Via The Recorder: ‘Memory is deception’ Story by Trish Crapo Wednesday, October 17, 2012 “Memory is deception,” Sol, the young narrator of Gina Apostol’s new novel “Gun Dealers’ Daughter,” muses. “There’s a pall under which intentions lie, gross as an astrologer’s ball.” To figure out how memory works is not just a passing fancy for … Continue reading »
Via Doveglion.com: The Day Manila Fell Silent by Ninotchka Rosca [Talk at the Bliss on Bliss Studio, Queens, New York City; September 9, 2012; third part of Re-Collection, A Commemoration of the Anniversary of the Declaration of Martial Law in the Philippines, the first two being an art exhibit and an installation/performance.] Ironically, the most … Continue reading »
Necessary words from the ever-wise Benjamin Pimentel on the 40th anniversary of the declaration of Martial Law: We joined the fight to get rid of a tyrant. And guess what – we won. And you won. I know it’s hard to believe, especially given all the news of corruption and abuse and of people dying and … Continue reading »
At kcet.org: By Michelle Dizon and Gina Osterloh LA-based artists Michelle Dizon and Gina Osterloh have had concurrent residencies and exhibitions this summer at 18th Street Arts Center and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE). In both spaces the artists were invited to develop work on-site over an extended period of time while making their processes available … Continue reading »
We are sad to report the recent passing of our friend, Jeff Tagami, poet and author of October Light (Kearny Street Workshop, 1987). A poet with a strong sense of place, he was committed to community and history. His poems are filled with loss and sadness, and serve as evidence, not simply of our having been here … Continue reading »
Happy National Poetry Month to you all. This April, Seattle-based writer Bob Flor is blogging at Poets & Writers. Flor writes, “In 2006 I co-founded Pinoy Words Expressed Kultura Arts with a friend—Maria Batayola. Our objective was to introduce the public to Filipino American writers, and we quickly discovered a number of Filipinos producing poetry, literature, and … Continue reading »
“To bring the poem into the world is to bring the world into the poem.” We are pleased to share the inauguration of POETS ON THE GREAT RECESSION athttp://poetsonrecession.blogspot.com . The project features poets presenting the many varied face(t)s of their Great Recession experience, and how such has affected (or not) their poetry. We are looking for … Continue reading »
From the Chronicle of Higher Education: The author of a new scholarly book from Stanford University Press has become the target of criticism from an unusual source: the U.S. Department of State. In recent weeks, Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, a professor of sociology at the University of Southern California, has received media attention for Illicit Flirtations: Labor, … Continue reading »
Belatedly posting this interview with Filipino Canadian playwright, C.E. Gatchalian, author of Crossing and Other Plays (Lethe Press), and whose play, Falling in Time, is currently showing in Vancouver: Vancouver playwright C.E. (Chris) Gatchalian is the author of three books of drama and one of poetry. His most recent undertaking is a collection of three … Continue reading »
