Announcements
Joseph O. Legaspi debuts his new chapbook "Subways." With a performance by award-winning spoken word artist George "G" Yamazawa, Jr.
Hosted by April Naoko Heck.
NYU Bookstore
6pm
726 Broadway
New York, NY 10003
Check out George's work here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCuElZ5cXDY
We are so proud of Melissa and her groundbreaking work. Check out CURA's post.
1PM - 2PM | YWCA Ground Floor Meeting Room
30 3rd Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11217
Want a poem written for you? We’re taking requests. Meet some hot emerging poets and give them a prompt. They’ll write a poem for you on the spot. Featuring Hossannah Asuncion (Fragments of Loss), Evan Chen, Cynthia Arrieu-King (Manifest), Sally Wen Mao (Mad Honey Symposium), and Cathy Linh Che, the winner of the 2012 Kundiman Poetry Prize.
Hossannah Asuncion grew up near the 710 freeway in Los Angeles and currently lives near an A/C stop in Brooklyn. Her work has been published by The Poetry Society of America,Tuesday; An Art Project, The Collagist, Anti- and other fine places.
Evan Robert Chen is a doctoral student in creative writing at SUNY Albany, where he has taught courses in poetry and film. You can listen to his poems and drones at marrymepoems.tumblr.com.
Cynthia Arrieu-King works as an associate professor of creative writing at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. She is the author of two collections of poetry, People are Tiny in Paintings of China (Octopus Books, 2010) and Manifest (Switchback Books, 2013).
Sally Wen Mao is the author of a forthcoming book of poems, Mad Honey Symposium (Alice James Books, 2014), the winner of the 2012 Kinereth Gensler Award. Her work has been anthologized in The Best American Poetry 2013 and is published or forthcoming in Guernica, Gulf Coast, and Indiana Review.
Cathy Linh Che is the author of Split (Alice James, 2014), the winner of the 2012 Kundiman Poetry Prize. She has also received fellowships from Poets & Writers, Poets House, and LMCC's Workspace Residency.
For more information, visit http://pageturnerfest.org/
11 am - 12 pm
Roulette Ballroom
509 Atlantic Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11217
This special marathon reading presents some of the best emerging Asian American poets.
Featuring Michelle Chan Brown (Double Agent), Cathy Linh Che (Split ), Evan Chen, Vanessa Huang, Cynthia Arrieu-King (Manifest), Jee Leong Koh (Seven Studies for a Self Portrait), Sally Wen Mao (Mad Honey Symposium), Alison Roh Park (What We Push Against), Purvi Shah (Terrain Tracks), and R.A. Villanueva (Reliquaria)
For more information, visit http://pageturnerfest.org/
Cynthia Arrieu-King works as an associate professor of creative writing at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. She is the author of two collections of poetry, People are Tiny in Paintings of China (Octopus Books, 2010) and Manifest (Switchback Books, 2013).
Michelle Chan Brown’s Double Agent was the winner of the 2012 Kore First Book Award, judged by Bhanu Kapil. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Blackbird, The Missouri Review, and Witness. She lives with DC, where she teaches, writes, and edits Drunken Boat.
Cathy Linh Che is the author of Split (Alice James Books, 2014), the winner of the 2012 Kundiman Poetry Prize. She has also received fellowships from Poets & Writers, Poets House, and LMCC's Workspace Residency.
Evan Robert Chen is a doctoral student in creative writing at SUNY Albany, where he has taught courses in poetry and film. You can listen to his poems and drones at marrymepoems.tumblr.com.
Poet, Artist, and Cultural Organizer Vanessa Huang weaves poemsongs with moments of creative aliveness and transformative encounter, color, and texture in call and response with kindred spirits who dream and make worlds where each and all of us are free. She was a finalist for Poets & Writers’ 2010 California Writers Exchange Award.
Jee Leong Koh is the author of four books of poems, including Seven Studies for a Self Portrait (Bench Press). His most recent collection, The Pillow Book, will be translated into Japanese and published by Awai Books in 2014. Born in Singapore, he now lives in New York, and blogs at Song of a Reformed Headhunter.
Sally Wen Mao is the author of a forthcoming book of poems, Mad Honey Symposium (Alice James Books, 2014), the winner of the 2012 Kinereth Gensler Award. Her work has been anthologized in The Best American Poetry 2013 and is published or forthcoming in Guernica, Gulf Coast, and Indiana Review.
