March 23 Kundiman & Verlaine Reading with J. Mae Barizo, Tina Chang, & Emily Yoon

Kundiman & Verlaine Reading with J. Mae Barizo, Tina Chang, & Emily Yoon

Sunday, March 23rd, 2013, 4pm

Happy spring, everyone! Join us for an evening of poetry & libation at the Lower East Side's Verlaine. Come early for open bar! Stay after for Verlaine's delicious happy hour specials. 

Open bar 4pm-5pm
Open mic 4:30-5pm
Feature reading begins 5pm
$5 suggested donation

Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/469897616471950/

J. Mae Barizo, poet and cultural critic, was a Kundiman Prize and Kinereth Gensler award finalist for Alice James Books. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Los Angeles Review of Books, Boston Review, Hyperallergic, Paris Review Online, Nylon Magazine, Denver Quarterly and many more. She attended Bennington College, where she was awarded the Jane Kenyon Award for poetry. She is a 2014 Poet's House fellow, and her first book, The Cumulus Effect will be published by Four Way Books. A champion of cross-genre works and performatic poetics, J. Mae has collaborated with musicians from the The National, Bon Iver, and the American String Quartet. She lives in New York City.

Emily Yoon is a first-year MFA in Poetry student at New York University. She admires the subtlety in expression and unique intimacy with nature in traditional Korean poetry, and aims to capture such qualities in her own work. Previous honors she has received for poetry include International Merit Award from the Atlanta Review, Poem of Distinction in the Writecorner Press Poetry Awards, 1st Place in the Iris N. Spencer Poetry Contest, and publication on the APIARY magazine online.

Tina Chang is the Poet Laureate of Brooklyn. She is the author of the poetry collections Half-Lit Houses and Of Gods & Strangers (Four Way Books) and co-editor of the anthology Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia and Beyond (W.W. Norton, 2008) along with Nathalie Handal and Ravi Shankar. Her poems have appeared in American Poet, McSweeney’s, Ploughshares, The New York Times among others. She currently teaches poetry at Sarah Lawrence College and is an international faculty member at the City University at Hong Kong.

 

Verlaine

110 Rivington St.
(Ludlow & Essex Sts.)
New York, NY 10012
212-614-2494 
F train to Delancey

This event was funded in part by Poets & Writers, Inc. with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. 

Tamiko Beyer and Busha Rehman are Lambda Literary Award Finalists

Major congrats, dear Tamiko and dear Bushra!

LESBIAN POETRY

• A Wild Surmise: New & Selected Poems & Recordings, Eloise Klein Healy, Red Hen Press
• Chopper! Chopper! Poetry From Bordered Lives, Veronica Reyes, Red Hen Press/Arktoi Books
• Chord Box, Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers, The University of Arkansas Press
• The Collected Poems of Ai, Ai, W.W. Norton & Company
• The Exchange, Sophie Cabot Black, Graywolf Press
• Proxy, R. Erica Doyle, Belladonna Collaborative
• Rise in the Fall, Ana Bozicevic, Birds, LLC
• She Has a Name, Kamilah Aisha Moon, Four Way Books
• Viral, Suzanne Parker, Alice James Books
• We Come Elemental, Tamiko Beyer, Alice James Books

BISEXUAL FICTION

• Corona, Bushra Rehman, Sibling Rivalry Press
• Hild: A Novel, Nicola Griffith, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• In His Secret Life, Mel Bossa, Bold Strokes Books
• My Education, Susan Choi, Penguin Group/Viking
• The Two Hotel Francforts: A Novel, David Leavitt, Bloomsbury

For more information, please click here: http://www.lambdaliterary.org/features/news/03/06/26th-annual-lambda-literary-award-finalists-announced/

Feb 23. Kundiman Reading in DC with Michelle Chan Brown, Tung-Hui Hu, and Subhashini Kaligotla

February 23, 2014
5:30pm-7:30pm
Bloombars
3222 11th St NW 
Washington, DC, 20010

$10 donation 

Three Kundiman poets (fellows and former faculty) -- Tung-Hui Hu, Michelle Chan Brown, and Subhashini Kaligotla -- come together for a night of poetry, sharing new work. Kundiman is an Asian American poetry organization that cultivates and promotes new generations of Asian American poets. This is Kundiman’s first reading in DC.

Facebook event page here: https://www.facebook.com/events/132722683565152/

About the Poets: 

MICHELLE CHAN BROWN's Double Agent received the 2012 Kore Press First Book Award. A chapbook,The Clever Decoys, is available from LATR editions. Poems and reviews have appeared in Blackbird, Cimarron Review, The Journal, Linebreak, Missouri Review, Quarterly West, Sycamore Review, Witness and others, as well as forthcoming anthologies; two poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She has received scholarships from the Vermont Studio Center, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the Wesleyan Writers’ Conference. A Kundiman fellow, Michelle lives in DC, where she teaches, writes and edits Drunken Boat.

