{"id":3333,"date":"2011-03-23T21:03:31","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T01:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lanternreview.com\/blog\/?p=3333"},"modified":"2011-03-23T23:54:50","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T03:54:50","slug":"event-coverage-awp-2011-off-site-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/23\/event-coverage-awp-2011-off-site-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Event Coverage: AWP 2011 Off-Site Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"JoAnn<\/a>
JoAnn Balingit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It’s been a little over a month now since AWP 2011 in Washington DC — and this post is more than a little overdue! \u00a0Nonetheless, here it is: our reflection on the very first gathering of Lantern Review <\/em>contributors, readers, and editors. \u00a0Our off-site reading, co-hosted by Boxcar Poetry Review<\/a> “<\/em>in\u00a0celebration of the little online magazine,” took place on Friday, February 4th at Go Mama Go!, a lovely, eclectic art supply & gift shop (ceramics, antique soda bottles, shot glasses, bright paper umbrellas) whose owner greeted us with a warm, “Are you here for the Chinese poetry?” when we first walked into the door. \u00a0“Well… yes?” we said, though really we were there for so much more.<\/p>\n

\"Rapt<\/a>
Friends and contributors of LANTERN REVIEW and BOXCAR POETRY REVIEW.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Realizing that a gathering of people interested in Asian American poetry could perhaps be mistaken for enthusiasts of Chinese verse, we decided that this was an appropriate place for our reading to begin: with an assumption that would, as the night progressed, be stretched and proliferated across a variety of subjects, styles, personalities, and identities. \u00a0We heard from lovers, from daughters and sons, from fighters and artists, ethnic selves, queer selves, and — at times — just plain selves<\/em> confronted with the complex reality of living in the twenty-first century.<\/p>\n

We had the pleasure of hearing seven different\u00a0Lantern Review <\/em>contributors, all of whom read poems published in either Issue 1 or Issue 2 alongside other pieces prepared for the event. \u00a0Though most of us had never met before, there was a wonderful camaraderie in the room — after tipping the microphone down a few inches, Issue 2 contributor Kathleen Hellen joked that, being a little-ish person, she loved little-ish poems and planned to share a few with us.<\/p>\n

\"Kathleen<\/a>
Kathleen Hellen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Contributor Rajiv Mohabir impressed us with his unexplained passion for whales, even pulling off his fleece to show the back of his t-shirt. \u00a0Sure enough: whale.<\/p>\n

To be perfectly honest, in preparing for this event I had no idea what — or who, rather — to expect. \u00a0Sure, we had a list of readers and printed programs, but in curating the poems for our two issues, I’d developed certain notions of “who” our contributors were: Poet X, author of Poem Y, was surely <\/em>this kind of person, or at least that’s what I thought after spending so much time with their persona on the page. \u00a0But would I be proved mistaken when I met them in real life?<\/p>\n

\"Kimberly<\/a>
Kimberly Alidio<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Seeing the men and women “behind the issues,” however, playing the wonderful game of matching poet face to poetic voice, was a fabulous experience. \u00a0At this event, a community that had previously existed only as a textual (and virtual!) reality became, for the first time, embodied in flesh: jeans and scarves, breath and lungs and vocal chords. \u00a0Hearing these contributors’ voices <\/em>for the first time,\u00a0particularly when each poet read their LR <\/em>piece, was phenomenal. \u00a0Personas that previously existed only as textual markings on a computer screen became live <\/em>presences, embodied on stage before our very eyes.<\/p>\n

\"W.<\/a>
W. Todd Kaneko<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This could be an overreaction — the online magazine, and indeed the publishing world itself, has been around a long time, and “meeting your editor\/contributors for the first time” is terribly old news. \u00a0For us, however, newly minted and only in our second year, the event was a wonderful success. \u00a0A true celebration of the little online magazine. \u00a0We’re grateful to our contributors, particularly those who were there with us at Go Mama Go! on the 4th, and to all the other readers and writers who make this virtual and literary community a living network of flesh-and-bone people around the nation. \u00a0Thank you for your support, and for joining us in exploring the open-ended question of Asian American poetry.<\/p>\n

\"LR<\/a>
LR Readers & Editors<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Also, thanks to Iris’ foresight and inner documentary filmmaker, you can hear clips of their readings below:<\/p>\n

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Kimberly Alidio
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JoAnn Balingit
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Kathleen Hellen
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W. Todd Kaneko
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Rajiv Mohabir
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Angela Veronica Wong
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Kristine Uyeda
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More . . . <\/strong><\/p>\n

For a complete set of images from the reading, visit our Flickr photostream<\/a>, which also contains photos of other panels and readings we attended at AWP 2011. \u00a0You can also check out our YouTube channel<\/a>, where all seven videos are posted in chronological order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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