Dear Friends,<\/p>\n
Welcome to the LR Blog!\u00a0 The weeks of anticipation are finally over. We’re pleased to announce today’s launch, which coincides with the launch of our full web site<\/a> and preview<\/a> of our magazine’s layout.\u00a0 Please add us to your RSS feeds and spread the word wherever you can!\u00a0 We have a lot of exciting new content lined up for our first month, including a review of Ching-In Chen’s debut book The Heart’s Traffic<\/em> and interviews with poet Luisa Igloria and Kundiman founder Joseph Legaspi, but before we begin to post new content, we thought we would take the opportunity to introduce the regular columns that we’ll be running:<\/p>\n\n
\n<\/strong>Here’s where we’ll post news and updates about the magazine, blog, and web site.<\/li>\n
\nEvery once in a while, the editors will share things that we like or that we think might be of interest to our readers.\u00a0 This column is the place where you’ll find our selections.<\/li>\n
\nIn this column, the editors will post about news that’s happening to our friends and neighbors in the Asian American arts community. Once a week, we’ ll also deliver a roundup of relevant events happening in major metropolitan areas.<\/li>\n
\n<\/strong>Every Friday afternoon, we’ll post a new writing prompt to help you kick off your weekend.<\/li>\n
\nStaff blogger Supriya Misra will review approximately one new collection of Asian American poetry a month.\u00a0 On occasion, Ly Chheng will also review books of Asian American prose .<\/li>\n
\nOur in-house interviewer Ada Yee (and occasionally other members of the blog team) will conduct and post\u00a0 conversations with leading figures in the Asian American poetry scene.<\/li>\n
\nUndergraduate correspondent Ben-Zhen Sung will provide an insider’s look at life as a college creative writing student, reflecting on process and the poetics of unlikely places along the way.<\/li>\n
\nIn this op-ed style column, staff blogger Ly Chheng will respond to news & current events.<\/li>\n
\nStaff blogger Mrigaa Sethi will engage with language, history, geography and more as she reflects on the poetics and politics of Asian diasporic literature.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n