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Thursday, January 18, 2007

Places not found: readings about place and chapbook release

featuring writers from KSW’s fall 2006 writing workshop with Thy Tran, Putting the There in There

Join KSW and Thy Tran’s KSW fall 2006 writing workshop for an evening of readings about place, and the release of the next in KSW’s chapbook series, Places not found , with original cover illustration and design by graphic designer and visual artist Amy Lam. Featuring new work from emerging literary voices of the San Francisco Bay Area–Oscar Bermeo, Nicole Hsiang, Harry Mok, Nirmala Nataraj, Robynn Takayama, and Debbie Yee –the readings will be followed by a reception and opportunity for book signings and meeting the writers.

Date/Time: Thursday, January 18th , 2007; 7 – 9pm

Location: KSW’s space180, 180 capp street, @ 17th street, San Francisco

Cost: $5

Info: www.kearnystreet.org

Suffice to say that 2006 was a banner year for your boy in the bay. Where once I was absolutely paralyzed at the thought of change – with near personally catastrophic results – I changed my tune and made 2006 the year that everything would change and it did. And it also didn’t.

This is to say that I shook up everything in my life but instead of thing turning all topsy-turvy (which I never thought they would), they all came out right as rain (which is what I was planning on).

Y basta! Enough lookin’ back at the world through a rear view mirror, time for the long ride ahead.

I am NOT about resolutions, instead I will let y’all know what IS gonna go down in the Deuce-Lucky:
-I will be starting college. Yeah, I did like two semesters a long time ago in a galaxy called the 80s but I sure didn’t have my heart in it which means I will fully embrace this (re)start at higher education.
-I will begin editing the Poetry section for a local arts magazine, more info on this when the official update goes up.
-I will cook a legit Valenican Paealla (sans the rabbit).
-I will be applying for at least two writing internships.
-I will catalog the house library.

That’s all I can think of right at this second but I am sure more fun stuff will appear as the year goes on, including the 4-1-1 for my next Bay Area reading.

Love ya like homemade soup

2nd Ave Poetry vol. 2



many talented writers bringing the hotness, including past acentos features:
regie cabico
sarah gambito
rigoberto gonzales
paolo javier
urayoan noel
barbara jane reyes
patrick rosal

take care y’all!

in a little bit, i will be sending my submission for the next kearny street workshop chapbook. this will mark a bit of a change in that i will be mixing it up with overheard conversations, transcripted (at least in my head) monologues, a fiction excerpt and a flarf poem. yeah, quite the mixed bag o’stuff but the eclectic nature of my writing speaks very much to the fact that literature keeps leaving me with more questions than answers.

the good thing is that the answers i am getting are feeling more and more genuine. take for example the fact that while i am going with a flurry of styles, the theme for the work remains consistent: cartography, the are of map making. with that start, i have a whole new appreciation for the science behind this skill which takes the invisible and makes it visible (thank you for that phrase, señor espada).

the biggest imprint this is leaving on me is this open-ended question that i will pose to whoever is reading this:

Do you want your poems to look like this:

Or, do you want them to look like this:

both will get you from point a to point b but one does it with an eye towards aesthetics and one with a desire to be realistic. is one more confusing then the another? maybe. are they both “true”? yeah. but i will leave it up to y’all which is for you.

love ya like a rushed commuter loves an empty seat!

Points Not Found On Any Map—
Except the one that exists in my mind

an atlas of nationalism

[Poem was here. Now found at Points Not Found]

what i would be doing if i was in new york tonight? hearing rich villar drop the new hotness at the nuyorican pets cafe. since that aint gonna happen, mebbe one of y’all might go for me and report back.

Friday, November 24th @ 10pm
The Nuyorican Friday Night Slam
Spotlight Poet: Rich Villar

The Nuyorican Poets Cafe
236 E. 3rd St. between Ave. B & C
(Rev. Pedro Pietri Way)
F Train to 2nd Ave.
$7 cover

Line up early, or risk not getting in at all. Be on line by 9:15pm at the latest.