{"id":4974,"date":"2011-12-21T08:00:17","date_gmt":"2011-12-21T13:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lanternreview.com\/blog\/?p=4974"},"modified":"2011-12-21T03:51:52","modified_gmt":"2011-12-21T08:51:52","slug":"friends-neighbors-rounding-out-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/21\/friends-neighbors-rounding-out-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Friends & Neighbors: Rounding Out 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here are a few exciting tidbits of news from the LR <\/em>community to round out our last day of posts before hiatus (which takes effect tonight, along with the submissions deadline for Issue 4!\u00a0 Don’t forget to send your work in\u2014the system will be open until 11:59 pm EST).<\/p>\n

Videopoem for Kenji C. Liu’s “A Son Writes Back”<\/strong><\/p>\n

LR c<\/em>ontributor Kenji C. Liu sent us a link to this awesome video<\/a> he created for his poem “A Son Writes Back<\/a>” (the most recent version of which appeared in Issue 2<\/a>). The video combines an audio performance of Kenji’s poem with musical accompaniment by Jason Jong.\u00a0 According to its caption on Vimeo, the visuals in the piece are footage from “a US Air Force propaganda film portraying aerial attacks on Imperial Japan during World War II.”\u00a0 Watch the embedded version below, or follow the links beneath it to watch on Vimeo.<\/p>\n