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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:47:22 -0800</pubDate>
		<title><![CDATA[Acts of Naming]]></title>
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				[Yes, these are just words, but we are writers here, invested in the power of words, the power of naming, the power of writing and speaking a thing into existence.:]<br/>Have you read Edwin Torres's post, "Señor Smith to you," at the Poetry Foundation blog? Torres writes about the recent SPIC UP/Speak OUT! event which took [...:]<img src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bjanepr.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2502502&amp;post=6125&amp;subd=bjanepr&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" alt="" />
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				posted by Barbara Jane Reyes on November, 25
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:44:15 -0800</pubDate>
		<title><![CDATA[Literary Activism and Community Work of Bridging]]></title>
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				Joseph O. Legaspi was interviewed by Ada Yee at the Lantern Review blog. Here is an excerpt:<br/>Just persist on writing. I know so many talented writers across cultural lines who just stop writing. In a way, it becomes an endurance game. So just continue writing our stories.<br/>Support other Asian American writers. Buy their books, go [...:]<img src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bjanepr.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2502502&amp;post=6109&amp;subd=bjanepr&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" alt="" />
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				posted by Barbara Jane Reyes on November, 24
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:48:59 -0800</pubDate>
		<title><![CDATA[Spring 2010: Syllabus Woe]]></title>
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				First thing: My class is in danger of being canceled due to low enrollment. This is a little disheartening. Still, I am pressing ahead with my syllabus for Filipino American Arts, in which we will be reading, viewing, analyzing, discussing Filipino Art as it addresses different periods of Filipino and Filipino American history, as well [...:]<img src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bjanepr.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2502502&amp;post=6101&amp;subd=bjanepr&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" alt="" />
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				posted by Barbara Jane Reyes on November, 22
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:08:28 -0800</pubDate>
		<title><![CDATA[Magical Realism – Mythopoetry – Speculative Fiction]]></title>
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				The other day, a young Pinay writer emailed, to ask some questions about magical realism, how I define it, which communities of writers write it, what are some books falling under this category. While the question kind of came out of nowhere, coincidentally, I'd been thinking about issues tangential to or intersecting with magical realism.<br/>I've [...:]<img src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bjanepr.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2502502&amp;post=6095&amp;subd=bjanepr&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" alt="" />
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				posted by Barbara Jane Reyes on November, 15
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:44:41 -0800</pubDate>
		<title><![CDATA[Teaching Poetic Form in Philippine Studies]]></title>
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				I am on a search for some English material on the balagtasan. As I have previously blogged, I gave a cursory introduction to my students a couple of weeks back. What few specific things I know of balagtasan come from the transcript of a lecture given by Virgilio Almario at the Center for Southeast Asian [...:]<img src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bjanepr.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2502502&amp;post=6085&amp;subd=bjanepr&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" alt="" />
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				posted by Barbara Jane Reyes on November, 14
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:00:34 -0800</pubDate>
		<title><![CDATA[Save the Date: 12/06/09 PAWA Achiote Press Emerging Writers Panel @ SFPL]]></title>
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				Craig Santos Perez has drawn up a flier (below) for our upcoming emerging writers panel at SFPL. I blogged about this a while back (read original post, which is really part of an ongoing series regarding the MFA Industrial Complex), that information and guidance about writing programs should be free and accessible to emerging writers [...:]<img src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bjanepr.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2502502&amp;post=6073&amp;subd=bjanepr&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" alt="" />
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				posted by Barbara Jane Reyes on November, 12
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:00:44 -0800</pubDate>
		<title><![CDATA[Literature and San Francisco: More Thoughts on Being Filipino Here  and not There]]></title>
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				… where ever "there" may be (and here, I don't mean Oakland, which because of Gertrude Stein, is known as "there."). For the purposes of this here blog post, "there" means not the West Coast.<br/>When Luis Francia came to town last month, one thing he marveled about was the deep sense of history our local [...:]<img src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bjanepr.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2502502&amp;post=6049&amp;subd=bjanepr&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" alt="" />
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				posted by Barbara Jane Reyes on November, 11
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:18:52 -0800</pubDate>
		<title><![CDATA[11/10/09 Panel at the Urban Center (SF)]]></title>
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				I need to prepare a presentation for tomorrow evening's Young Urbanists [Literature:] panel. Some guiding questions, as per our moderator, Matthew Zapruder:<br/>• In the introduction to his anthology Writing Los Angeles, editor David Ulin writes "The story of Los Angeles has always been, on the most basic level, the story of the interaction between civilization [...:]<img src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bjanepr.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2502502&amp;post=6043&amp;subd=bjanepr&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" alt="" />
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				posted by Barbara Jane Reyes on November, 14
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:00:37 -0800</pubDate>
		<title><![CDATA[Poetry Foundation: Indie Publishing: Two Questions, Many More Answers]]></title>
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				My 19th post is up on the Poetry Foundation blog. Yes, more responses from independent publishers, as well as some links to ongoing discussions elsewhere in poet e-world.<br/>Many thanks to Brent E. Beltrán and Consuelo Manríquez de Beltrán of Calaca Press, Patrick Durgin of Kenning Editions, and Willie Perdomo of Cypher Books for answering my [...:]<img src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bjanepr.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2502502&amp;post=6040&amp;subd=bjanepr&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" alt="" />
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				posted by Barbara Jane Reyes on November, 06
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:32:18 -0800</pubDate>
		<title><![CDATA[More on Indie Publishing and Poetry Community]]></title>
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				I am currently working on my next Poetry Foundation post, which I think will conclude my series of posts on independent publishing. I am pretty much done with what I mean to write, and am just waiting now, on one or two independent publishers to respond to my two questions.<br/>Actually, if you are reading this, [...:]<img src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bjanepr.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2502502&amp;post=6028&amp;subd=bjanepr&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" alt="" />
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				posted by Barbara Jane Reyes on November, 11
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