(Guest Post by Claire Light) KSW is hiring! As you may have heard, our program manager Lisa Leong has left KSW. KSW’s Board of Directors and I are taking this opportunity to restructure the staff. To that end, we’re posting three job descriptions, and will hire some configuration of those depending upon the strengths of […]
The Atlantic: Cities recently featured our book, HYPERART: THOMASSON on their blog. With an interesting look at artist Genpei Akasegawa. Click here to read. About the book: In the 1980s, through submissions from students and readers, Akasegawa collected and printed photos of Thomassons in a column in Super Photo Magazine. He wrote these columns with a warm, […]
www.tongueandgroovela.com (LOS ANGELES, Ca.)—(May 2, 2012)— In celebration of National Asian American/Pacific Islanders Heritage month, Conrad Romo’s Tongue and Groove Series would like to announce a series of events throughout Los Angeles featuring Asian American writers from both the East and West Coasts to include: Chiwan Choi, Ed Lin, Frannie Choi, Traci Kato Kiriyama, Suzanne […]
Participate in Kaya Press’ “Animating Poetry Contest – Vote for Your Favorite!” contest on Facebook for a chance to win a signed copy of Shailja Patel’s tour-de-force book Migritude. Students from Parsons the New School for Design were asked to interpret one of Patel’s poems “Shilling Love” in Ken Tanabe’s Motion Graphics 2 class. Check […]
Tonight (and 7x hereafter!) Shailja Patel on KQED Spark! TV Starting tonight on KQED, Shailja Patel will perform from her one woman show and poetic memoir, Migritude. Migritude is forthcoming from Kaya in smoking hot book form, November, 2010. Showtimes: KQED 9HD Wed, Oct 6, 2010 — 7:30pm Thu, Oct 7, 2010 — 1:30am Fri, […]
“If, as Lisa Chen herself advises in “Translator’s Apologia,” you “…Enter these pages with / The lowered expectations of a prison guard,” you may be pleasantly surprised by the pointed coherence that frequently emerges from Chen’s fantastic verbiage….” Here’s the complete review from POETRY FLASH’s “Mostly Books”, in April of 2010: A Porch Light at […]
