Kundiman Poetry Prize Events
2014 Events
Friday, April 18th, 5:00p.m.
Alice James Presents Cathy Linh Che, Sally Wen Mao, and Jamaal May
Readings by Cathy Linh Che (“Split,” 2014), Sally Wen Mao (“Mad Honey Symposium,” 2014), and Jamaal May (“Hum,” 2013). This event is hosted by executive director Carey Salerno and is co-sponsored with Alice James Books, Cave Canem Foundation, and Kundiman.
Location: Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, 58 West 10th Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues
Additional Readings
April 15, 2014, 7pm
Academy of American Poets American Poets Spring Launch Party
Berl’s Poetry Shop
126A Front Street
Brooklyn, NY
April 19, 2014, 6:30pm
Salon with Jenna Le at Private Address
Email cathylinhche@gmail.com for info
Astoria, Queens
April 25, 2014
cream city review Reading
University of Milwaukee, WI Union Art Gallery
Milwaukee, WI
April 30, 2014, 7pm
w/ Brett Fletcher Lauer, Benjamin Miller, & Maudelle Driskell
Fourway Books & Friends
NYU Bookstore
726 Broadway
New York, NY 10003
May 3, 2014
w/ Desiree Alvarez, Corina Copp, Sarah Dohrmann, Kaitlyn Greenidge, John Haskell, Jonathan Padua, & Jen Silverman
LMCC Workspace
1 Liberty Plaza
New York, NY
May 14th, 2014, 7pm
Rekover
77 Franklin Street
Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY 11222
May 22, 2014, 7pm
w/ Amber Atiya, Wo Chan, Paul Tran & Javier Zamora
Bluestockings Bookstore
172 Allen St
New York, NY 10002
May 30, 2014, 7pm
w/ Sally Wen Mao & R.A. Villanueva
Asian American Writers’ Workshop
112 W. 27th Street, Suite #600
New York, NY 10001
June 3, 2014, 7pm
w/ Major Jackson & Patrick Rosal
(Not open to the public)
Writers in New York
NYU Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House
58 West 10th Street
New York, NY 10001
June 6, 2014, 7pm
BOOK PARTY with April Naoko Heck
NYU Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House
58 West 10th Street
New York, NY 10001
July 14-26, 2014
Honeybadgers Don’t Give a B**k Tour
w/ Michelle Chan Brown, Eugenia Leigh & Sally Wen Mao
July 14, 2014
Book Tour Launch Party
w/Michelle Chan Brown, Eugenia Leigh, & Sally Wen Mao
Bar 13
35 East 13th Street
New York, NY
July 22, 2014
w/ Michelle Chan Brown, Eugenia Leigh, Sally Wen Mao & Patrick Rosal
Word for Word Reading Series
Bryant Park Reading Room
New York, NY
July 28, 2014, 7pm
VIDA Reading
New York Poetry Festival
Governor’s Island, NYC
September 15, 2014, 6pm
Soul Sister Revue
Cornelia Street Cafe
29 Cornelia Street
New York, NY 10014
February 5, 2015
Northwest Academy
1130 SW Main Street
Portland, OR 97205
February 5, 2015, 7pm
Literary Arts
925 SW Washington Street
Portland, OR 97205
2013 Events
Reading for Mezzanines
Matthew Olzmann, winner of the 2011 Kundiman Poetry Prize reads at New York University.
Friday, May 10th, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, 58 West 10th Street, b/w 5th and 6th Ave., New York City
Reading and Conversation: Poetry Fellows Eduardo C. Corral, Matthew Olzmann and Nicole Terez Dutton.
Co-sponsored with the Creative Writing Program at NYU, CantoMundo, Kundiman, and Cave Canem Foundation.
Matthew Olzmann is a graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Kenyon Review, New England Review, Inch, Gulf Coast, Rattle and elsewhere. He’s received fellowships from Kundiman and the Kresge Arts Foundation. Currently, he is a writer-in-residence for the InsideOut Litereary Arts Project and the poetry editor of The Collagist. He is the winner of the Kundiman Poetry Prize, which was founded in 2010 and is an annual book publication prize open to emerging and established poets of Asian American descent. The Prize is a partnership between Kundiman and Alice James Books.
2011 Events
Book Launch for Pier
Janine Oshiro, winner of the 2010 Kundiman Poetry Prize reads in New York City.
November 9, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Fordham University, Lincoln Center, South Lounge, 113 West 60th St.
[Directions: Take A, B, C, D or 1 train to Columbus Circle. Exit at 60th St. & Broadway. Go west of Columbus Ave. Upon entering the glass doors, inform security that you are attending the English Dept. event. Take the escalators up 1 floor to Plaza level and head to the back of the Student Cafeteria.]
Kundiman thanks the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Dean Busch, and the English Department at Fordham University for their partnership and support for this program.
November 11, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, 58 West 10th Street, b/w 5th and 6th Ave., New York City
New Asian American Writers Reading: Jessica Hagedorn, Janine Oshiro and Samuel Park.
Co-sponsored with Kundiman, Creative Writing Program at NYU, and the Asian American Writers' Workshop.
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership wth the City Council.
Janine Oshiro holds degrees from Whitworth College (now Whitworth University), Portland State University, and the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She is a Kundiman fellow and the recipient of a poetry fellowship from Oregon’s Literary Arts. She lives in Hawaii and teaches at Windward Community College. She is the winner of the inaugural Kundiman Poetry Prize, which was founded in 2010 and is an annual book publication prize open to emerging and established poets of Asian American descent. The Prize is a partnership between Kundiman and Alice James Books.