Alison Roh Park is a Kundiman fellow, Pushcart nominated poet, and winner of the 2011 Poetry Society of America New York Chapbook Fellowship, 2012 Poets and Writers Magazine Amy Award and 2010 Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant. She currently teaches Asian American Studies at Hunter College and writes for www.racefiles.com.
Purvi Shah won the inaugural SONY South Asian Excellence Award for Social Service for her work fighting violence against women. Her debut book,Terrain Tracks, garnered the Many Voices Project prize and was nominated for the Asian American Writers’ Workshop Members’ Choice Award. You can find more of her work at http://purvipoets.net, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/purvi-shah/, or @PurviPoets.
R.A. Villanueva is the author of Reliquaria, winner of the 2013 Prairie Schooner Book Prize. He is also the winner of the 2013 Ninth Letter Literary Award for poetry. A founding editor of Tongue: A Journal of Writing & Art, he lives in Brooklyn.
Kundiman Poetry reading in the Bay to celebrate NYC poets Ocean and Tamiko and their publications! with Debbie, Margaret, and Truong!!
Facebook event here: https://www.facebook.com/events/219838354842419/
Hosted by the Handsomest: Dan Lau
Come celebrate with us the new publications of
Tamiko's WE COME ELEMENTAL
(ALICE JAMES BOOKS, 2013)
& Ocean's NO (YES YES BOOKS, 2013)
at EASTWIND BOOKS of BERKELEY
2066 University Ave
Berkeley, CA 94704
Saturday, September 28 at 4:30pm
REMEMBER: KUNDIMAN IS LOVE.
Bios Below
OCEAN VUONG!
Born in Saigon, Vietnam, Ocean Vuong is the author of two chapbooks: NO (YesYes Books, 2013) and BURNINGS (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2010), which was an American Library Association's Over The Rainbow selection. A recipient of a 2014 Pushcart Prize, other honors include fellowships from Kundiman, Poets House, and the Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, as well as the 2012 Stanley Kunitz Prize for Younger Poets and an Academy of American Poets Prize. Poems appear in American Poetry Review, Crab Orchard Review, Quarterly West, Denver Quarterly, Guernica, Poetry Northwest, and The Normal School, amongst others. He lives in Queens, NY. (www.oceanvuong.tumblr.com)
DEBBIE YEE!
Debbie Yee's poems have appeared variously, including The Best American Poetry 2009, Bateau and Fence. A Kundiman fellow and San Francisco Arts Commission grant recipient in literary arts, Debbie lives in San Francisco where she is in-house counsel for a national bank and periodically teaches writing and Gocco printmaking. She has lately returned to blogging about crafts, cooking, motherhood, and sometimes poetry at linocat.com.
MARGARET RHEE!
Loves green tea ice cream, vegan foods, thinking about activism, dreams, and new media. Recent poems published and forthcoming at Berkeley Poetry Review, Hyphen Magazine, and Comma, Poetry. Her chapbook Yellow was published in 2011 by Tinfish Press. She is a Kundiman Fellow.
TRUONG TRAN!
Truong Tran is a Vietnamese-American poet, visual artist, and teacher.
His collection dust and consciousness (2002) won the San Francisco
Poetry
Center Book Prize is the author of several collections of
poetry. In 2003, he served as Writer in Residence for Intersection for
the Arts. Tran currently lives in San Francisco,where he teaches
creative writing at San Francisco State University, and is Writer in
Residence at theSan Francisco School of the Arts.
DAN LAU!
Dan Lau is a recipient of a Kundiman Fellowship, a William Dickey Fellowship, an Archie D. and Bertha Walker Scholarship from the FAWC in Provincetown,and an Individual Arts Commission grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission. His poem have appeared in Generations, Cape Cod Review, CRATE, Gesture, RHINO, The Collagist.
TAMIKO BEYER!
Tamiko Beyer is the author of We Come Elemental (Alice James Books), winner of the 2011 Kinereth Gensler Award, and bough breaks (Meritage Press). Her poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in The Volta, Octopus, Quarterly West, and elsewhere. She has received grants and fellowships from Kundiman, Astraea Lesbian Writers Fund, Hedgebrook, and Washington University in St. Louis where received her M.F.A.. Currently, she is the Senior Writer at Corporate Accountability International and lives in Cambridge, MA. Find her online at tamikobeyer.com.
