Barbara Jane Reyes's Blog
November 4, 2009
Something Susan Schultz wrote in her response to my indie publishing questions has me thinking.
My frustration at the moment comes of the fact that no publisher can demand her customers read the press as well as its authors. So the conversations we mean to get going are sometimes overlooked when people buy only work by [...:]
My frustration at the moment comes of the fact that no publisher can demand her customers read the press as well as its authors. So the conversations we mean to get going are sometimes overlooked when people buy only work by [...:]
November 1, 2009
Thanks to Steve Evans of Third Factory for including me in this year's Attention Span.
Below is my list that I submitted a few weeks (months?) ago, of work currently on my radar, in my head, and/or on my reading list (if you read my blog, you already know this):
Suheir Hammad | breaking poems | Cypher [...:]
Below is my list that I submitted a few weeks (months?) ago, of work currently on my radar, in my head, and/or on my reading list (if you read my blog, you already know this):
Suheir Hammad | breaking poems | Cypher [...:]
October 31, 2009
My 18th post, Indie Publishing: Two Questions and More Answers, is up at the Poetry Foundation blog. This is a continuation of my previous indie publishing post, in which I asked the questions, "Why did you start your small press/why did you become an independent publisher? What need was not being met by the existing [...:]
October 29, 2009
YOUNG URBANISTS
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 6:00pm
[Literature:] in the city
From the Beat movement and City Lights to McSweeney's, San Francisco has been shaped by its literary history. But this history does not simply lie in the texts produced by the writers—it was also a history produced in the city's fabric, in literary movements that defined [...:]
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 6:00pm
[Literature:] in the city
From the Beat movement and City Lights to McSweeney's, San Francisco has been shaped by its literary history. But this history does not simply lie in the texts produced by the writers—it was also a history produced in the city's fabric, in literary movements that defined [...:]
October 27, 2009
My 17th post, Indie Publishing: Two Questions and Several Answers, is up on the Poetry Foundation blog. For this post, I've asked Eileen Tabios, Francisco Aragón, Reb Livingston, and Rusty Morrison the following questions: Why did you start your small press/why did you become an independent publisher? What need was not being met by the [...:]
October 26, 2009
Please join us for the next reading in the PAWA Arkipelago Reading Series
Where: The Bayanihan Center 1010 Mission Street @ 6th Street, San Francisco
When: Saturday, November 7, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Who: Writers Justin Chin, Sarah Gambito, and Marianne Vilanueva. Musical guests Myrna del Río and Bo Razon.
This event is free and open to the public!
[...:]
Where: The Bayanihan Center 1010 Mission Street @ 6th Street, San Francisco
When: Saturday, November 7, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Who: Writers Justin Chin, Sarah Gambito, and Marianne Vilanueva. Musical guests Myrna del Río and Bo Razon.
This event is free and open to the public!
[...:]
October 24, 2009
Something of a fruitful discussion is going on over at the Poetry Foundation blog, in response to my Rachel McKibbens post. It isn't directly regarding her work, since as the commenters go, I seem to be the only who has read her book (it's barely been released, and her book launch is next week), and [...:]
October 21, 2009
If you have a look at my Events page, you may notice I am scheduled to speak in a few places on writing, being a writer, and being a member of writing communities. So this means, more gigs about the writing life and work rather than gigs in which I get to actually share my [...:]
October 20, 2009
Yes it's true. I am especially proud of my students today. They submitted their writing portfolios, containing new and revised work. Some very creative presentations. Before this however, a few of them were brave enough to read and perform their work for the class. In an effort to be culturally relevant, as I am teaching [...:]
My 16th post, Rachel McKibbens, Pink Elephant (Cypher Books, 2009), is up at the Poetry Foundation blog. Here is an excerpt:
Rachel McKibbens's lovely and serrated debut collection, Pink Elephant (Cypher Books), reminds us why poetry as testimony is so necessary. Ex-punk rock chola and mother of five, 2009 Women's Individual World Poetry Slam champion Rachel [...:]
Rachel McKibbens's lovely and serrated debut collection, Pink Elephant (Cypher Books), reminds us why poetry as testimony is so necessary. Ex-punk rock chola and mother of five, 2009 Women's Individual World Poetry Slam champion Rachel [...:]
