honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Lannan Foundation, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, as well as grants from the Illinois Arts Council, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. In 1988 he received the Writer's Award from the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation. He is also featured in Katja Esson's documentary, Poetry of Resilience.
Srikanth Reddy is the author of two books of poetry -- Facts for Visitors, which received the 2005 Asian American Literary Award for Poetry, and Voyager -- both published by the University of California Press. His scholarly study of 20th Century American poetry, titled Changing Subjects, was published by Oxford University Press in 2011. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the doctoral program in English at Harvard University, Reddy has received fellowships from the Whiting Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the NEA, and the Creative Capital Foundation. He is currently an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Chicago.
Lee Ann Roripaugh’s most recent volume of poetry,Dandarians, is forthcoming from Milkweed Press in 2014. Her third volume of poetry, On the Cusp of a Dangerous Year, was released by Southern Illinois University Press in 2009. A second volume, Year of the Snake, also published by Southern Illinois University Press, was named winner of the Association of Asian American Studies Book Award in Poetry/Prose for 2004. Her first book, Beyond Heart Mountain (Penguin Books, 1999), was a 1998 winner of the National Poetry Series, and was selected as a finalist for the 2000 Asian American Literary Awards. The recipient of a 2003 Archibald Bush Foundation Individual Artist Fellowship, she was also named the 2004 winner of the Prairie Schooner Strousse Award, the 2001 winner of the Frederick Manfred Award for Best Creative Writing awarded by the Western Literature Association, and the 1995 winner of the Randall Jarrell International Poetry Prize. Her poetry and short stories have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. Roripaugh is currently a Professor of English at the University of South Dakota, where she serves as Director of Creative Writing and Editor-in-Chief of South Dakota Review.
Co-sponsored with Fordham University.
Writing Race & Belonging: A Live Monument
As part of Writing On It All, Kundiman is sponsoring a creative enactment of tolerance and belonging for poets of color. In this live "monument," one group of poets will write a collaborative poem centering on their experience of racism which will alternate between an exquisite corpse (poets writing in succession) and an exploded poem (poets writing at the same time) on a projected new media space. A second group of poets will select portions of the projected new media poem to act as first lines for their own pieces which will be centered on their and their families' experience of making a home in America. This second group of poets will write their poems in paint on wall paper that has been hung around the perimeter of the space. What we aim to create is the sensation that acts of violence and racism figured through new media are absorbed through the more physicalized poems of home and belonging that are painted throughout the space. Throughout this staged writing, there will be readings from the books of Asian American poets and writers.
Saturday, June 15
12 - 3 pm
Governor's Island
For more information, go here: http://writingonitall.com/
Kundiman 10 Year Anniversary Indiegogo Fundraiser
Donate today!
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-build-kundiman/x/3164615?c=home
A message from Kundiman Co-Founder Sarah Gambito
Kundiman Co-Founders Sarah Gambito and Joseph O. Legaspi with Poets & Writers' Jackson Prize Honoree and Kundiman Faculty Arthur Sze (center).
Dear and dear family and friends,
I write with my heart on my sleeve. I think many of you know that, with Joseph O. Legaspi, I co-founded a literary non-profit company called Kundiman.
In the past 10 years, Kundiman fellows have gone on to publish 25 books and 26 chapbooks. Book by book, this is a literal transformation of American letters.
Kundiman is a collective of leaders, writers and readers that believe that the Asian American story must be told by its own sons and daughters.
We are looking for partners to take us to the next level sustainability and success. We’re raising money to support our programs and to enable full-time staff that can prioritize Kundiman’s goals and project initiatives. With your help, Kundiman can ensure the mentorship of generations of Asian American writers to come. With your help, we’ll be able to build a legacy of belonging and expansiveness for Asian American writers. Our story on our terms for our generations is being written. Join us.
Please give as generously as you can. For every donation made, a group of anonymous angel donors will match the contribution—up to $10,000. So for every dollar that you give, your impact is doubled.
Click on this link for more: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-build-kundiman/x/3164615?c=home
And check out our Fellows Fundraising video here:
Kundiman Prize Reading: Matthew Olzmann's Mezzanines
Join us as we come together to celebrate Matthew Olzmann's Mezzanines, recently published by Alice James Books!
Facebook event page here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/453993521349198/
“Olzmann’s masterful debut heralds the arrival of a delightful and daring poetry that scorches and coils its way through galaxies, strip malls, and the intricacies of the human body. With a wickedly delightful wisdom at its core, Mezzanines practices the most graceful kind of alchemy—its greatest strength is how it turns tiny heartbreaks into a bright and satisfying beauty.”
