Maxine Hong Kingston's Blog

• Reclaiming Norooz: Reflections of Rebirth and Survival from the Clutches of War

  February 23, 2009

  • I'd like to announce an evening at La Peña that will feature the Veterans of War Veterans of Peace I've been working with:Reclaiming Norooz, Reflections of Rebirth and Survival from the Clutches of WarMarch 20th, 8:00 pm  at La Peña Cultural Center, 3105 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley. $10-12 tickets. $10 in advance; $12 at the doorReadings by Veterans of War Veterans of Peace on Iraq   (30 ...
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• Obama on O'ahu

  November 3, 2008

  • The week of summer that we were in Hawai'i visiting our son, Barack Obama brought his family to visit his tutu, his grandmother Toot. Crowds welcomed them with munificent aloha. Commentators back on the mainland worried, the presidential candidate had gone off to a foreign, barely American place. Seeing him and his wife and daughters at the beaches and parks and basketball court - he showed them ...
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• Burning a New Path

  December 3, 2007

  • My way of writing is that I always have to be exploring. I'm always going into new territory. To just look back and try to remember what the old words were, it just would not be right. –Me, quoted on Powells.com, December 3rd, 2003
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