{"id":3912,"date":"2011-05-31T12:00:08","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T16:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lanternreview.com\/blog\/?p=3912"},"modified":"2011-05-30T20:55:07","modified_gmt":"2011-05-31T00:55:07","slug":"editors-picks-apia-writing-doesnt-end-with-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/31\/editors-picks-apia-writing-doesnt-end-with-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Editors&#8217; Picks: APIA Writing Doesn&#8217;t End with May."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/45bjhkpa3uY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps it sounds obvious, but engagement with APIA art and writing shouldn&#8217;t be limited to the Month of May:\u00a0 APIA writers and artists are, of course, producing and performing and publishing new and challenging works all year round.\u00a0 Here are a few recommendations to get you started for the summer (in no particular order):<\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0<a title=\"Takeo Rivera's GOLIATH\" href=\"http:\/\/poetictheater.com\/goliath\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Takeo Rivera&#8217;s GOLIATH (dir. Alex Mallory)<\/strong><\/a>.  This powerful one-act choreopoem about the implications of the Iraq  War, which began life as an original student play at Stanford, is making  its New York City debut tomorrow, thanks to the brilliant creative  talents of its playwright (Takeo Rivera) and its director (Alex  Mallory).\u00a0 Takeo is one of those rising-star-types whose work is  impossible to miss once it&#8217;s entered your periphery: his aesthetic roots  lie in the brave activism and the rhythmically-compelling sonic and dramatic gestures of spoken word, and his critical approach to his subject  matter is thoughtful, complex, and blade-sharp (he has a Masters Degree  in Modern Thought &amp; Literature and is about to enter a PhD in  performance studies this fall).\u00a0 Alex (GOLIATH&#8217;s director), is also a  forced to be reckoned with: she&#8217;s been directing productions and  workshops in New York for a couple of years now, and before that, in college,  she honed her chops by directing a number of major student productions  and by founding The Stanford Theatre Activist Mobilization Project.\u00a0 Alex was also the major force behind bringing GOLIATH to the Big Apple.\u00a0 GOLIATH has been newly revised for the  New York stage and will be playing at the Robert Moss Theater for the  next two weeks. If you&#8217;re living in New York City or will be in its  vicinity during the next few weeks, I urge you to see this play. I<em> <\/em>t&#8217;s not something you want to miss!\u00a0 [See the teaser trailer above].<\/p>\n<p>2. <a title=\"Kartika Review Reading\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/event.php?eid=198447516864191\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>&#8220;We Axe You to Speak&#8221;: <em>Kartika Review&#8217;<\/em>s first poetry reading<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 Yes, folks.\u00a0 <em>Kartika Review&#8217;s <\/em>inaugural reading event is<em> tonight <\/em>(6 to 8 pm at the SF Public Library, 100 Larkin St), and I highly recommend it (though I&#8217;m sad that I&#8217;ll have to miss it  because I&#8217;m not on the West Coast).\u00a0 Barbara Jane Reyes, Eddy Zheng,  Margaret Rhee, Shelley Wong, and Kenji C. Liu.\u00a0 Great lineup.\u00a0  Landmark event.\u00a0 To those of you in the Bay Area: GO.\u00a0 You do <em>not <\/em>want to miss this if you can help it.<\/p>\n<p>3.<a title=\"I GOT MY Video\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lFxgYZdHlno\" target=\"_blank\"><strong> &#8220;I Got My&#8221;\u00a0 Music Video ft. Jin [Magnetic North and Taiyo Na]<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0  Bao Phi posted on Facebook that this &#8220;is not a music video &#8211; more like  an Asian American family reunion, or maybe a map. Whatever it is, it&#8217;s a  gift.&#8221;\u00a0 One can&#8217;t help but agree: so many landmark APIA faces!\u00a0 The  video was created for APIA month, but its awesomeness, of course,  extends far beyond the month of May alone.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lFxgYZdHlno?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->4. <a title=\"2011 Kundiman Retreat Reading\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kundiman.org\/retreat\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The 2011 Kundiman Retreat Reading<\/strong><\/a>. We always recommend Kundiman events here at <em>LR<\/em>, of course, but I&#8217;m afraid that this particular recommendation also comes mixed with a bit of shameless self-promotion: <a href=\"http:\/\/lanternreview.com\/blog\/author\/henry\/\" target=\"_blank\">Henry Leung<\/a> and I are going to have the privilege of participating in this year&#8217;s retreat as first-time fellows, and we&#8217;re incredibly excited to be able to write and perform alongside both the other new fellows and the corps of returning fellows.\u00a0 This year&#8217;s headlining faculty members are Kimiko Hahn, Jon Pineda, and Karen An-hwei Lee.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll <a title=\"2011 Kundiman Retreat Reading\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kundiman.org\/retreat\/\" target=\"_blank\">giving a reading<\/a> at Fordham Lincoln Center on June 17th at 7 pm (I&#8217;ll try to follow up with more details later).\u00a0 Come hear us on Friday, stay overnight, and catch GOLIATH&#8217;s closing performance on Saturday for an awesome NYC weekend full of APIA literary and performing arts! <strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>5. <strong><a title=\"HYPHEN Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hyphenmagazine.