Sarah Gambito Will Present at the VIDA Cocktail Party and Meet-N-Greet, Friday, November 9, 2012

VIDA Cocktail Party & Meet-N-Greet

Date: Friday, November 9, 2012

Time: 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Location: NYU's Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House

Description::

VIDA welcomes an array of female writers who, respectively, serve as faculty to local MFA programs and administrate non-profit organizations supporting underrepresented writers. Emerging writers interested in joining in critical discourse that addresses the lack of gender parity in publishing are encouraged to join this conversation. What obstacles do female writers presently face? What opportunities are ours to embrace?

VIDA Members & Guests to be present:

·      Cate Marvin (Co-Founder, VIDA)

·      Amy King (The Count, VIDA)

·      Rosebud Ben-Oni (HER KIND, VIDA)

·      Becca Klaver (Events, VIDA)

·      Rebecca Godfrey (Columbia)­

·      Lucie Brock-Broido (Columbia)

·      Deborah Landau (NYU)

·      Helen Schulman (New School)

·      Melissa Febos (Sarah Lawrence)

·      Elizabeth Hornig (Brooklyn)

·      Camille Rankine (Mahattanville)

·      Jan Heller-Levi (Hunter)

·      Sarah Gambito (Kundiman)

·      Alison Meyers and Hafizah Geter (Cave Canem) 

Brief presentations from VIDA’s guests along with a Q & A will be followed by informal conversation and merriment among those who actively desire to create a literary climate more inclusive of work by female writers.

Join us Nov. 11 for our Reading Series at Verlaine with Cathy Park Hong, Muriel Leung, and Natalie J. Park

Kundiman & Verlaine present
a night of poetry & libation with  

Cathy Park Hong, Muriel Leung,
& Natalie Jiwon Park

Sunday, Nov. 11, 2012
Reading begins at 5 pm
Open Bar, 4 - 5 pm
$5 suggested donation

http://www.kundiman.org/reading-series/

Verlaine
110 Rivington Street
b/w Ludlow & Essex Sts.
[ directions: F to Delancey or V to 2nd Ave. ]

http://verlainenyc.com/

This program is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and is also supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in Partnership with the City Council, the Manhattan Borough President's Office, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

RSVP here: http://www.facebook.com/events/449681851734033/?fref=ts

Readers' Bios:

Cathy Park Hong's first book, Translating Mo'um was published in 2002 by Hanging Loose Press. Her second collection, Dance Dance Revolution, was chosen for the Barnard Women Poets Prize and was published in 2007 by WW Norton. Her third book of poems, Engine Empire, was published in May 2012 by WW Norton. Hong is also the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship and a Village Voice Fellowship for Minority Reporters. Her poems have been published in A Public Space, Poetry, Paris Review, Conjunctions,McSweeney's, Harvard Review, Boston Review, The Nation, American Letters & Commentary, Denver Quarterly, and other journals. She is an Assistant Professor at Sarah Lawrence College and is regular faculty at the Queens MFA program in Charlotte, North Carolina. 

Muriel Leung is a poet from and currently residing in Queens, NY. She received her BA from Sarah Lawrence College where she graduated with the Lori Hertzberg Prize for Creativity. Her poems and essay have appeared or are forthcoming in Bone Bouquet, Dark Phrases, and RE/VISIONIST. She is a recent Kundiman fellow. With the support of the Engage, Learn, Lead, Act (ELLA) Fellowship and a commitment to social justice based arts education, she has led Write to Resist, a creative writing and zine making workshop series on race, gender, and violence for high school aged Asian American young women. Currently, she is an arts administrator with Elders Share the Arts and a teaching artist with Community-Word Project.

NatalieJiwonPark's most recent chapbook was entitled Dream Farm, which explored the mythical nature of family narratives. She is the author of two other collections, and the proud recipient of the Stanley and Evelyn Lipkin poetry prize. Originally from Woodside, Queens, Natalie also grew up in Albany, NY. She attended Sarah Lawrence College where her poems were given a warm place to grow. A lifelong writer, she also aspires to become a psychiatric nurse practitioner someday. 

MISSION STATEMENT

Kundiman is dedicated to the creation, cultivation and promotion of Asian American poetry.

