Currently the Kaya Press office is practically overflowing with champagne and rainbows of confetti upon the announcement that one of our golden geese, Nicholas Wong, has just won a LAMBDA award for his poetry collection, Crevasse! Wong co-won the prestigious award in the category of “Gay Poetry” with author Carl Phillips in a ceremony hosted […]
Join R. Zamora Linmark as he tours America in support of Kaya’s re-release of the modern classic Rolling the R’s. Tour Dates March 28th, 7 PM at University of Southern California Rolling the R’s: Literary Revolutions in the Asian Pacific Diaspora with Jessica Hagedorn and Lois-Ann Yamanaka Friends of the USC Libraries Lecture Hall, Doheny Memorial […]
This past September, we hosted a booth at the literary extravaganza that is the Brooklyn Book Festival in New York. Our return to the Festival after not participating for several years was definitely a hit, largely due to our diverse plethora of featured activities! Highlights from the Brooklyn Book Festival: 1. Kaya and Kundiman […]
The launch of Lydia’s Funeral Video in NYC was a fun night of conversation between Kaya authors, Sam Chanse and Ed Lin. Both authors’ sense of humor shines through the page, and at this event, they shone on the stage. The two covered many topics–from the influence of San Francisco on the play to the […]
Celebrate the release of LYDIA’S FUNERAL VIDEO in New York! Sam Chanse reads and then discusses the book with Ed Lin. RSVP on Facebook! About the book: Lydia’s Funeral Video, a one-woman play that takes that most existential of quandaries — to be or not to be — and transposes it onto a dystopian not-so-distant […]
Friday, September 18, 2015 7:00 PM Unnameable Books, 600 Vanderbilt Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11238 Poets Yesenia Montilla and Angel Nafis join nonfiction writer Amarnath Ravva and fiction writer Gina Apostol to celebrate writers of color. The authors will read from New York-based writers of color that have influenced them, and from their own work. This reading is […]
