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Kundiman (nonprofit Organization)
Kundiman is a nonprofit organization dedicated to nurturing generations of writers and readers of Asian American literature. The organization offers an annual writing retreat, readings, workshops, a mentorship program, and a poetry prize, and aims to provide "a safe yet rigorous space where Asian American poets can explore, through art, the unique challenges that face the new and ever changing diaspora." Kundiman was co-founded in 2004 by Asian American poets Sarah Gambito and Joseph O. Legaspi, and has received support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the Poetry Foundation, the New York Community Trust, Philippine American Writers, PAWA, and individuals. Kundiman and Fordham University have formed an affiliation in which Kundiman will "enhance the outreach of Fordham’s English Department," and Fordham hosts the annual Kundiman Poetry Retreat on Fordham's Rose Hill campus beginning in 2010, and host Kundiman-sponsore ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bonnie Chau
Bonnie Chau is an American author of short stories. Her debut collection of short stories, ''All Roads Lead to Blood'', received the 2040 Books Prize. Life and career Chau was born and raised in Orange County, California. She credits the Southern California environment as one of the main catalysts for her development "as a writer, as a person, as a body". She attended college at UCLA, where she studied art history and English literature. She also wrote an opinion column for UCLA's student newspaper, The Daily Bruin. Chau then received an MFA in fiction and literary translation from Columbia University. Chau's collection of short stories, ''All Roads Lead to Blood,'' was published in 2018 to critical acclaim. ''All Roads Lead to Blood'' has been described as "honest and arresting," with The Community of Literary Magazines and Presses saying that "Chau’s bold portrayals of second-generation Chinese-American women, their trials and desires, memories and identities, make this co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kundiman
Kundiman is a genre of traditional Filipino love songs. The lyrics of the kundiman are written in Tagalog. The melody is characterized by a smooth, flowing and gentle rhythm with dramatic intervals. Kundiman was the traditional means of serenade in the Philippines. The kundiman emerged as an art song at the end of the 19th century and by the early 20th century, its musical structure was formalised by Filipino composers such as Francisco Santiago and Nicanor Abelardo; they sought poetry for their lyrics, blending verse and music in equal parts. Structure The formalized art song structure of the kundiman is characterized by moderate 3/4 time, with the piece beginning in a minor key and ending in the parallel major. Origins and history Dr. Francisco Santiago (1889–1947), the "Father of the Kundiman Art Song", briefly explains in his scholarly work ''The Development of Music in the Philippines'' that the reason this Tagalog song is called kundiman is because the first sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Aitken
Neil Aitken (born 1974 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian poet, editor, and translator. He founded ''Boxcar Poetry Review.'' His first book, ''The Lost Country of Sight'', won the 2007 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry. Biography Early life and education Aitken was born in Vancouver in 1974 and was raised in Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, Canada, and the United States. His father was of Scottish and English descent and his mother was of Chinese descent. He had a younger sister. He attended elementary and secondary school in Regina. Throughout high school, he enjoyed painting. As an undergraduate, he studied Computer Engineering with a minor in Mathematics. He worked as a computer games programmer for several years. In 2004, he quit his position to study at the University of California, Riverside, where he earned an MFA. He earned a PhD in Literature & Creative Writing from the University of Southern California. Literature career Aitken's first book, ''The Lost Country of Si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muriel Leung
Muriel Leung is an American writer. Her work includes the poetry collection ''Bone Confetti'', which won the 2015 Noemi Press Book Award and ''Imagine Us, The Swarm,'' which received the Nightboat’s Poetry Prize. She has received multiple writing fellowships, and her work was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Early life Leung grew up in Richmond Hills, New York. Her first language is Cantonese. She learned English in elementary school. On her mother's side, she has family members who were garment workers on Manhattan's Lower East Side. Her father emigrated to the United States from Hong Kong under refugee status, and went on to own a restaurant. She received her undergraduate degree from Sarah Lawrence College. Career While working on her MFA at Louisiana State University, Leung completed her poetry collection ''Bone Confetti'', which won the 2015 Noemi Press Book Award. Noemi Press published ''Bone Confetti'' the following year. The collection, which is divided into four se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swati Khurana
Swati Khurana is a writer and contemporary artist of Indian-American origin. She was born in New Delhi, India in 1975. She emigrated to New York in 1977, where she lives and works. She graduated from Poughkeepsie Day School in 1993. She holds a B.A. in history from Columbia University, M.A. in Studio Art and Art Criticism from New York University, and an MFA in creative writing at Hunter College. Writing Her fiction and essays have been published in ''The New York Times'', ''Guernica'', ''Chicago Quarterly Review'', '' Asian American Literary Review'', ''The Offing'', ''The Rumpus'', ''The Massachusetts Review'', the ''Good Girls Marry Doctors'' anthology, and cited as a Notable Essay in '' Best American Essays 2019''. She has received support from New York Foundation for the Arts, Vermont Studio Center, and Center for Fiction for her creative writing. Visual Art Khurana works in embroidery, collage, drawing, and installation, exploring gender and rituals that are particular to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Kay (poet)