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">The HYPHEN Magazine Blog<\/a>. <\/strong> <em>Hyphen<\/em> is a hub for all things related to Asian America\u2014and it covers everything from pop culture to food to books to politics in an incredibly sharp, politically-astute way.\u00a0 I am <em>just <\/em>a little obsessed with their\u00a0 feed (which I follow via Facebook). If you don&#8217;t already follow this magazine, you need to.\u00a0 Stat. End of story.<\/p>\n<p>6. <strong><a title=\"Open City\" href=\"http:\/\/openthecity.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Open City Blog<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 This is the Asian American Writer&#8217;s Workshop&#8217;s most recent online project.\u00a0 In their own words:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>AAWW\u2019s <strong>OPEN CITY: Blogging Urban Change<\/strong> is an  interdisciplinary neighborhood blog and community project coordinated by  the Asian American Writers\u2019 Workshop (AAWW).\u00a0 Five commissioned  writers, called Organizing Fellows, are working with community  organizations and neighborhood folks in Manhattan\u2019s Chinatown\/Lower East  Side (LES), Flushing, Queens, and Sunset Park, Brooklyn to collect oral  histories and interviews, offer commentary about gentrification,  neighborhood change, and produce new creative work around these themes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Later on in their &#8220;About&#8221; statement, they conceptualize their project as an &#8220;urban tryptich,&#8221; and the sites of their written observations and engagement as a &#8220;constellation&#8221; of portraits that\u2014while never complete\u2014is ever-evolving.\u00a0 I love the way that this describes both the historical and creative work of documentation, and the way in which their chosen medium (a collaborative blog) reflects these dual impulses towards collectivity and fluidity. (I also, incidentally, love their choice of url\u2014&#8221;Open the City&#8221;\u2014which comprises a call to action, rather than a titular placeholder).\u00a0<em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p>7. <strong><a title=\"Kaya Forthcoming Titles\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kaya.com\/genres\/2\" target=\"_blank\">Kaya Press&#8217;s forthcoming releases<\/a>: <\/strong>Kaya Press has recently put up two forthcoming titles for pre-order: <em>Water Chasing Water<\/em> by Koon Woon and <em>Lament in the Night <\/em>by Shos\u00f4n Nagahara.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure exactly when these two books will actually become available to ship (the web site doesn&#8217;t say; if anyone knows this information, please do let us know and I&#8217;ll update this post to reflect it), but I&#8217;m particularly intrigued by <a title=\"WATER CHASING WATER\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kaya.com\/books\/29\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Water Chasing Water<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 The cover art is extraordinary, and the description (which includes a quote by Bob Holman in which he calls the poet &#8220;Li Po in drag, the voice of New America&#8221; and which then goes on to characterize this new collection as a continuation of &#8220;his exploration of loneliness and memory with poems and essays that seek  out &#8220;&#8216;his light \/ Without which existence is not detectable'&#8221;) sounds absolutely tantalizing.<\/p>\n<p>7. <strong>APIA-relevant Lit Mags: <\/strong>I&#8217;d be amiss not to include this on my list.\u00a0 <a title=\"DOVEGLION\" href=\"http:\/\/www.doveglion.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Doveglion<\/em><\/a> has recently put out a few new essays (in installments), and <a title=\"The Asian American Literary Review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aalrmag.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>AALR<\/em><\/a>&#8216;s lovely, thick second issue came out this spring (it&#8217;s sitting at the top of my book queue, awaiting a read).\u00a0 I&#8217;ve no doubt that our friends at <em><a title=\"KARTIKA REVIEW\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kartikareview.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kartika<\/a> <\/em>and <em><a title=\"CHA\" href=\"http:\/\/www.asiancha.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cha<\/a> <\/em>are busily working on new issues, too.<\/p>\n<p><strong>And of course, keep your eyes open for <em>Lantern Review <\/em>Issue 3!\u00a0 (Don&#8217;t forget: our current <a title=\"LANTERN REVIEW Submissions Guidelines\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/submissionsguidelines.html\" target=\"_blank\">submissions period<\/a> closes <em>tomorrow <\/em>at midnight EST).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps it sounds obvious, but engagement with APIA art and writing shouldn&#8217;t be limited to the Month of May:\u00a0 APIA writers and artists are, of course, producing and performing and publishing new and challenging works all year round.\u00a0 Here are a few recommendations to get you started for the summer (in no particular order): 1.\u00a0Takeo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[15],"tags":[191,641,643,312,540,29,644,642,440,640,157],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3912"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3912"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3930,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3912\/revisions\/3930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}