SUBHASHINI KALIGOTLA's poems have appeared in such journals as Boxcar Poetry Review, Drunken Boat, LUMINA, New England Review, and The Literary Review, and in anthologies published in India, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Her writing has benefited from the support of Hedgebrook, Sanskriti Kendra (New Delhi), the Fulbright Program, and Columbia University. Subhashini is currently a fellow at the National Gallery of Art, where she is writing her doctoral dissertation on Indian temple architecture.

TUNG-HUI HU is the author of three collections of poetry, The Book of Motion (Georgia, 2003), Mine (Ausable/Copper Canyon, 2007), and Greenhouses, Lighthouses (Copper Canyon, 2013). His poems have appeared in places such as Boston Review, The New Republic, Ploughshares, Gastronomica, and, most recently, the SoundWalk festival of sound art in Long Beach, CA. Hu teaches at the University of Michigan, where Hu teaches at the University of Michigan, where he is an assistant professor of English.

For more Kundiman events, please visit our events page at www.kundiman.org/events

Feb. 18 NYC Word for Word Poetry Reading with April Naoko Heck, Purvi Shah, and Ocean Vuong

Word for Word Reading Series at Bryant Park

Join Word for Word Poetry in partnership with Kundiman for a reading by April Naoko Heck, Purvi Shah & Ocean Vuong. 

Tuesday, February 18, 2014, 6pm
Kinokuniya Bookstore
1073 Avenue of the Americas
(Between 40th & 41st St)
New York, NY 10018

Facebook event page here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1458238237721872/

The 2014 Kundiman Poetry Prize: Last Call for Submissions! Deadline 3/15

The Kundiman Poetry Prize

Published by Alice James Books 
an affiliate of The University of Maine at Farmington

Deadline for submission:
March 15, 2014

The Kundiman Poetry Prize is dedicated to publishing exceptional work by Asian American poets. Winner receives $1,000 and book publication with Alice James Books.

Submit now! 

For more information, visit our prize page here: www.kundiman.org/prize

And to submit electronically, click here: https://kundiman.submittable.com/submit/26452

Alice James Books

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.

Eligibility

Asian American writers living in the United States.

General Guidelines

• Reading period begins January 15.

• Manuscripts must be typed, paginated, and 50 – 70 pages in length (single spaced).

• Individual poems from the manuscript may have been previously published in magazines, anthologies, or chapbooks of less than 25 pages, but the collection as a whole must be unpublished. Translations and self-published books are not eligible. No multi-authored collections, please.

• Manuscripts must have a table of contents and include a list of acknowledgments for poems previously published. The inclusion of a biographical note is optional. Your name, mailing address, email address and phone number should appear on the title page of your manuscript. 

• No illustrations, photographs or images should be included.

• The Kundiman Poetry Prize is judged by consensus of the members of Kundiman's Artistic Staff and the Alice James Books Editorial Board. Manuscripts are not read anonymously. Learn more about our judging process.

• Winners will be announced in June.

Guidelines for Electronic Manuscript Submission

Click here to access the Electronic Submission Application between January 15 and March 15.

Guidelines for Print
Manuscript Submission

Should you wish to submit your manuscript via postal mail, mail your entry to:

Kundiman
P.O. Box 4248
Sunnyside, NY 11104

Send one copy of your manuscript submission with two copies of the title page. Use only binder clips. No staples, folders, or printer-bound copies.

MANUSCRIPTS CANNOT BE RETURNED. Please do not send us your only copy.

Entry fee is $28.  Checks or money orders should be made out to Alice James Books. On the memo line of your check, writeThe Kundiman Poetry Prize.

Checklist for print manuscript entry:

• One (1) copy of manuscript enclosed, with acknowledgements and two (2) copies of title page
• $28 entry fee
• Business sized SASE
• Stamped addressed postcard
• Postmarked between January 15
  and March 15

Lantern Review previews 2014 books by Cathy Linh Che, Oliver de la Paz, Tarfia Faizullah, Sally Wen Mao, Eugenia Leigh, W. Todd Kaneko, and R.A. Villanueva.

Congrats, dear fellows!

From Lantern Review editor Iris A. Law: 

"Today, just in time for the start of the year of the lunar new year, we’re finishing off our two-part roundup of books that we’re looking forward to in 2014.  Last week’s post (part 1) focused on recently published titles, while today’s (part 2) focuses on forthcoming books that are due out later this year.

Note: the books discussed below are divided by category according to whether they are currently available for pre-order, or whether specific details of their release have, as of this posting, yet to be announced. For each category, books are listed alphabetically by author."

