Comments on: Filipino American Poetas en San Francisco

By: Latino Poetry Review

Latino Poetry Review — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:58:44 +0000

Hi Don:

Thanks for the plug. We just did our sixth Wind Shifts reading in Kansas City, MO last night and the tour winds to a close at Poet’s House in NYC on October 29 with a panel discussion before hand with Rich Villar, Urayoán Noel joining Brenda Cardenas and Gina Franco.

Barbara, I love the curatorial work you’re doing in the Bay Area.

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By: Barbara Jane Reyes

Barbara Jane Reyes — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:31:09 +0000

HI again, Jill, I have been to a very festive reading full of food and family in Fresno. It was organized by Lee Herrick, editor of the journal In the Grove.
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By: Barbara Jane Reyes

Barbara Jane Reyes — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:06:23 +0000

HI folks, thanks for your comments. I also forgot to mention that Arkipelago Books, a Fil-Am owned, local indie bookstore, orders these authors’ books, and am glad to see that a good number of books are sold.

I don’t know if in other cities this happens, but there are also a number of reading series run in people’s private homes in the Bay Area, so that also lends itself to food and booze potluck style.
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By: Don Share

Don Share — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:51:43 +0000

The Guild Complex in Chicago, I would say, and in particular their Palabra Pura series. Other programs of theirs include:

B.Y.O.P. (Bring Your Own People)
The Exchange
Guild Complex Prose Series & Awards
Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Award
Muslim Women Writers Event
Poetry Performance Incubator
The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry national tour
Andrés Montoya and Cave Canem Literary Prizes cohort residencies and reading
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By: Jill

Jill — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:49:07 +0000

These readings sound heavenly. Seriously. I want to go. Are there analogues in other cities that you know of?
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