Congrats, dear fellows and alums!
We’re excited to announce the release of our latest publication, Issue 16, Fall 2013.
In This Issue: Michelle Chan Brown, Kali Fajardo-Anstine, April Naoko Heck, Susan Ito, Mia Ayumi Malhotra, Minh Pham, Danny Robles, Chris Santiago, R. A. Santos, Shubha Venugopal, R.A. Villanueva, Frances Kai-Hwa Wang.
Interviews with Li-Young Lee, acclaimed poet and author of four books of poetry and a memoir, including Behind My Eyes (W.W. Norton, 2008) and Shin Yu Pai, author of eight books of poetry, including Aux Arcs (La Alameda Press, 2013).
APIA Commentary by David Mura: The Student of Color in the Typical MFA Program.
Go here to check out their work! http://kartikareview.com/?p=558
Kundiman Reading at NYU
September 27, 2013 5:00 p.m
Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House
New York University
58 West 10th Street
New York, NY 10011
between 5th and 6th Avenues
Kazim Ali, April Naoko Heck & Srikanth Reddy read.
“Sky Ward” (Wesleyan University Press, 2013) is Kazim Ali’s third book of poetry. Srikanth Reddy is most recently the author of “Voyager” (University of California Press, 2011). With an introductory reading by April Naoko Heck (“A Nuclear Family,” UpSet Press, 2013).
Co-sponsored with Kundiman and the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU.
Facebook event here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/366737396790683/
Congrats, dear Roberto!
Check out the announcement here:
http://www.rattle.com/poetry/2013/09/2013-rattle-poetry-prize-winners/
“The Fire This Time”
by
Roberto Ascalon
Seattle, WA
__________
Finalists:
“A Poem for Women Who Don’t Want Children”
Chanel Brenner
Santa Monica, CA
“My Mother Told Us Not to Have Children”
Rebecca Gayle Howell
Lubbock, TX
“Baby Love”
Courtney Kampa
New York, NY
“What He Must Have Seen”
Stephen Kampa
Daytona Beach, FL
“Man on Mad Anthony”
Bea Opengart
Cincinatti, OH
“Laundry List”
Michelle Ornat
Elma, NY
“Man on the Floor”
Jack Powers
Fairfield, CT
“Basic Standards Test”
Danez Smith
St. Paul, MN
“Who Breathed in Binders”
Patricia Smith
Howell, NJ
“Of You”
Wendy Videlock
Grand Junction, CO
These eleven poems will be published in the Winter issue of Rattle this December. Each of the Finalists are also eligible for the $1,000 Readers’ Choice Award, to be selected by entrant and subscriber vote (the voting period is December 1, 2013 – February 15, 2014).
Another nine poems were selected for standard publication, and offered a space in the open section of a future issue. These poets will be notified individually about details, but they are: Jacqueline Berger, Daniel Bohnhorst, Jackleen Holton, Sharon Kessler-Farchi, Michael Meyerhofer, Kathleen Nolan, Charlotte Pence, Sam Sax, and Timothy Schirmer.
Thank you to everyone who participated in the competition, which would not have been a success without your diverse and inspiring poems. We received a record 2,105 entries and well over 8,000 poems, and it was an honor to read each of them.
Open Bar from 4-5 pm
Open Mic from 4:30-5pm
Featured reading begins at 5 pm
$5 donation
Verlaine
110 Rivington St.
(Ludlow & Essex Sts.)
212-614-2494
F train to Delancey
Nina Sharma, Sho Sugita, & Jenny Xie read.
Facebook event page here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1409893549226010/
Nina Sharma is a writer from Edison, New Jersey. Her work has been featured in Certain Circuits Magazine, The Feminist Wire, Reverie: Midwest African American Literature, and Ginosko Literary Journal. She recently was awarded a fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center and nominated for a Pushcart Prize for her nonfiction. With Quincy Scott Jones, she co-created the Noreaster Exchange: a multicultural, multi-city reading series. She is currently attending Columbia University's MFA in writing program and working on her first book.
Sho Sugita
lives in Brooklyn, NY. He works as a medical manuscript translator
and studies poetry at Brooklyn College. He was an invited
musician/reader in 2012 for Les Souffleurs de Vers: deuxième edition
in Grenoble, France to raise funds for the 3-11 Tohoku disaster. His
creative work can be found in Washington
Square and Endless
Possibilities
(Classical and New Music on WRSU). He is currently working on a
translation manuscript of Hirato Renkichi and Kanbara Tai, two poets
active during the Japanese Futurist Movement of the early 1920s.
