Jai Arun Ravine: Behind the Poetry of แล้ว and then entwine
Behind the Poetry of แล้ว and then entwine by Jai Arun Ravine แล้ว and then entwine is a skin that once peeled from Ravine’s body took the form of language. Inscribed on pieces of rice paper, Thai lesson workbooks and notebook pages, this text hung on the walls of our apartment in Boulder, CO. แล้ว [...]
Ching-In Chen: 52 Condensed Pages of a Collaged Manifesto {Side B}
How will you begin? — Bhanu Kapil The way a snail crawls out of her shell, cross boundaries almost as soon as I drew them. a strong believer in the Chinese saying “a thousand-mile journey begins with a single step,” I spilled out into the world. Could not tell the difference between me and the [...]
Ching-In Chen: 52 Condensed Pages of a Collaged Manifesto {Side A}
* Dear lovelies: You are receiving this invitation because the fabulously and variously talented Barbara Jane Reyes and Oscar Bermeo have asked me to submit a poetics manifesto for Doveglion Press. (For more on what a manifesto entails, go to: http://www.doveglion.com/2010/07/manifesto or check out the amazing manifestos of my writing peers) As I’ve been thinking [...]
Jean Vengua: On Stewardship and Curation
To be a Filipino American writer, whether or not one is aware of the historical and political implications, is to dip into a stream of writing and speeches produced by Filipinos from just before the beginning of the 20th century, through the 1920s and 1930s, up to and through World War II. The authors include, [...]
Reginald Dwayne Betts: A Line From the Nicest MC
“The only psalms I read was on the arms of my niggas” Jay Z I borrow from hip-hop all the time, if not content than approach. I write a rhyme sometimes won’t finish for days,1 as the line goes, which is to say I revise. I rework, re-see, re-think. And right now I’m reconsidering how [...]
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