Okay, I’m just seeing how long I can keep this title thing going. But there’s hasn’t been much discussion about the fact that Lan Samantha Chang has been named the new director of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. That’s kind of cool. I guess it just goes to show that if you become a famous Asian American novelist, you will be…
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Freaked-Out Asian American Writers at Indiana
Strange experience of scrolling through Ron Silliman’s blog and suddenly seeing a Chinese face starting out at me from the screen: the uncanniness of this must say something about how rare it is. Anyway, it turns out it’s a link to an account of a minor Li-Young Lee freakout during a reading in Indiana; the subsequent discussion expresses admiration for…
Experimental Asian American Writers at Northwestern
This weekend’s Asian American Studies conference at Northwestern University (located, as the university’s website likes to say, in “Evanston/Chicago, IL”), which marks the 10th anniversary of the hunger strike that established Northwestern’s Asian American Studies program, will feature a pretty cool reading: poets Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Tan Lin, and Brian Kim Stefans, and novelist Max Yeh. It’s Saturday, April 16, 3:45-5:15…
My Vocabulary
New to the blogroll: My Vocabulary, home of the weekly Matt and James Poetry Show.
Formatting help
I have a poem I want to post that has lines that are indented–i.e. one line will end and I want the next to begin just below the end of the previous line. I don’t see any obvious way to do this through the Blogger interface, and I don’t know enough about HTML to figure out how to do it…
Bellows
Now that Saul Bellow has died, an unseemly battle has broken out between Chicago and New York to claim him. The Chicago Tribune‘s Wednesday cover story declares him “Chicago’s Novelist.” Today the New York Times has a clever riposte: “New York was Saul Bellow’s Second City.”Chicago would seem to have an edge in this one; he grew up in Chicago…
Cassie’s New Blog
can be found here.
Hey Mr. DJ
You can hear me reading “Whatever You Want Is What You Want” tomorrow night on the inaugural edition of Matthew Shindell and James Meetze‘s poetry radio show on KSDT in San Diego. Tune in between 4-6 p.m. (PT) at http://scw.ucsd.edu/. The real reason to listen, though, is that Matthew and James will be starting off with a tribute to Robert…
A list of our own? (II)
As both Pam Lu and Roger Pao have (very gently) reminded me, I’ve sort of dropped the ball on the whole Asian American poetics list thing. Besides general busyness, I can offer two pleas: format anxiety and technical ignorance. There’s been some debate, both here and on Roger’s blog, about whether a listserv is the best way to generate the…
for Robert Creeley (1926-2005)
Conversation Poem (unathorized)Robert Creeley—Chicago, December 29, 1999 Hey, let metell you this: heas the ultimate good person, asthe art of lying, by the throat andthrottle it. The sawyer ofthe mind seated in the rocking chair,so the neighbors might see. Variouslyculminating literature of tacithorror: the willing suspension ofculpability. Taking the XXX Cantosto war: just read this and addwater, for which no…