Celebrating New Asian American Poetry
The Great Room, Room 101
19 University Place
6-9PM
Poet Joseph Legaspi, author of Imago, invites nine exciting Asian American poets to read from their new publications. Authors include Jon Pineda, Rick Barot, Jennifer Chang, Oliver de la Paz, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Lisa Chen, Kazim Ali, and Jennifer Kwon Dobbs.

February 2: Association of Writing Programs (AWP)

panel--"Blockheads: The Pleasures and Pains of the Prose Poem"

(with Kim Addonizio, Beth Ann Fennelly, Matthea Harvey, Bob Hicok, and Patrick Rosal)

New York City

1:30pm

March 5: Columbia College Visiting Writer Series

(with Kate Greenstreet and Michael Robins)

Chicago, IL

March 8: Workshop on prose poetry

Asian American Writers' Workshop

Register soon--seats limited!

2-6pm

March 10: LOUDER Arts (with Joseph Legaspi)

13 Bar/Lounge
35 East 13th Street @ University Place, 2nd Floor
4, 5, 6, L, N, Q, R, W to 14th Street/Union Square
7 p.m.
$6 ($5 for students)
2 for 1 drinks all night!

NYC

April 1 & 2:

Indiana University

Bloomington, IN

(with Ross Gay, Patrick Rosal, Aracelis Girmay, Tyehimba Jess and Joseph Legaspi)

June 25-29: Kundiman Asian American Retreat (faculty)

University of Virginia

Charlottesville.VA

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2007

April 11-12:

Poetry Society of America

New American Poets Reading, 7pm

Two back-to-back evenings of ten poets each, with first-book authors Kazim Ali, Sarah Gridley, Tyehimba Jess, Janice Harrington, Jay Hopler, Douglas Kearney, Corinne Lee, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Robyn Schiff, Richard Siken, Tony Tost, and Stephanie Young reading alongside the 2005 and 2006 PSA Chapbook Fellows: Dan Chelotti, Jessica Fjeld, Stuart Greenhouse, Misty Harper, Idra Novey, Cecily Parks, Maya Pindyck, and Maureen Thorson.

$10 for both nights / $7 for PSA Members and Students.
$7 for one night / $5 for PSA Members and Students.

Co-sponsored by The New School Graduate Writing Program.

Tishman Auditorium, The New School
66 West 12th Street, NYC

May 2:

Brown Bag Faculty Presentations

SUNY-Fredonia

Diers Hall

12noon

July 23-27:

Chautauqua Literary Center

Summer Writing Workshops

Sept. 20:

Distinguished Visiting Writers Series

(with MacKenzie Bezos)

Virginia Piper Center for Creative Writing

Arizona State University, Old Main Carson Ballroom

730pm

Oct. 20:

Academy of American Poets: American Poet Magazine Launch

(with Nick Flynn, John Yau, and Jennifer Michael Hecht)

Housing Works Bookstore Cafe (soHo)

NYC

730pm

Oct. 25:

Open Books Bookstore

(with Oliver de la Paz)

Seattle, WA

730pm

Oct. 26:

Western Washington University

Bellingham, WA

Nov. 4:

Kundiman and Verlaine Reading Series

(with Mariko Nagai & Zohra Saed)

Readings begin at 5 pm
Open Bar from 4-5 pm
$5 donation

Verlaine

Nov 9:

Downtown Syracuse Writer's Center

Syracuse, NY

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Previous readings include:

Hamilton College, Ole Miss University, Southern Illinois University, Old Dominion University, UC-Berkeley, San Francisco State University, Asian American Writers' Workshop (NYC), Bowling Green State University, Minnesota State University-Mankato, Wordsworth Books (Cambridge, MA), Bowdoin College, and The John Adams Institute, in Amsterdam, Netherlands