Critic Aaron Bady at the New Inquiry recently highlighted Shailja Patel’s MIGRITUDE on his blog Zunguzungu. Patel’s text is part memoir and part political history, a hybrid of poetry and performance in written form to create a portrait of women’s lives and migrant journeys. It nearly topped Bady’s list of African must-reads. He movingly describes the impact of […]
Kaya Press is thrilled to announce the official launch of Gene Oishi’s novel, Fox Drum Bebop! Fox Drum Bebop is a retelling of the Japanese American narrative, a semi-autobiographical account of Gene Oishi’s own experiences during and after internment at a concentration camp. The author describes Fox Drum Bebop as his own way to “tell a story that was bigger than myself, to […]
Last week, Sundance announced the artists participating in their next Playwrights & Composers Retreat at Ucross Foundation—among them is Kaya author Sam Chanse. A big congrats to Sam and the six other artists! These artists will get to spend three weeks in February 2015 at Ucross Foundation, a residency program in Wyoming where artists will “both contribute to […]
Last Tuesday, November 18th, Gene Oishi launched his novel Fox Drum Bebop with a modest celebration in Baltimore. Fifty people attended the event at the Mt. Washington Conference Center, hosted by Madeleine Mysko–a writer and friend of Oishi. The Ivy Bookshop provided a table for signings and sold out their copies of Fox Drum Bebop! After […]
On the afternoon of November 19th, Kaya Students for Independent Publishing and American Institute of Graphic Arts USC set up shop on the southwest side of campus. The venue–Parkside Performance Cafe–provided a cozy space for student-run organizations and indie creators to present their works. The turnout exceeded our expectations and led to plenty of sales, great […]
This past Tuesday, November 18th, we teamed up with Haven Lin-Kirk and Advanced Design students at USC’s Roski School of Art and Design for a manifesto writing workshop. Attendees chose from multiple forms to begin their work, including typewriters, dip pens, and permanent marker. Imaginative quotes were plastered to the walls of the Helen Lindhurst […]