On Friday, Oct. 19th, in celebration of Bengali Poet Subodh Sarkar, Kundiman alums Sonia Mukherji and R.A. Villanueva will read with Yusef Komunyakaa at Poets House

Rattapallax and Kundiman present

I HAD THOUGHT MYSELF A KANGAROO:

A Reading by Bengali Poet Subodh Sarkar

In a rare New York appearance, noted Bengali poet Subodh Sarkar reads from his work in Bengali and English translation and discusses the contemporary Bengali literary scene.  With poets Sonia Mukherji and R.A. Villanueva and special guest Yusef Komunyakaa.

Subodh Sarkar is a major Bengali poet with 22 books of poems and one travelogue on America . Critics find his poetry as ‘incisive, provocative, satiric, and most of all, entertainingly contemporary’.  His poems have been translated into English, French and several Indian languages and published in several journals and anthologies. Sarkar edits Bhashanagar, a Bengali culture magazine with occasional English issues. In 2010 he was appointed as the guest editor of Indian Literature, the flagship journal of Sahitya Akademi.  Sarkar also has participated in a number of international poetry festivals including events in Taiwan, Germany,  and France and was a fellow at the International Writers Program at the University of Iowa.  He recently visited Russia and Turkey as a member of the Indian Writers’ delegation organized by Sahitya Akademi.  He teaches English at City College, Kolkata.

Date and Time: October 19, 2012 - 7:00PM

Event Location: Poets House
10 River Terrace  
New York, NY 10282

Admission free.  Reception to follow.

Joseph O. Legaspi will read at Poets House for Page Meets Stage on Oct. 17th

This pairing will take place at the beautiful Poets House in Battery Park City (10 River Terrace) in downtown New York City.

 

The series continues on the third Wednesday of October with . . .

Joseph O. Legaspi is the author of Imago (CavanKerry Press), winner of a Global Filipino Literary Award. He lives in Queens, NY and works at Columbia University. A graduate of New York University’s Creative Writing Program, his poems appeared and/or are forthcoming in American Life in Poetry, From the Fishouse, jubilat, World Literature Today, PEN International, Smartish Pace, The Spoon River Poetry Review, Gay & Lesbian Review, The Normal School, and the anthologies Language for a New Century (W.W. Norton), Collective Brightness (Sibling Rivalry Press) and Tilting the Continent (New Rivers Press). A recipient of a poetry fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts, he co-founded Kundiman (www.kundiman.org), a non-profit organization serving Asian American poetry.

Born in Trinidad and raised in New York City, Cheryl Boyce-Taylor is the author of  three collections of poetry, Raw Air, Night When Moon Follows, and Convincing the Body. Her work has been published in various anthologies including: Callaloo, Carry the Word, The Mom Egg, To Be Left With The Body, So Much Things To Say:100 Calabash Poets and Making the Trees Shiver. A poet, and teaching artist, she holds an MFA in Poetry from Stonecoast: The University of Southern Maine, and an MSW in Social Work from Fordham University. Boyce-Taylor’s text WATER has been commissioned by Jacob’s Pillow, and The Joyce Theater for Ronald K. Brown /Evidence Dance Company. She currently hosts two monthly reading series in New York City, The Calypso Muse Reading Series and The Glitter Pomegrate Performance Series, she is working on a memoir and a new manuscript of poetry titled, The Red Bible: Poems of Loss and Remembrances after her mother Eugenia Boyce.

Page Meets Stage was born in 2005 when Billy Collins and Taylor Mali read together on the same stage in an event called “Page vs. Stage: The Final Smackdown!” Now it is a monthly series curated by Taylor which brings together two poets—one ostensibly repping the “page,” the other ostensibly repping a more performative style—to read/perform back and forth, poem for poem, continuing the conversation of where poetry exists. Some of the most prominent poets in the United States both in the “academy” and in spoken word circles (Gerald Stern, Mark Doty, Carol Muske-Dukes, Valzhyna Mort, Paul Muldoon, Thomas Lux, Roger Bonair-Agard, Patricia Smith, Rives, Lynne Procope, to name just a few) have been involved.

All Page Meets Stage events are co-productions of Words Worth Ink and Blue Flower Arts. Check out YouTube to see some of the more memorable moments in the series (search for “Page Meets Stage”), or go to www.PageMeetsStage.com for the complete schedule.

Tickets are $12 ($6 students) and are available ONLY at the door on the night of the show. Call 917-743-6911 for more information.

