Barbara Jane Reyes's Blog
December 1, 2009
One of the tougher things about being an adjunct professor for me has been the difficulty in cultivating community, finding my place in it, participating in it. I suppose I didn't worry about this too much during my last gig, but being in Philippine Studies, at least theoretically, presented an opportunity to do that bridging [...:]
November 30, 2009
Nothing too profound to report over here.
It started with that episode of Angel when he and Spike are arguing over who would win in a fight — caveman vs. astronaut (caveman wins). This turned into a long weekend of watching Spike TV's Deadliest Warrior episodes online (I Twittered this last point yesterday evening, and to [...:]
It started with that episode of Angel when he and Spike are arguing over who would win in a fight — caveman vs. astronaut (caveman wins). This turned into a long weekend of watching Spike TV's Deadliest Warrior episodes online (I Twittered this last point yesterday evening, and to [...:]
November 23, 2009
[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.:]
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 [...:]
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 [...:]
November 19, 2009
Joseph O. Legaspi was interviewed by Ada Yee at the Lantern Review blog. Here is an excerpt:
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.
Support other Asian American writers. Buy their books, go [...:]
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.
Support other Asian American writers. Buy their books, go [...:]
November 16, 2009
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 [...:]
November 14, 2009
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.
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November 13, 2009
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 [...:]
November 12, 2009
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 [...:]
November 11, 2009
… 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.
When Luis Francia came to town last month, one thing he marveled about was the deep sense of history our local [...:]
When Luis Francia came to town last month, one thing he marveled about was the deep sense of history our local [...:]
November 9, 2009
I need to prepare a presentation for tomorrow evening's Young Urbanists [Literature:] panel. Some guiding questions, as per our moderator, Matthew Zapruder:
• 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 [...:]
• 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 [...:]
