I’ve got a few poems up in the March issue of Concelebratory Shoehorn Review, edited by Maurice Oliver. They were originally written as postcard poems in correspondence with Del Ray Cross back in July 2003. I’ve been publishing a number of these poems in various places the past few months, and there’s a weird nostalgia around them for me: I’m…
Author: Timothy Yu
Seven Corners
I’m the featured poet this week in the Chicago-based blog journal Seven Corners, edited by Steve Halle. (Warning: the photo of me looking relaxed and summery can be blown up to an alarmingly large size.)
Journey to the West in Barrow Street
The new Winter 2006 issue of Barrow Street is out, and nestled snugly in its center is Journey to the West, a 15-page selection of my poems that won the 2006 Vincent Chin Memorial Chapbook Prize. Thanks to the folks at Kundiman, which sponsors the prize (and which is also sending me to their summer retreat at the University of…
2nd Ave., Vol. 2
* Volume 2 features work by ANSELM BERRIGAN michael coffey ERNEST CONCEPCION kevin coval DEL RAY CROSS thomas fink ROB FITTERMAN drew gardner RIGOBERTO GONZALES donna ho FANNY HOWE brenda iijima PAOLO JAVIER jack kimball SERENA LIU paolo manalo NOAM MOR joyelle mcsweeney BRUNA MORI daniel nester MANUEL OCAMPO tim peterson WANDA PHIPPS sreshta premnath MEREDITH QUARTERMAIN peter quartermain BARBARA…
A New Prairie School?
At this past weekend’s M/MLA convention in Chicago, Bill Allegrezza assembled a panel on “Experimental Poetics in Contemporary Chicago,” with Bob Archambeau, Garin Cycholl, Ray Bianchi, and myself. Since Bob has been kind enough to post his paper at his blog, I thought I’d follow suit. I think it’s fitting that two of the four papers on this panel have…
Urban Poetry at IUN
Next month’s groundbreaking conference Drawing the Lines: International Perspectives on Urban Renewal Through the Arts at Indiana University Northwest will feature an urban poetry panel on Thursday, Nov. 2 from 12:15 p.m. until 1:30 pm in the IU Northwest Savannah Center Auditorium. Four published poets will recite their works during this presentation and will also discuss what it means to…
Paolo Javier and Tim Yu at Myopic Books
Myopic Poetry Series presents PAOLO JAVIER and TIM YU Sunday, September 10, 7 p.m.Myopic Books1564 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago PAOLO JAVIER is the author of 60 lv bo(e)mbs (O Books), and thetime at the end of this writing (Ahadada), which received a Small PressTraffic Book of the Year Award. He edits 2nd Ave Poetry, and lives in New York. TIM…
Hyde Park Poetry!
series A, a new reading series, is hosting its first reading on Thursday, July 20, at the new Hyde Park Art Center at 6:00 p.m. The featured readers will be Kerri Sonnenberg and Chris Glomski. I invite everyone to come out and celebrate the launch of a new series in Chicago and to celebrate the writing of these wonderful poets.…
Those Glittering Asian Guys (II)
An unexpected trip to Boston, plus a cold I picked up there, pretty well knocked me out for the past week and a half. Meanwhile this discussion has gone a few more rounds and should perhaps be left alone. But it’s surprisingly persistent. In my last post I tried to outline two modes of using Asian stereotypes in contemporary poetry–the…
Those Glittering Asian Guys
Hoo boy. So I was in San Francisco last weekend (more on which soon) and heard some murmuring about a Michael Magee poem that had caused a stir at a recent reading by talking about “Asians.” That poem, of course, was “Their Guys, Their Asian Glittering Guys, Are Gay”, and after some pointers from Barbara Jane Reyes and Brent Cunningham…