Jenny Xie received her MFA from NYU, and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the LA Review of Books, Narrative, Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, and elsewhere. She's currently a lecturer in the expository writing program at NYU.
This event was funded in part by Poets & Writers, Inc. through public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.
Congrats, dear Hannah!
The Poetry Foundation and Poetry magazine are pleased to announce the five recipients of 2013 Ruth Lilly Fellowships: Harmony Holiday, Matthew Nienow, Hannah Sanghee Park, Natalie Shapero and Phillip B. Williams. Among the largest awards offered to aspiring poets in the United States, the $15,000 scholarship prize is intended to encourage the further study and writing of poetry and is open to all U.S. poets between 21 and 31 years of age.
“Since Harriet Monroe's founding of Poetry in 1912, to Ruth Lilly's endowment of these fellowships in 1989, to our constant search for fresh new voices today, Poetry has always sought work that enlivens our sense of what poetry is worth and what it can do,” said Don Share, editor of Poetry magazine, in announcing the 2013 winners. “This year's group of fellows—which includes poets whose passions range from community service to woodworking to scholarship—is especially inspiring because their extraordinary talents are so deeply informed by the way in which they have composed their lives.”
Harmony Holiday was born in Waterloo, Iowa and educated at the University of California at Berkeley and Columbia University. Her debut collection of poems, Negro League Baseball (Fence, 2011), won the Fence Books Motherwell Prize. Go Find your Father/A Famous Blues, a “dos-a-dos” book featuring poetry, letters and essays, is due out from Ricochet Editions in fall 2013. Holiday lives in New York City.
Matthew Nienow was born in Los Angeles in 1983 and spent most of his youth in Seattle. He holds an MFA from the University of Washington and a degree in Traditional Small Craft from the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding. His work has appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, New England Review, Poetry and two editions of the Best New Poets anthology (2007 and 2012). He has received awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Elizabeth George Foundation and Artist Trust, among others. He lives with his wife and two sons in Port Townsend, Washington where he builds boats and custom wooden paddle boards.
Hannah Sanghee Park was born in Tacoma, Washington in 1986. She earned a BA from the University of Washington and an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her chapbook, Ode Days Ode, was published by the Catenary Press in 2011. She is the recipient of fellowships and awards from the Fulbright Program, 4Culture, the Iowa Arts Council/National Endowment for the Arts and the MacDowell Colony. Her work is forthcoming in Best New Poets 2013 and Poetry Northwest. Park lives in Los Angeles and is currently studying at the USC School of Cinematic Arts.
Natalie Shapero was born in Chester, Pennsylvania in 1982. She received a BA from the Johns Hopkins University, an MFA from the Ohio State University and a JD from the University of Chicago Law School. She is the author of the poetry collection No Object (Saturnalia, 2013) and her writing has appeared in The Believer, The New Republic, Poetry, The Progressive and elsewhere. Shapero is a 2012-2014 Kenyon Review fellow at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio.
Phillip B. Williams was born 1986 in Chicago. He is the author of the chapbooks Bruised Gospels (Arts in Bloom Inc., 2011) and Burn (YesYes Books, 2013). Williams is a Cave Canem graduate and the poetry editor of the online journal Vinyl Poetry. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Blackbird, Callaloo, Kenyon Review Online, Painted Bride Quarterly, The Southern Review, West Branch and others. Williams is currently a Chancellor’s Graduate fellow at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri and is working on his MFA in creative writing.
These five emerging voices will be featured in Poetry magazine’s November issue and on poetryfoundation.org.
The Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship program is organized and administered by the Poetry Foundation in Chicago, publisher of Poetry magazine.
Note: In 2014, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowships will become the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowships and the current $15,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship prize amount will nearly double. This increase is the result of a generous gift from the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Fund.
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About the Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship Program
Established in 1989 by Ruth Lilly to encourage the further writing and
study of poetry, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship program has
dramatically expanded since its inception. Until 1995, university
writing programs nationwide each nominated one student poet for a single
fellowship; from 1996 until 2007, two fellowships were awarded. In 2008
the competition was opened to all U.S. poets between 21 and 31 years of
age, and the number of fellowships increased to five, totaling $75,000.
