Announcements
Thurs., July 14, 6:30pm
Central Park Arsenal Bldg. Rooftop (64th St. & Fifth Ave.)
Sponsored by The Academy of American Poets, the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
http://www.poets.org/viewevent.php/prmEventID/10162
Tuesday, July 5, 7:00pm
Terraza Cafe, 40-19 Gleane St. (Roosevelt Ave./84th St. Intersection. 7 Train to 82nd St. Stop)
Fordham Lincoln Center 113 W. 60th Street (at Columbus Avenue)
12th Floor Lounge
Directions
Take A, B, C, D & 1 trains to Columbus Circle.
Exit at 60th Street & Broadway. Go west of Columbus Avenue.
Upon entering the glass doors inform the security desk that you are attending the Asian American Poetry event. Take escalators up 1 floor to Plaza level. Take elevator up to the 11th floor. Take stairs 1 flight up to the 12th Floor. Enter 12th Floor Lounge
Kundiman: Love Songs for the Peabody Essex Museum with Ching-In Chen, Jee Leong Koh, Joseph O. Legaspi, Bushra Rehman, Purvi Shah and Yim Tan Wong. For more info: http://masspoetry.crowdvine.com/talks/19110
More here.
Launch Spring with a Yoga-Creative Writing Workshop!
Jump start your creativity while helping out Kundiman.
Join us for a unique and inspiring 2-hour workshop that combines yoga and creative writing. Open to all levels of yoga practitioners and writers. From beginners to those advanced in craft/practice, everyone will benefit from exercises that put you in touch with your body and your imagination. Led by poets Rona Luo, a certified yoga instructor, and Tamiko Beyer, an experienced creative writing instructor.
Proceeds will go to tuition and travel grants for emerging poets attending Kundiman's writing retreat.
Rona Luo explores the body through poetry, yoga and acupuncture. She began studying Chinese Zen meditation at age six, and has served as apprentice to yoga master Maya Breuer. Rona has taught hatha yoga to high school students, seniors and everyone in between. Her classes emphasize breath-linked movement and creative visualization. She works to make yoga accessible to people with disabilities, injuries and low-income. She is a Kundiman Alumnae.
Tamiko Beyer is the author of bough breaks and the poetry editor of Drunken Boat. She is a founding member of Agent 409: a queer writing collective in New York City that has performed across the east coast and led workshops at national conferences such as the U.S. Social Forum. A writing workshops leader for over a decade, Tamiko has worked with groups as varied as homeless LGBT youth, college undergraduates, rural and low-income women, and NY public school children. Her workshops create safe spaces that inspire participants to reach for the heights of their imaginations. She is a Kundiman Alumnae.
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Belladonna* and Kundiman Celebrate Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
On the weekend of what would have been Cha's 60th birthday (a full life cycle event in the Chinese/Korean lunar calendar), Belladonna* and Kundiman gather nine poets to perform a staged reading from Dictee. Cha's best known written work, Dictee focuses on the life of several women framed with the art of the Greek muses, yet in the cosmos of Shamanism and Daoism. Their struggle to speak and overcome suffering is enacted through a mixture of media which destabilizes the notion of a progressive and seamless history.
Join us for an afternoon of projected images, voices, pictorial characters, scholarly contextualization, and a birthday cake.
When: Saturday, March 5 from 2pm to 3:30pm
Where: Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery, NYC
Cost: $8
February 25, 6:30 pm
Reading & Signing: NYFA, Suite 740
Reception: Cave Canem, Suite 310-A
20 Jay Street, DUMBO, Brooklyn
Shovel & Fish: Book Release with Ross Gay & Aimee Nezhukumatathil
A reading and reception to celebrate the release of Bringing the Shovel Down, Ross Gay's second collection, and Lucky Fish, a new collection by Aimee Nezhukumatathil. Co-sponsored by Cave Canem.
More info here.
Featuring: Jennifer Chang, Sarah Gambito, Margaret Rhee, Andre Yang, Neil Aitken, Tamiko Beyer
While Kundiman is known for its annual retreat and its dedication to the promotion and cultivation of Asian American poetry, what often goes unmentioned is the civic, social, and community work that extends beyond the space of the retreat. Faculty members, fellows, and Kundiman founders will discuss the tenets of community building as it relates to Kundiman, but will also discuss how they channeled and even extended the premise of community building beyond the Kundiman retreat space.
Noon.-1:15 p.m
Ambassador Ballroom, Omni Shoreham Hotel, West Lobby
Washington, DC
More info here.
Featuring Esther Lee, Gary Jackson, Cynthia Arrieu-King, Neil Aitken, Purvi Shah
Representing an array of diverse voices and aesthetics, these poets will share work from their recently-published first books, as well as how organizations like Kundiman, a retreat for Asian American poets, and its community has affected their artistic lives. Along with sharing the joys and challenges of publishing their first poetry collections, they will also discuss how their work pushes against the boxed-in stereotypes that exist about writers of color and their experiences in America.
3:00 p.m.-4:15 p.m.
Coolidge Room, Marriott Wardman Park, Mezzanine Level
Washington, DC