Sarah Kay (born June 19, 1988) is an American poet. Known for her spoken word poetry, Kay is the founder and co-director of Project V.O.I.C.E. (founded 2004), a group dedicated to using spoken word as an educational and inspirational tool. Life Kay was born in New York City, New York, to a Japanese American mother and a Jewish American father. Sarah Kay has one brother, Philip Kay, who is seven years younger. Sarah's dad worked during the day, so her mom was the one at home that she had to talk to. She has a Master of Arts in teaching from Brown University, and an honorary doctorate in humane letters from Grinnell College. She now currently writes, reads, and performs poetry for diverse audiences. She is also the co-director and founder of her current project, project VOICE. She began performing poetry at the Bowery Poetry Club in the East Village at the age of 14, joining their Slam Team in 2006. That year, she was the youngest person competing in the National Poetry Slam in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janine Joseph
Janine Joseph is a Filipino-American poet and author. Early life and influences Janine Joseph was born in the Philippines. Her father, at the time, worked for President Corazon Aquino. He held a strong belief that if they stayed then their children would never learn the values of hard work and would inherit the social and economic status that their family had in the Philippines. In 1991, Joseph and her family immigrated to California on tourist visas, where the family had previously visited multiple times before. First settling in Riverside, California, then in Arizona. She spent many years not knowing that she was undocumented, until colleges began to refuse her financial aid because of her status. Nonetheless, it was events like this that influenced her to write poetry. While she was attending a writer's retreat in 2003, while also being enrolled in Riverside Community College, she met laureate Natasha Trethewey, who would later become a future poet. After completing her educ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tarfia Faizullah
Tarfia Faizullah is a Bangladeshi American poet. Born in 1980, she was raised in West Texas. She traveled to Bangladesh in 2010 to interview survivors of rape by Pakistani soldiers during the 1971 Liberation War, the birangona. ''Seam'' (SIU, 2014), her first book, was a collection of poems that were inspired by the many interviews she had with the birangona; and won the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition Awards Her writing has also appeared widely in media across the US and abroad and has appeared in many journalistic media such as BuzzFeed. In 2016, Harvard Law School included Faizullah in their list of 50 Women Inspiring Change Life Tarfia Faizullah is a Bengali American poet. Born in 1980 in Brooklyn, New York City; she was raised in Midland, Texas. She earned an MFA from the Virginia Commonwealth University program in creative writing. In 2006, after attending a poetry panel at the University of Texas at Austin which featured the Bengali author Mahmud Rahman. He h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franny Choi
Franny Choi (born February 11, 1989) is an American writer, poet and playwright. Personal life Choi lived in Northampton, Massachusetts and now resides in Greenfield, Massachusetts. Her fascination with poetry began when she was in the third or fourth grade. She enjoyed the action of ordering words together in such a way that they provided profound meaning. As her love for poetry grew, she began to identify and to use poetry as a means of coping with real life experiences. In high school, Choi was introduced to poet Allen Ginsberg and fell in love with poetry's spoken form. In college, she joined a group for marginalized spoken poets, called WORD!, which was her introduction to the world of slam poetry. She has published poetry focusing on social activism and equality, which has won awards and been highlighted in many journals and magazines. She has competed in many slam poetry competitions, where she became increasingly known as a poet. Education and career Choi's parents are Cho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ching-In Chen
Ching-In Chen is a genderqueer Chinese American poet and multi-genre writer. They graduated from Tufts University, University of California, Riverside, and the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. They are the author of ''recombinant'', ''The Heart's Traffic'', and ''to make black paper sing.'' Chen is also the co-editor of the anthologies ''The'' ''Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist'' ''Communities'' and ''Here Is a Pen: An Anthology of West Coast Kundiman Poets.'' They are a Callaloo, Kundiman, and Lambda Fellow. Chen has taught in Sam Houston State University's English department, and currently teaches in the English and creative writing programs at the University of Washington Bothell. They presently serve as the staff advisor for ''Clamor'', the Bothell campus's literary magazine, alongside Amaranth Borsuk. Career Chen's first book, ''The Heart's Traffic'' (2009)'','' is a "novel-in-poems" that employs multiple poetic forms, including th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cathy Linh Che
Cathy Linh Che is a Vietnamese American poet from Los Angeles. She won the Kundiman Poetry prize, the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America, and the Best Poetry Book Award from the Association for Asian American Studies for her book ''Split''. Life Cathy Linh Che attended Reed College and New York University where she received her Bachelor of Arts and Master of Fine Arts degrees. In an interview done by Emerson College, Che states, "I was raised in Highland Park in a working class Asian and Latinx immigrant community. So, while there were plenty of clashes between my parents and me, it was something that everyone around me experienced so I never felt different or alone until going away to college." In 2018, she helped organize the Kundiman "Because We Come From Everything" project. She participated in the digital project the "Poetics of Haunting," curated by Jane Wong. Writing career When asked in an interview at Emerson College of what brought ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
K-Ming Chang
K-Ming Chang (born 1998) is a novelist and poet. She is the author of the novel ''Bestiary'' (2020). ''Bestiary'' was long-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 2021. In 2018 she published a poetry collection, ''Past Lives, Future Bodies''. Personal life K-Ming Chang was born in 1998, the year of the tiger, and grew up in California. In elementary school, Chang wrote a story about a girl who turns into a tiger; she later recalled it, humorously, as a "really terrible" story. This story contained the seeds of her eventual first novel, ''Bestiary''. Chang currently lives in New York. Writing Chang is the Micro editor at ''The Offing'' magazine. ''Past Lives, Future Bodies'' Chang published ''Past Lives, Future Bodies'' in 2018 with Black Lawrence Press. The chapbook takes up themes of matrilineality contrasted with "volatile masculinity", writes Luiza Flynn-Goodlett. In her review, Flynn-Goodlett praised the "magic conjure ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