Come join us Oct. 10 for our first ever Kundiman & CantoMundo Fellows Reading at Fordham

Please join us for a reading featuring fellows from CantoMundo and Kundiman. The reading will take place in the the South Lounge at Fordham Lincoln Center on 60th and Amsterdam Avenue, New York City. 7pm to 9pm Tarfia Faizullah Deborah Paredez Ocean Vuong Javier Zamora Eugenia Leigh Anthony Cody Hosted by R.A. Villanueva and Eduardo C. Corral

Tarfia Faizullah is the author of Seam (Southern Illinois University Press, 2014), winner of the 2012 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award. Her poems and prose appear in Ploughshares, The Missouri Review, Poetry Daily, and elsewhere. A Kundiman fellow, she received her MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University, and is the recipient of an AWP Intro Journals Project Award, a Fulbright Fellowship, scholarships from Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Kenyon Review Writers’ Workshop, and other honors.

Deborah Paredez is the author of the poetry collection, This Side of Skin (Wings Press) and the critical study, Selenidad: Selena, Latinos, and the Performance of Memory.  Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Callaloo, Crab Orchard Review, Mandorla, Poet Lore and elsewhere. Her honors include an Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Foundation Award and residencies from the Vermont Studio Center and Hedgebrook. She is the co-founder of CantoMundo, a national organization for Latina/o poets, and an Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas in Austin where she teaches in the New Writers School MFA Program.

Born in 1988 in Saigon, Vietnam, Ocean Vuong was raised by women (a single mother, aunts, and a grandmother) in housing projects throughout Hartford, Connecticut. He received his B.A. in English Literature at Brooklyn College, CUNY. His first chapbook Burnings was released by Sibling Rivalry Press, 2010. A Kundiman fellow, other honors include a 2012 Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize for Younger Poets, an Academy of American Poets prize, the Connecticut Poetry Society’s Al Savard Award, as well as four Pushcart Prize nominations. Poems appear in the American Poetry Review, Guernica, and Drunken Boat, amongst others.

Javier Zamora was born in La Herradura, La Paz, El Salvador. At the age of nine he immigrated to the Yunaited Estais. His chapbook, Nine Immigrant Years, is the winner of the 2011 Organic Weapon Arts Chapbook Contest. Zamora is a CantoMundo fellow and a Breadloaf work-study scholarship recipient. He has received scholarships from Frost Place, Napa Valley, Squaw Valley, and VONA. His poems appear or are forthcoming in DirtyLaundry, NewBorder, Phat’titude, The Homestead Review, The Poetry Show, Spillway Magazine, among other journals. He attends NYU’s MFA program.

Eugenia Leigh is the author of a forthcoming collection of poetry, Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows (Four Way Books, 2014), which was a finalist for both the National Poetry Series and the Yale Series of Younger Poets. A Korean American poet and Kundiman fellow, she holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, and has taught writing workshops for high school students and incarcerated youth. Her poems have appeared in several publications including North American Review, The Collagist, Rattle and the Best New Poets anthology.

Anthony Cody was born in Fresno, California to children of borne from immigrants of the Dust Bowl and Bracero Program. A graduate of CSU-Fresno, Anthony has been writing poetry since he read his first poem in Spanish. Anthony writes to capture the complexities of each moment and hopes that through writing, he, as well as others, can further understand humanity and have an opportunity to reflect upon the personal struggles within life. His work has been previously published in 187 Reasons Mexicanos Can’t Cross The Border: Undocuments 1971-2007.

This event was funded in part by Poets & Writers, Inc. with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

Join us Sept. 9 for our Reading Series at Verlaine!

Kundiman & Verlaine present
a night of poetry & libation with  

Sara Goudarzi, Sahar Muradi,
& Richard Jeffrey Newman

Sunday, Sept. 9
Reading begins at 5 pm
Open Bar, 4 - 5 pm
$5 suggested donation

http://www.kundiman.org/reading-series/

Verlaine
110 Rivington Street
b/w Ludlow & Essex Sts.
[ directions: F to Delancey or V to 2nd Ave. ]
http://verlainenyc.com/

This program is made possible, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in Partnership with the City Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Readers' Bios

Sara Goudarzi is a New York City writer and performer of poetry. She was born in Tehran and grew up in Iran, Kenya, and the U.S. Her work has appeared in The Adirondack Review, National Geographic News, The Christian Science Monitor, and Drunken Boat, among others. She is the founder and co-editor of /One/ The Journal of Literature, Art and Ideas. Sara teaches writing at NYU and is working on a first novel. www.saragoudarzi.com.