Available for Pre-order

Split by Cathy Linh Che (forthcoming from Alice James Books in April 2014)

Turn by Wendy Chin-Tanner (forthcoming from Sibling Rivalry Press in March 2014)

Post Subject by Oliver de la Paz (forthcoming from U of Akron Press in August 2014)

Seam by Tarfia Faizullah (forthcoming from SIU Press in March 2014)

Mad Honey Symposium by Sally Wen Mao (forthcoming from Alice James Books in May 2014)

Forthcoming (Specific Details to Come)

Picture Dictionary by Kristen Eliason (forthcoming from Flaming Giblet in 2014)

Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows by Eugenia Leigh (forthcoming from Four Way Books in fall 2014)

The Dead Wrestler Elegies by W. Todd Kaneko (forthcoming from Curbside Splendor in 2014)

Reliquaria by R. A. Villanueva (forthcoming from U of Nebraska Press in fall 2014)

For the full post, click on the link below:

http://www.lanternreview.com/blog/2014/01/31/editors-corner-books-were-looking-forward-to-in-2014-part-2/

Jan. 28 After the Fire: New Poems for Hiroshima--April Naoko Heck, Cynthia Lowen, and special guest Lee Ann Roripaugh

Please join us for readings from two new poetry collections about Hiroshima and the atomic age by April Naoko Heck & Cynthia Lowen, with special guest & Kundiman faculty member Lee Ann Roripaugh traveling from South Dakota to read, reflect, and moderate a conversation with the audience.

Tuesday, January 28, 2014
7pm
KGB Bar & Lit Mag
85 East 4th Street
New York, New York 10003

This reading has been made possible in part by funds from Poets & Writers with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

Tarfia Faizullah has poems published in the current issue of the American Poetry Review

Congrats, dear Tarfia!

Tarfia Faizullah is the author of Seam (Southern Illinois University Press, 2014), winner of the 2012 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry’s First Book Award.

from "West Texas Nocturne"

Because the sky burned, I had to unhinge
from the window the mesh screen
to step out onto the roof where the world was
an orange freshly peeled.

Read more here: https://www.aprweb.org/poem/west-texas-nocturne

Douglas Brown's Zero to Three wins the 2013 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, selected by Tracy K. Smith

Congrats, dear Douglas!

2013 Cave Canem Poetry Prize Winner

Cave Canem is pleased to announce the winner of the 2013 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, selected by Tracy K. Smith!

  Douglas Brown
     for
    Zero to Three

“These poems lead us from the birth cry in a hospital delivery room, to dusk and revelry in Spain, to modern-day Florida and history-laden Mississippi where Trayvon Martin and Emmitt Till were slain.  Even when what Brown has set out to do is grieve loss, his lines move with a buoyant, marrow-deep music, percussive and rich. They move like ‘a train, bound to a destination’ and they arrive with ‘the crackle lightning makes when it hits.’”

--Tracy K. Smith

Zero to Three will be published by The University of Georgia Press in fall 2014. 

Last chance to apply for the 2014 Kundiman Poetry Retreat! Deadline: 2/1/2014, 11:59pm EST

2014 Kundiman Asian American Poetry Retreat
 

Deadline to apply: 2/1/2014

June 18 - 22, 2014
Fordham University
Rose Hill Campus
New York City

Faculty: Marilyn Chin, Eugene Gloria, & Michelle Naka Pierce

Apply now for the Kundiman Asian American Poetry Retreat--and spread the word! Accepted fellows will gather in New York City for five days of writing, community building, and workshopping. Submit five to seven pages of poetry, a cover letter with a brief paragraph explaining what you would like to accomplish at the Kundiman Poetry Retreat, and $15 application fee. Our retreat application is open to anyone who identifies as Asian American. If you are selected to attend, please know that the non-refundable tuition fee is $375. Room and board are free to accepted Fellows. The deadline is February 1st, and we only accept applications online.

Click here to access application: 
https://kundiman.submittable.com/submit/7030

For more information on the retreat, check out this video:
http://vimeo.com/72058947 

and visit our retreat page at:
kundiman.org/retreat

Marilyn Chin is an award-winning poet and the author of Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen, Rhapsody in Plain Yellow, The Phoenix Gone, the Terrace Empty and Dwarf Bamboo. Her writing has appeared in The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry. She was born in Hong Kong and raised in Portland, Oregon. Her books have become Asian American classics and are taught in classrooms internationally. 

Eugene Gloria earned his BA from San Francisco State University, his MA from Miami University of Ohio, and his MFA from the University of Oregon. He is the author of three books of poems -- My Favorite Warlord (Penguin, 2012), Hoodlum Birds (Penguin, 2006) and Drivers at the Short-Time Motel (Penguin, 2000). He teaches creative writing and English literature at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana.

Award winning poet Michelle Naka Pierce is the author of four chapbooks and four full-length books, including TRI/VIA (Erudite Fangs/PUB LUSH, 2003) co-authored with Veronica Corpuz; Beloved Integer (Bootstrap/PUB LUSH, 2007); She, A Blueprint (BlazeVOX, 2011) with art by Sue Hammond West; and Continuous Frieze Bordering Red (Fordham, 2012), awarded the Poets Out Loud Editor’s Prize. Pierce has collaborated with artists, dancers, and filmmakers and has performed her work internationally, most recently in France and in Japan. With J’Lyn Chapman, she is the editor of Something on Paper, an online poetics journal: www.somethingonpaper.org. She teaches in and directs the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. Currently, she lives in Colorado with the poet Chris Pusateri.

Thank you, and we look forward to your applications!

If you have any questions, feel free to contact us at info@kundiman.org.

Cheers,

Kundiman