Barbara Jane Reyes's Blog
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 [...:]
October 19, 2009
Some good comments coming in to this here blog, and so I thought I'd call your attention to them.
In response to my recent post, "In the Meantime, the Poetic Industrial Complex and Filipino American Authors,"here is my exchange with Gladys:
Gladys: … i love your term "colonial mentality hiya." there's hiya, and then there's the "colonial [...:]
In response to my recent post, "In the Meantime, the Poetic Industrial Complex and Filipino American Authors,"here is my exchange with Gladys:
Gladys: … i love your term "colonial mentality hiya." there's hiya, and then there's the "colonial [...:]
October 18, 2009
Kartika Review is accepting submissions for upcoming issues of our online Asian American literary magazine.
We accept: fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction (memoir, reportage, essays, letters), poetry and visual art by Asian American artists.
We are a quarterly journal We read submissions all year. Simultaneous submission are okay, but please notify us immediately if your work has [...:]
We accept: fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction (memoir, reportage, essays, letters), poetry and visual art by Asian American artists.
We are a quarterly journal We read submissions all year. Simultaneous submission are okay, but please notify us immediately if your work has [...:]
October 17, 2009
Looks like I'll be adjuncting at USF again this coming Spring 2010. I will be teaching the Filipino American Arts course, which I am looking forward to. I need to make sure there is no overlap with the Barrio Fiesta course, which I have been teaching as a multi-genre ekphrastic writing course. For my Arts [...:]
October 16, 2009
I do feel like I am repeating myself on this here blog, and I suppose it's unavoidable. Archives being what they are, that is, the past, we all forget what has been said before.
Here is one of my recent posts, "Deciding (How) To Publish," an explanation of my belief system about the publishing industry for [...:]
Here is one of my recent posts, "Deciding (How) To Publish," an explanation of my belief system about the publishing industry for [...:]
It begins at 10:00 am with Luis Francia's writing workshop at the Bayanihan Center. Info is here.
It continues at 2:00 pm, with the PAWA Arkipelago reading, which features Neela Banerjee, Luis Francia, Alejandro Murguía, and Jean Vengua. Musical guests Bo Razon and Carlos Ziálcita. Info is here.
It continues at Litquake. I will be reading for [...:]
It continues at 2:00 pm, with the PAWA Arkipelago reading, which features Neela Banerjee, Luis Francia, Alejandro Murguía, and Jean Vengua. Musical guests Bo Razon and Carlos Ziálcita. Info is here.
It continues at Litquake. I will be reading for [...:]
October 14, 2009
HI all, I am typing this in the Atlanta airport terminal; I've just re-read Rachel McKibbens's Pink Elephant, so here are my notes, which will soon become a full on review.
Writes of abandonment and abuse without flourish, as fact and as a history of what shapes us, makes us into the adults that we become.
Gives [...:]
Writes of abandonment and abuse without flourish, as fact and as a history of what shapes us, makes us into the adults that we become.
Gives [...:]
October 11, 2009
A comment has been left at my latest Poetry Foundation post on Tony Robles; the commenter states that despite many posts into my time there, s/he still doesn't know much about what I think of poetry, my "poetic way." I am baffled by the comment; this is my response:
I think you will find my voice [...:]
I think you will find my voice [...:]
October 10, 2009
My 15th post, Tony Robles, Filipino Building Maintenance Company (Poor Press Publications, 2009), is up at the Poetry Foundation blog. I am particularly pleased with myself for this one, not only because I count Tony Robles among my personal friends and longtime San Francisco Pinoy poet peers. I have come to appreciate and even need [...:]
