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Barbara Jane Reyes's Blog
November 12, 2009
- PAWA (Philippine American Writers and Artists) & Achiote Press Presents: Community & Academic Writing Programs: A Panel for Emerging Writers When: 12/06/2009, 2 pm Where: San Francisco Public Library, Latino Room B (lower level), 100 Larkin at Grove Free and Open to the public, refreshments will be provided The California Bay Area houses a diverse array of writing programs, both ...
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July 2, 2009
- [Please distribute widely via your social networking tool of choice!.]The Filipino American Center of the San Francisco Public Library in association with Philippine American Writers and Artists, Inc. presents:Philippine American Writers and Artists, Inc. Literary Reading withRandall Mann, Kristin Naca, and Debbie YeeSaturday July 11, 20092:00 -4:30 pmLatino Hispanic Community Meeting Room B ...
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May 7, 2009
- San Francisco poet Al Robles passed away last week. He was loved by many, for his Zen vibe, his talk story, poetry, and his community and political activism. The author of Rappin With Ten Thousand Carabaos in the Dark (UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press, 1996), he documented the lives and voices of the Manongs, the West Coast Filipino laborers of the early 1900's who experienced ...
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March 10, 2009
- http://eslibrary.berkeley.edu/announce/FieldOfMirrors.pdf In Celebration of the Ethnic Studies Department’s 40th Anniversary: The Ethnic Studies Library presents a Book Talk & Signing FIELD OF MIRRORS Featuring the following authors: Tony Robles Rick Barot Barbara Jane Reyes Benjamin Pimentel Janet Stickmon Oscar Peñaranda Evangeline Canonizado Buell Anthem Salgado Edwin A. Lozada ...
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February 18, 2009
- http://bjanepr.wordpress.com/2009/02/18/da-schedule-and-some-questions/ Upcoming: 03/05/09 at UC Berkeley: Art as a Form of Resistance in API Communities. This is going to be interesting, as the class is a student initiated class, what we call the De-Cal Class. I will be speaking on issues of gender and how I communicate my gender concerns in poetry. These are the poems they will have read: From ...
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October 23, 2008
- XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics celebrates its twentieth issue with the publication of a 180+ page anthology of contemporary writers addressing the theme upon which the journal was founded more than a decade ago. Below are just a few of the essays that appear in this anniversary issue: Kazim Ali, “The Poetics of Islam”Amiri Baraka, “Black Power in Newark”Jeff Derksen, “The Idea of ...
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May 2, 2008
- Released in April 2008. First there is Easter Sunday, published by Carrie Huner of Ypolita Press. These are the sweet poems. Released in May 2008. Second, there is Cherry, published by Brenda Iijima of Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs. These are the porn-y and mean poems. It's looking like all of my publishers are independent, basically one-woman shows, and this is quite dope.
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April 3, 2008
- UC Santa Cruz POETRY SERIES Humanities Lecture Hall 7:30 PM April 9 Al Robles Tony Robles Jaime Jacinto April 16 Shirley Ancheta Jeff Tagami Barbara Jane Reyes The Critical Filipina/o Studies Research Cluster of the UCSC Center for Cultural Studies wishes to extend a special thanks to the Living Writers Series of the UCSC Creative Writing Program and the Asian American/ Pacific Islander ...
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January 24, 2008
- [Addendum: Some of the impetus for these thoughts on local grassroots literary movement -- my recent reading of Arlene Biala's Continental Drift, and my current reading of Juan Felipe Herrera's 187 Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross the Border: Undocuments 1971 - 2007, where in his intro, he pays tribute/makes mention of the fervor of the Chicano/Xicano/Latino grassroots community movements which ...
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January 15, 2008
- I love an incisive introduction, particularly one which gets to the critical heart of the work without "giving away" everything (as well, I love that she links my blogging to my poetic body politic projects). That said, below is from Brenda Iijima, who, with Evelyn Reilly, co-curated the Fall/Winter 2007 Segue Series at the Bowery Poetry Club. This reading is one I’ve greatly anticipated. ...
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