Congrats, dear Tamiko!
To read, click on this link: http://www.lanternreview.com/blog/2013/07/17/a-conversation-with-tamiko-beyer/
R.A. Villanueva wins the 2013 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in poetry for his manuscript Reliquaria
Congrats, dear Ron!
The winner of the 2013 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in poetry is R.A. Villanueva for his manuscript Reliquaria. His writing has appeared in AGNI, Gulf Coast, Virginia Quarterly Review, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Bellevue Literary Review, DIAGRAM, and elsewhere. A founding editor of Tongue: A Journal of Writing & Art, his honors include the 2013 Ninth Letter Literary Award for poetry, fellowships from Kundiman and The Asian American Literary Review, and scholarships from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. He is currently a Language Lecturer at New York University and lives in Brooklyn.
The winner of the 2013 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in fiction is Amina Gautier for her manuscript Now We Will Be Happy. She was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, and is the author of the short story collection At-Risk (U of Georgia P), which won the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. More than seventy-five of her stories have been published or are forthcoming in journals such as Antioch Review, Callaloo, Chattahoochee Review, Crazyhorse, Glimmer Train, Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, North American Review, Notre Dame Review, and Southern Review, among others. Her work has received scholarships and fellowships from the Breadloaf Writer's Conference, Callaloo Writer’s Conference, Hurston/Wright Foundation, Sewanee Writer’s Conference, and others, as well as artist grants from the Illinois Arts Council and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. She received her B.A. and M.A. in English Literature from Stanford University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Pennsylvania.
Both will receive a $3,000 prize and publication by the University of Nebraska Press. Their books will be available in September 2014.
http://prairieschooner.unl.edu/?q=book-prize/current-winners
July 17: Writing Race & Belonging, A Protest Poem for Trayvon Martin
To stand in solidarity with Trayvon Martin and his family and to speak on the national debate on civil rights and racial profiling, Kundiman will be writing a protest poem both virtually and as part of our Writing Race & Belonging presentation at the Gramsci Monument sponsored by Dia Art Foundation. Poets of color from around the country will participate in this poetic vigil for Trayvon Martin. You'll be able to view the virtual poem as it unfolds in real time on this webpage below. Hit the refresh button on your browser to view the updated content.
Wednesday, July 17
11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Gramsci Monument is located on the grounds of Forest Houses, off Tinton Avenue between 163rd and 165th Streets.
Directions:
- Subway: 2, 5 at Prospect Avenue
- Head north on Prospect Avenue
- Turn left onto 163rd Street
- Pass Union Avenue
- Turn right onto Tinton Avenue
- Take first left onto pedestrian pathway leading into Forest Houses
Nicky Sa Eun Schildkraut's poem "a modern ghost family" is published at AAWW's Line Break
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