Barbara Jane Reyes's Blog
September 28, 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, October 17, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Who: Writers Neelanjana Banerjee, Luis Francia, Alejandro Murguía, and Jean Vengua. Musical guests Chris Planas and Carlos Ziálcita.
This event is free and open to the [...:]
Where: The Bayanihan Center 1010 Mission Street @ 6th Street, San Francisco
When: Saturday, October 17, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Who: Writers Neelanjana Banerjee, Luis Francia, Alejandro Murguía, and Jean Vengua. Musical guests Chris Planas and Carlos Ziálcita.
This event is free and open to the [...:]
September 25, 2009
So, what do you think? Too much? Just right?
"Upland Dance" was written after the Ifugao Music and Dance Ensemble of Banaue San Francisco performance, September 2007. The words ima, pagay, billít, and angin are Ilocano words meaning "hand," "rice plant," "bird," and "wind." Kastoy means "like this."
"Duyong 1" uses "salvaged" in the term's Philippine context. [...:]
"Upland Dance" was written after the Ifugao Music and Dance Ensemble of Banaue San Francisco performance, September 2007. The words ima, pagay, billít, and angin are Ilocano words meaning "hand," "rice plant," "bird," and "wind." Kastoy means "like this."
"Duyong 1" uses "salvaged" in the term's Philippine context. [...:]
September 24, 2009
Re: Aborted poetic projects. I've been second guessing my reasons for stopping a project dead in its tracks. With all of this blog reorganization, and with all of these final Diwata edits, I have been sifting through my old work and thinking about the poems I consider the stragglers. These are the ones which have [...:]
September 21, 2009
Whew! I've just received three pages of editorial comments from Peter Connors at BOA Editions on Diwata. I have to say, the comments are really good! I suppose I was afraid I'd feel worthless after having a professional and very experienced editor's eyes all over Diwata. But today, let me tell you, it feels great.
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September 20, 2009
Oscar has posted video and photos of yesterday's PAWA Arkipelago reading featuring Oliver de la Paz, Mari L'Esperance, Theresa Calpotura, and Joseph O. Legaspi. The reading and performance went very well. As often happens, we find that the artists' works end up complementing one another in ways we hadn't foreseen. Another thing: What the photos [...:]
September 18, 2009
As you may already know, Craig and Oscar have both moved over to WordPress (Oscar's is a self-hosted WordPress site). Both of them have very clean sites. They've inspired me to reorganize my blog pages, as I plan to move over to a self-hosted WordPress site. Ideally this will happen at the beginning of 2010.
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September 17, 2009
My tenth post, Catalina Cariaga, Cultural Evidence (Subpress Collective, 1999), is up at the Poetry Foundation blog. Here's an excerpt:
Of course
they didn't eat dogs.
They didn't have dogs.
If they had dogs
they would have eaten them.
–Catalina Cariaga
This poem, "Dogmeat," is one of the opening poems to Catalina Cariaga's Cultural Evidence (Subpress Collective). I really can't think of [...:]
Of course
they didn't eat dogs.
They didn't have dogs.
If they had dogs
they would have eaten them.
–Catalina Cariaga
This poem, "Dogmeat," is one of the opening poems to Catalina Cariaga's Cultural Evidence (Subpress Collective). I really can't think of [...:]
September 16, 2009
Hi all, here are two really great events I hope you will come out for (Berkeley and SF).
Also below is a list of our events – at Litquake, and in collaboration with Arkipelago Books, Kularts, and Achiote Press 'til the end of 2009.
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Also below is a list of our events – at Litquake, and in collaboration with Arkipelago Books, Kularts, and Achiote Press 'til the end of 2009.
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September 15, 2009
Today in class, we discussed storytelling — where it takes place today, where folks gather. Who gathers/who comes together as a community, and what stories are told? How are these stories told? This discussion came out of Juan Felipe Herrera's UC Riverside talk, "A Natural History of Chicano Literature," which you can watch here.
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September 14, 2009
My ninth post, Frances Chung, Crazy Melon and Chinese Apple (Wesleyan University Press, 2000), has gone up at the Poetry Foundation blog.
My blog post, Small Press: Kenji Liu, You Left Without Your Shoes, has gone up on the Hyphen magazine blog.
Blog Update 1. In the header (above), you may notice some new pages: I've consolidated [...:]
My blog post, Small Press: Kenji Liu, You Left Without Your Shoes, has gone up on the Hyphen magazine blog.
Blog Update 1. In the header (above), you may notice some new pages: I've consolidated [...:]
