Barbara Jane Reyes's Blog
April 2, 2009
Salamat y gracias to Camille Dungy for including Poeta en San Francisco in her Poetry Foundation blog discussion of multilingualism and Englishes in American poetry (link is here). She discusses Keith Cartwright, M. NourbeSe Philip, Cathy Park Hong, and myself. An excerpt:
Though [Cathy Park Hong's:] Dance Dance Revolution contains no glossary, the Historian serves as [...:]
Though [Cathy Park Hong's:] Dance Dance Revolution contains no glossary, the Historian serves as [...:]
The assignment is to link a childhood memory with a current experience. Also, to use each end word as the next sentence’s (in my case, line’s) beginning word. I am tweaking that second part of the assignment and instead of necessarily repeating the end word, in some places I’m reinterpreting the end word or giving [...:]
April 1, 2009
Speaking of Filipino American literary criticism, here is yet another good venue for essays and critical readings. Don’t know what to write about? Here are some suggestions.
ASIAN AMERICAN LITERATURE: READING, PEDAGOGY, PRACTICE
Editor:
Noelle Brada-Williams, San José State University
Editorial Board:
Karen Chow, De Anza College
Wei Ming Dariotis, San Francisco State University
Eileen Fung, University of San Francisco
Rowena Tomaneng, De [...:]
ASIAN AMERICAN LITERATURE: READING, PEDAGOGY, PRACTICE
Editor:
Noelle Brada-Williams, San José State University
Editorial Board:
Karen Chow, De Anza College
Wei Ming Dariotis, San Francisco State University
Eileen Fung, University of San Francisco
Rowena Tomaneng, De [...:]
March 31, 2009
This is an old meme, from radical woman of color blogger Professor Susurro: List 25 authors that have influenced you over your life time. (They don’t have to be deep, they just have to have had some impact on your life.) I interpret this to mean that as well as books, novels, stories, essays, poems, the [...:]
March 30, 2009
Hey I’m excited. I will be taking an online writing workshop with Washington based writer, Rebecca Mabanglo-Mayor. Here is an excerpt of her course description:
Using the babaylan concepts of kapwa, loob, and Tao Po! this workshop will focus on creatively expressing our stories through the written word to help us find and create meaning in [...:]
Using the babaylan concepts of kapwa, loob, and Tao Po! this workshop will focus on creatively expressing our stories through the written word to help us find and create meaning in [...:]
March 29, 2009
After hitting the farmers market at Jack London Square, Oscar and I headed into the Barnes and Noble there to see Congresswoman Barbara Lee speak. She’s been discussing her new book, Renegade for Peace & Justice: Congresswoman Barbara Lee Speaks For Me, and I’ve noticed she’s been doing so in so many local indie bookstores. [...:]
March 28, 2009
I’ve just finished reading Marianne Villanueva’s debut collection of short stories, Ginseng and Other Tales from Manila (Calyx Books, 1993). There. I’ve said it. I’ve just read this book 16 years too late, and I’ve read Villanueva’s second book, Mayor of the Roses (Miami University Press, 2005), prior to reading this one.
I am tempted to [...:]
I am tempted to [...:]
March 26, 2009
Once again, more on the Death of Poetry at the Poetry Foundation blog here. And actually, I’d wanted to say a few things about literary criticism, after reading Matthew Zapruder’s essay, “Share Your Work!” which you can also read at the Poetry Foundation website here. So this is just to say that I see a [...:]
March 24, 2009
As I both love my domesticity and strive to be well-rounded (i.e. my life is not all po-biz all the time), here are some updates on the little West Oakland urban patio’s container garden: we’ve planted three tomato plants (husky cherry, yellow heirloom, and something else), two bell pepper plants (yellow and orange), a sweet [...:]
Marianne Villanueva is asking a huge question today:
What is the future of Filipino American Literature?
I want to respond, and I want to do so substantially. I know that “the future” of Filipino American literature is something I and so many of us have been working at for many, many years now.
We can look at API [...:]
What is the future of Filipino American Literature?
I want to respond, and I want to do so substantially. I know that “the future” of Filipino American literature is something I and so many of us have been working at for many, many years now.
We can look at API [...:]