—Aimee Nezhukumatathil
“Olzmann has an outsider’s wit and a border crosser’s slick vision. From seam, threshold, and cut, these poems navigate the galactic and the aquatic, the immediate and the imaginary, the reasonable and the American. He’s amused by his own bewilderment. What’s more, he manages to never abandon love. Olzmann’s skilled play, terrific ear, and immense heart make Mezzanines a must-read.”
—Patrick Rosal
“With Mezzanines Matthew Olzmann has given us a vibrant new poetry, as soulful as it is funny. Sci-fi and snake charms, love poems, ship wrecks, and a dash of artful self-parody—the materials of his narratives come from all over the cosmos to find, in this wonderful poet’s hands, a shape crackling with power that’s connective, convincing, and true.”
—David Baker
Join us for Poets & Writers' Connecting Cultures Reading with Muriel Leung, Alison Roh Park, and Kit Yan
Join us at La Casa Azul Bookstore on April 20, 2013 for Poets & Writers' Fourth Annual Connecting Cultures reading, presenting: Cheryl Boyce-Taylor Saturday, April 20 – 6PM La Casa Azul Bookstore Free and open to the public. RSVP here. Reception to follow. Poets & Writers will also be raffling off free subscriptions to the magazine! This year's reading will feature writers who have participated in events through organizations funded by Poets & Writers' Readings/Workshops program, including: Calypso Muse, CantoMundo, Cave Canem Foundation, and Kundiman. For more about the Readings/Workshops Program, please visit us here: www.pw.org/funding.
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DEADLINE EXTENDED! Submit to the 2013 Kundiman Poetry Prize!
The deadline to submit your manuscript has been EXTENDED to March 15, 2013!
The Kundiman Poetry Prize is dedicated to publishing exceptional work by Asian American poets.
Winner receives $1,000, book publication with Alice James Books and a New York City feature reading.
Alice James Books is a cooperative poetry press with a mission is to seek out and publish the best contemporary poetry by both established and beginning poets, with particular emphasis on involving poets in the publishing process.
For guidelines, please visit http://www.kundiman.org/prize/
Eugenia Leigh's poem "Destination: Beautiful" is the 2013 Neil Postman Award winner!
Congrats, dear Eugenia!
I’ve come to hunt a time capsule at the west end
of Sunset Boulevard. To rummage the beach for remnants
of old friends who’ve abandoned themselves to sprout
new families.
Read the rest of her poem here: http://www.rattle.com/poetry/2013/02/destination-beautiful-by-eugenia-leigh/
Eugenia Leigh is the author of a forthcoming collection of poetry, Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows (Four Way Books, 2014), which was a finalist for both the National Poetry Series and the Yale Series of Younger Poets. A Korean American poet and Kundiman fellow, she holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, and has taught writing workshops for high school students and incarcerated youths. Her poems have appeared in several publications including North American Review, The Collagist, Rattle and the Best New Poets anthology. Born in Chicago and raised in southern California, Eugenia currently lives in New York City, where she believes in miracles.
Congrats to Sally Wen Mao, whose poem "XX" was selected for The Best American Poetry 2013!
Congrats, dear Sally!
Here's the beginning of her self-interview on her forthcoming book of poetry:
What is the working title of the book?
Mad Honey Symposium.
Where did the idea come from for the book?
Poetry books usually come from entire constellations of ideas. Here are some of the most pervasive ones, for me:
1. When researching names for an angry third world feminist girl band in 2007, I stumbled upon the fact that honey badgers aim for the scrotums when attacking larger animals.
2. Honey badgers pretend to be immortal when they are not. They may have thick skin and fierce claws but they do get hurt. Poetry is feral. So is desire. The honey badger denotes a feral desire. More so, it denotes a female, vulnerable desire. The honey badger exemplifies marginalized bodies. Such is the paradox of poetry: it’s vulnerable, yet attempts to be brave. We do not know whether to call it stupid, or admirable, or both.
3. Mad honey makes people go crazy. They eat it in a state of wonder or fit of hunger or desire. They experience hallucinations after eating it. They get drunk on this honey and vomit and tremble and cry. They suffer for their desires.
Read the rest of her interview here: http://indianareview.org/2013/02/13/the-next-big-thing-sally-wen-mao/