Bushra Rehman is featured in Poets & Writers magazine's annual debut fiction round-up for her book Corona

Congrats, Bushra!

From Poets & Writers: 

For our thirteenth annual roundup of the summer’s best debut fiction, we asked five established authors to introduce this year’s group of debut writers. Read the July/August 2013 issue of the magazine for interviews between Paul Harding and NoViolet Bulawayo, Karen Russell and Bushra Rehman, Nathan Englander and Bill Cheng, Curtis Sittenfeld and Anton DiSclafani, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Chinelo Okparanta. But first, check out these exclusive excerpts from the debut novels and story collections.

Read an excerpt here: 

http://www.pw.org/content/2013_first_fiction_sampler?article_page=2

July 6: Beast Crawl Reading: Kundiman & Manifest

Join the next generation of Kundiman Asian American Poets and Manifest Reading Series Poets who will mix it up for an evening of I Ching, Memory, Cats, Comics, Sex, and Magic poems! Laughs, Tears, Wonder, and Vocal-Visual Fireworks will abound! 

Manifest Reading and Workshop Series seeks to foster a collaborative and experimental community of artists and writers.

Kundiman creates an affirming and rigorous space where Asian American poets can explore, through art, the unique challenges that face the new and ever changing diaspora. 

July 6
5 pm
2300 Telegraph Ave
Oakland, CA

 

Writing Race & Belonging: A Live Monument

On June 15th, 2013, as part of Writing on it All, Kundiman enacted a live monument for Writing Race & Belonging on Governor's Island.  This undertaking was framed by the fact that the New World's first lawful expression of religious tolerance ("Toleration") took place in 1624 on Governors Island.  That jurisprudence was the basis for religious and ethnic diversity and was applied to the region that is now referred to as the New York Tri-State.  Together we wrote a real-time virtual 19 page poem, painted on the walls of a house and upheld the stories of migration and belonging of our families.  

 

Congratulations to Lo Kwa Mei-en, Winner of the 2013 Kundiman Poetry Prize!

 2013 Kundiman Poetry Prize Announcement

Congratulations to Lo Kwa Mei-en, winner of the 2013 Kundiman Poetry Prize. The Alice James Books Board along with members of the Kundiman Board selected her manuscript, “Yearling.” Along with book publication, she will also receive $1,000 and a feature reading in New York City. 

Lo Kwa Mei-en's poems have appeared in Boston Review, Crazyhorse, Gulf Coast, The Kenyon Review, West Branch, and other journals. She earned her MFA from Ohio State University and continues to live and work in Columbus, Ohio.

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The 2013 Kundiman Poetry Prize finalists were: Awake, Location by Mary-Kim Arnold, The Cumulus Effect by J. Mae Barizo, Extended Stay by Janine Joseph, This is How the Bones Sings by W. Todd Kaneko, Day of Clean Brightness by Jane Lin, In the Quiet After by Mia Malhotra, and Autumn Troupe by Miho Nonaka

Congratulations to the winner and finalists!