Recently, the Poets & Writers blog featured a post by Kaya author Koon Woon, in which he writes about how poetry kept him afloat as he dealt with mental illness. You can read an excerpt from the post below: It might sound like a stretch, but poetry saved my life—along with the care of psychotherapists, […]
Come to the Japanese American National Museum this weekend for a celebration of Carlos Bulosan’s life and work. You can read a sample of his poetry on the Poetry Foundation website.
Lit lovers worldwide: Kaya is in Germany for the Frankfurt Book Fair, October 9-13! This is the world’s largest trade fair for books, this year featuring more than 3,600 events. Earlier today, Friday, October 11, Kaya Publisher Sunyoung Lee participated in a panel discussion on “The Secret to Establishing a Vertical Marketplace,” along with representatives […]
On the top is a photograph of an original, self-published (circa 1935) copy of H.T. Tsiang’s The Hanging on Union Square—a satiric, quasi-experimental novel that explores leftist politics in Depression-era New York. True to Tsiang’s radical aesthetic, the original copy does not show the title of the book, instead questioning what a book cover really […]
New Yorkers: go participate in this amazing underground publishing event by our friends at WRIT LARGE PRESS, featuring Kaya writers Ed Lin and Thaddeus Rutkowski, among many others. Hosted by S2A (www.s2anyc.com), PUBLISH! questions the notion of writing as a private, solitary act and re-imagines the publishing process as an act of announcing. Over the […]
Literature lovers far & wide: Come visit the Kaya Press and USC Master of Professional Writing Program’s SMOKIN’ HOT LIT LOUNGE (Booth 380 in Founders Park) at the LA Times Festival of Books! Dedicated to books, writing, independent publishing, and FUN: our booth features interactive lit activities for all ages, LA’s finest small presses, and a […]