Sahar Muradi is a NY-based writer and performer originally from Kabul, Afghanistan. She is co-editor of One Story, Thirty Stories: An Anthology of Contemporary Afghan American Literature (University of Arkansas Press, 2010) and co-founder of the Afghan American Artists & Writers Association.  She was a 2010-2011 Open City Organizing Fellow with the Asian American Writers’ Workshop. Sahar’s writing has been featured on public radio and published in dOCUMENTA, phati’tude, Green Mountains Review, and HOW2 Journal. Her recent theater credits include performing in a devised production of “Masque of the Red Death” (HiveMind Theatre) and in a tour of “Undocumented” (Unboxed Voices), as well as helping to establish an all-women’s theater group in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. Sahar has an MPA in international development from New York University and a BA in literature and creative writing from Hampshire College.

Richard Jeffrey Newman is the author of The Silence Of Men (CavanKerry Press, 2006), a book of poetry, and three books of translations from classical Persian literature: Selections from Saadi’s Gulistan, Selections from Saadi’s Bustan (Global Scholarly Press 2004 and 2006) and, most recently, The Teller of Tales: Stories from Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh. He is Professor of English at Nassau Community College in Garden City, New York. His website is www.richardjnewman.com.

MISSION STATEMENT
Kundiman is dedicated to the creation, cultivation and promotion of Asian American poetry.

July 22: Kundiman and Cave Canem at the New York City Poetry Festival

2:30 pm
Governors Island
Colonel's Row
New York, NY

Cave Canem & Kundiman at the New York City Poetry Festival
Cave Canem fellows Wendy S. Walters & Brian Francis, co-founder Cornelius Eady, & Kundiman fellows Angela Veronica Wong & Ocean Vuong showcase selected work. For festival details, click here.

Join us May 6 for readings from the PSA Chapbook prizewinners!

Join us to celebrate! Please join us Sunday, May 6 for the next installment of the Kundiman & Verlaine reading series as we celebrate our Kundiman fellows who have won the PSA Chapbook Prize! Hear their amazing poems and purchase their beautiful chapbooks! Feel free to spread the word and bring your friends & loved ones. We look forward to seeing your lovely faces! Kundiman & Verlaine present a night of poetry & libation with   Hossannah Asuncion, Alison Roh Park, & Angela Veronica Wong   Sunday, May 6 Reading begins at 5 pm Open Bar from 4 - 5 pm $5 suggested donation Verlaine 110 Rivington Street b/w Ludlow & Essex Sts. [ directions: F to Delancey or V to 2nd Ave. ] http://verlainenyc.com/ http://www.kundiman.org/reading-series/ Readers' Bios Hossannah Asuncion grew up near the 710 freeway in Los Angeles and currently lives near an F/G stop in Brooklyn. Her work has been published by The Poetry Society of America, Tuesday; An Art Project, The Collagist, and other fine places.   Alison Roh Park is a Kundiman fellow, Pushcart-nominated writer, and winner of the 2011 Poetry Society of America New York Chapbook Fellowship. Her work has appeared in several publications, including Mythium Literary Magazine and The NuyorAsian Anthology. She holds a Masters of Fine Arts in creative writing, and resides in her native Queens, New York with Kush.   Angela Veronica Wong is the author of the full-length poetry collection how to survive a hotel fire available on Coconut Books. She lives in Manhattan and on the internet at www.angelaveronicawong.com
	MISSION STATEMENT Kundiman is dedicated to the creation, cultivation and promotion of Asian American poetry.
	This event was funded in part by Poets & Writers, Inc. through public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. This program is also made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in Partnership with the City Council as well as the Manhattan Borough President's Office and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Join us March 24 in DC for Split This Rock: Advancing Justice

Advancing Justice with the Poetry of Witness and Community Engagement: Kundiman’s Together We Are New York in Re-Envisioning 9/11

Featuring: April Naoko Heck, Eugenia Leigh, Zohra Saed, and Purvi Shah

Saturday, March 24

11:30 am - 1 pm

True Reformer, Board Room

1200 U Street NW, Washington, DC

publicwelfare.org

For communities facing the aftermath of 9/11, poetry of witness is vital. In this roundtable, Kundiman poets examine how poetry rooted in Asian American community oral history can further social justice as well as community healing and transformation. The poets will share their work interviewing community members and producing poetry as part of Kundiman’s innovative 9/11 public arts project,Together We Are New York. This roundtable not only provides voices from poets within marginalized communities–Asian American, South Asian, and Muslim–but also demonstrates how poetry can be relevant to community members who may not even read poetry. This session provides a valuable lens for making poetry relevant through investigating how writing can engage history, community needs, and social justice.

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