Congrats, Nicky!
Read her poem, as well as the entire folio, curated by Jennifer Kwon Dobbs and entitled Tending the Speculative: Poems from the Asian American Adoptee Diaspora: http://aaww.org/tending-the-speculative/6/#5
Tarfia Faizullah's "The streetlamp above me darkens" is now up at The New England Review
Congrats, dear Tarfia!
Read her poem here: http://www.nereview.com/vol-34-no-1-2013/tarfia-faizullah/
Purvi Shah's poem "Shine" is now up at Every Day Poets
Congrats, dear Purvi!
Click here to here her poem: http://www.everydaypoets.com/shine-by-purvi-shah/
Michelle Chan Brown discusses her first book of poetry "Double Agent" on WCBN
Congrats, dear Michelle!
Michelle Chan Brown talked about her first book of poetry "Double Agent" with T Hetzel, on WCBN. Click on the 6/26/13 podcast to listen in!
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/living-writers/id121092869?mt=2
Matthew Olzmann's poem "Astronomers Locate a New Planet" is now up at Hyphen Magazine
Congrats, dear Matthew!
Check out his poem, now up at Hyphen Magazine! http://www.hyphenmagazine.com/magazine/issue-27-sex-summer-2013/astronomers-locate-new-planet
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
April Naoko Heck's "Battle at Biak, New Guinea" is now up at The Collagist!
Congrats, dear April!
To read her poem, click here: http://www.dzancbooks.org/the-collagist/2013/5/27/battle-at-biak-new-guinea.html
Ocean Vuong is in Guernica Magazine and Drunken Boat
Congrats, dear Ocean! Check out his piece "I Remember Anyway" in Guernica's Race in America issue and his poem "Descent" in Drunken Boat.
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.
