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Top Fivers for the Future – APIA Poetry – Kenji C. Liu

For this seventh and final post for APA Heritage Month, I posed a couple of prompts to all the guest bloggers from this past week–Patricia Y. Ikeda, Iris A. Law, Barbara Jane Reyes, Gerald Maa, and myself. As a way... Continue reading

Posted May 7, 2011 at The Best American Poetry

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Questioning the Book: APIA Poetry and the Politics of Language – Kenji C. Liu

“If my freedom were not in the book, where would it be? If my book were not my freedom, what would it be? Truth cannot but be violent. There is no peaceable truth. [...] The violence of the book is... Continue reading

Posted May 6, 2011 at The Best American Poetry

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Light Delights in Life: Two API Poets From the Americas – Gerald Maa

James Baldwin starts off a masterful essay called “A Fly in Buttermilk” by saying, “I found myself, willy-nilly, alchemized into an American the moment I touched French soil.” When approached with this prompt, I immediately wondered, “forget being an American,... Continue reading

Posted May 5, 2011 at The Best American Poetry

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Thanks Fredken! Hope to see your comments on the other posts in this series.

Commented May 5, 2011 on A Week of Asian Pacific Islander American Poetry - Kenji C. Liu at The Best American Poetry

Shirley Ancheta: Pinay Poet – Barbara Jane Reyes

I have been an admirer of Watsonville poet Shirley Ancheta for many years. I came to her poems when I was a wee undergrad; she became known to me as one of the formative poets of the Kearny Street Workshop... Continue reading

Posted May 4, 2011 at The Best American Poetry

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"across and thru"+"this mean time": Aryanil Mukherjee, Kimberly Alidio, and the Interdisciplinary Lens – Iris A. Law

One of the joys of editing Lantern Review is that Mia (our Associate Editor) and I get to work with contributors from a wide variety of backgrounds. We’ve published work by people who are just venturing out into the world... Continue reading

Posted May 3, 2011 at The Best American Poetry

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Thanks Oscar. I hope the Sith will forgive me when I say that Sith poetry is rather dry and uninteresting. ;-)

Commented May 2, 2011 on A Week of Asian Pacific Islander American Poetry - Kenji C. Liu at The Best American Poetry

Thanks to you Stacey, and to everyone at Best American Poetry for this opportunity.

Commented May 2, 2011 on A Week of Asian Pacific Islander American Poetry - Kenji C. Liu at The Best American Poetry

“so we talk into the night” : talkstory for Asian Pacific Islander American Heritage Month – Patricia Y. Ikeda

You old-timers like fo’ complain. No mo’ moi nowadays, no mo’ papio No mo’ nothin’. from “No Mo’ Fish on Maui,” Barry Masuda My mom grew up in Hawai’i, a Nisei (second generation Japanese American) whose first languages were Japanese... Continue reading

Posted May 2, 2011 at The Best American Poetry

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A Week of Asian Pacific Islander American Poetry - Kenji C. Liu

May is Asian Pacific Islander American (APIA) Heritage Month, and I'm happy to have been given the opportunity to take this week to introduce the Best American Poetry audience to some worthy American poets and journals they may not be... Continue reading

Posted May 1, 2011 at The Best American Poetry

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