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Join us March 24 in DC for Split This Rock: Intersecting Lineages

Intersecting Lineages: a Solidarity Showcase of African American and Asian American Poets
Featuring: Kazim Ali, Ching-In Chen, Rio Cortez, Rachelle Cruz, Monica A. Hand, Alan King, Natasha Marin, Soham Patel, Kevin Simmonds

Saturday, March 24th
9:30 - 11 am
True Reformer Building, Auditorium
1200 U Street NW, Washington, DC
publicwelfare.org

Inspired by the collaboration and mentorship between Cave Canem (an organization which promotes African American poetry) and Kundiman (an organization which promotes Asian American poetry), this reading features poets hailing from these communities which will showcase the history of solidarity amongst diverse communities. Kazim Ali, Ching-In Chen, Rio Cortez, Rachelle Cruz, Monica A. Hand, Alan King, Natasha Marin, Soham Patel, and Kevin Simmonds will begin by reading work by ancestor poets who are considered outside of their self-identified community/-ities. Following this, they will share their own work which highlights this kind of productive hybrid fertilization, including inspiration taken from various literary and other creative arts forms such as the zuihitsu, neo-benshi and the theatrical jazz aesthetic. This reading highlights the cultivation and growth which arises from the exchange between African American and Asian American poets.

This is a Split This Rock Poetry Festival event. You must be registered to attend.
For more information, please check out the Split This Rock website here: http://www.splitthisrock.org/festival2012/festival2012.html

March 13: Critical Consideration with TWANY Performance Excerpt!

Join Us and AALR to Respond to the Decade Since 9/11

Including Together We Are New York: A Polyphonic Performance of Poetry and Audio Clips

Featured poets: Marlon Esguerra, April Naoko Heck, Eugenia Leigh, Zohra Saed, and Purvi Shah

Tuesday, March 13, 6-8 p.m.

Roosevelt House

47-49 E. 65th St. (Between Park & Madison)

Manhattan, NY

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, BUT SEATING IS LIMITED

PLEASE RSVP TO 212.396.7946

For more details and program information, go to Kavad.

March 2: Kundiman at AWP, Experiments in Individual Solace and Collective Safety-- Five Days of Crafting Poetry

10:30 - 11: 45 am

Experiments in Individual Solace and Collective Safety: Five Days of Crafting Poetry at the Kundiman Writers’ Retreat
(Sarah Gambito, Cathy Linh Che, Myung Mi Kim, Patrick Rosal, Prageeta Sharma)
Lake Ontario, Hilton Chicago, 8th Floor
Kundiman fosters Asian American poets to find their voices by probing culture and aesthetics during its retreat. Kundiman faculty and fellows will discuss innovative pedagogical approaches in workshops, mentorship sessions, readings, and poetry clinics to enable poetic development and community-building. We will explore topics like: How should one teach to a cohort with different aesthetic interests and levels of workshop experience? What compact lessons work for poets just meeting each other?

Dec. 18: Final 2011 Together We Are New York show!

Join Us to Remember and Re-Vision 9/11

A Polyphonic Performance of Poetry and Audio Clips Followed by a Dialogue and Reception

Sunday, Dec. 18, 7-9 p.m.

Chen Dance Center

70 Mulberry St., 2nd Floor

Manhattan, NY (Chinatown)

FREE and open to the public

Featured poets: Marlon Esguerra, April Naoko Heck, Eugenia Leigh, Zohra Saed, and Purvi Shah

For more details and program information, go to Kavad.

Oct. 23 Kundiman & Verlaine Reading Series

Kundiman & Verlaine present

An evening of poetry & libation

Featuring:
R. Zamora Linmark, Sasha Pimentel Chacon & Hanalei Ramos

Sunday, Oct. 23
Reading begins at 5 p.m.
Open Bar from 4-5 p.m.
At Verlaine: 110 Rivington St. b/w Ludlow & Essex Sts. [directions: F to Delancey or V to 2nd Ave.]
$5 suggested donation

R. Zamora Linmark has authored three poetry collections, Prime Time Apparitions The Evolution of a Sigh, and Drive-By Vigils, all from Hanging Loose Press, and two novels, the best-selling Rolling The R's, which he's adapted for the stage, and the just-published Leche. He resides in Honolulu and Manila, and is at work on a novel and a play But, Beautiful.

Born in Manila and raised in Atlanta, Saudi Arabia and the NYC-tri state region, Sasha Pimentel Chacón is a Filipina American poet and author of Insides She Swallowed, winner of the 2011 American Book Award. Her work has appeared in journals such as The American Poetry Review, Gulf Coast, Colorado Review and Callaloo, and she is the winner of the Ernesto Trejo prize and the Philip Levine fellowship. She is currently an assistant professor of poetics and poetry writing at the University of Texas at El Paso. She lives in El Paso with her husband fiction author Daniel Chacón, on the border of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.
 
Hanalei Ramos is the author of Letters to Martha and Foiled Stars. Her solo performance work, Guns and Tampons: A History of Violence Against Women I Know, was created through the generosity of the Asian Arts Initiative (Philadelphia), and commissioned by the National Asian-American Theater Festival in New York City. Most recently, she has been awarded residencies and opportunities with Project Rowhouses, The Laundromat Project, and the Asian Womens Giving Circle. Hanalei lives and work in Jersey City, NJ. More about her here.


This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership wth the City Council.

For more information, go to Kundiman Reading Series

Sept. 28: Special Encore Performance of Together We Are New York

Join Us to Remember and Re-Vision 9/11

A Polyphonic Performance of Poetry and Audio Clips Followed by a Dialogue

Wednesday, Sept. 28, 7-9 p.m.

Blue Gem Room at Paul Robeson Theater

54 Greene Ave., 1st Floor

Fort Greene, Brooklyn, NY

Featured poets: Hossannah Asuncion, Tamiko Beyer, Marlon Esguerra, April Naoko Heck, Eugenia Leigh, Bushra Rehman, Zohra Saed, Purvi Shah, R.A. Villanueva

For more details and directions, go to Kavad.

Sept. 13: Together We Are New York Performance - Join Us to Remember and Re-Vision 9/11

Together We Are New York: Asian Americans Remember and Re-Vision 9/11
A Public Arts Poetry Project by Kundiman
Opening Performance September 13, 2011 from 7-9 p.m.
McNally Auditorium, Fordham Law School, Lincoln Center Campus
140 West 62nd Street

"The sense of urgency to write often comes from a place of necessity – to discover truth, to challenge the simplification of stories." -- Hossannah Asuncion

The ten-year anniversary of 9/11 will bring an outpouring of emotions and remembrances. Together We Are New York helps to ensure Asian American community voices are presented and shared as a vital part of the fabric of city memory and the nation’s journey forward. Nine Kundiman poets have interviewed 10 Asian Americans on their experiences that day and in the decade since. The material, crafted into poems accompanied by audio and visual clips for a series of public performances and dialogues, uniquely combines historical documentation with artistic production and public engagement.

Featured poets: Hossannah Asuncion, Tamiko Beyer, Marlon Esguerra, April Heck, Eugenia Leigh, Bushra Rehman, Zohra Saed, Purvi Shah, R.A. Villanueva

For more information and directions, go to: http://www.kundiman.org/kavad/