The Scorecard



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Very happy to report that my submission to the VONA Summer Writing Workshop has been accepted and that means I will be having a week long intensive with Willie Perdomo.

Can ya say: Boo-Yah!? Yes, I knew ya could.

Here are the poems I sent VONA
– About B-Boys in the Boogie Down
– both a place and a scare-word
– The Truth (and some Lies) about the Bronx
– tricking the eye
– Poem written to the Jimmy Castor Bunch’s “It’s Just Begun”

This submission relied very heavily on my group of Bronx poems which is what I felt was my strongest work about six weeks ago. Flash forward to right here, right now and I think I would have sent them a group of poems that have a bit more geographic movement. But hey, I am in the program so I got nuthin to complain about.

Speaking of new hotness, I will be reading at IWL tomorrow which will be a good opportunity to test out the new, and in some cases, very different work that has come out of these workshops. Hope to see ya there!

IWL 2007 Night 2


IWL 2007
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The second public IWL 2007 event is on Wednesday, April 25th, 2007, at Intersection for the Arts, and features readings and performances from playwright and poet Octavio Solis, poet and performer Genny Lim, playwright and performer Prince Gomolvilas, and IWL 2007 participants Maile Arvin, Oscar Bermeo, Ramekon O’Arwisters, Carlo Sciammas, Jaime Omar Yassin, and Debbie Yee.

Date: Wednesday, April 25th, 2007

Time: 7pm

Location: Intersection for the Arts, 446 Valencia Street, @ 16th street, san francisco

Cost: $7 – 15 sliding scale.

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