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Split (poetry Collection)
''Split'' is a 2014 debut poetry collection by American poet Cathy Linh Che, published by Alice James Books. It won the Kundiman Poetry Prize in 2012 and was named a "standout book of the year" by the Academy of American Poets. It additionally was selected by Adrian Matejka for the Norma Farber First Book Award. Background Che wrote the book's poems based on the stories of her parents during the Vietnam War and after resettlement in the wake of the Fall of Saigon, as well as her own experiences as a survivor. In ''The Margins'', Che stated:My parents have been telling me their stories of Vietnam throughout my life, and it seemed to me that in movies, newspapers, literature, their voices and stories were egregiously absent. I wanted to address this absence by writing their stories—and really, my story, our Vietnamese and American and Vietnamese American story—so that they could participate in the polyphony of voices constructing the American narrative.Of the title, Che stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cathy Linh Che
Cathy Linh Che is a Vietnamese American poet from Los Angeles. She won the Kundiman Poetry prize, the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America, and the Best Poetry Book Award from the Association for Asian American Studies for her book ''Split''. Life Cathy Linh Che attended Reed College and New York University where she received her Bachelor of Arts and Master of Fine Arts degrees. In an interview done by Emerson College, Che states, "I was raised in Highland Park in a working class Asian and Latinx immigrant community. So, while there were plenty of clashes between my parents and me, it was something that everyone around me experienced so I never felt different or alone until going away to college." In 2018, she helped organize the Kundiman "Because We Come From Everything" project. She participated in the digital project the "Poetics of Haunting," curated by Jane Wong. Writing career When asked in an interview at Emerson College of what brought ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice James Books
Alice James Books is an American non-profit poetry press located in New Gloucester, Maine. History and mission "Alice James Books was founded as a co-operative press in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Cambridge, MA in 1973 by five women and two men: Patricia Cumming, Marjorie Fletcher, Lee Rudolph, Ron Schreiber, Betsy Sholl, Cornelia Veenendaal, and Jean Pedrick. The intent of this company was to provide women with a greater representation in literature and involve the writer in the publishing process. In the 1970s women writers had a very difficult time being published. Recognizing this dire need, Alice James Books was established." Exhibits > Jean Pedrick: A Virtual Exhibit of Her Life and Work > Alice James Books">UNH - Manchester Library > Special Home > Exhibits > Jean Pedrick: A Virtual Exhibit of Her Life and Work > Alice James Books/ref> Maine Poet Laureate Betsy Sholl shared her memory of being a founding member of the press in an interview: "The experience of starting the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norma Farber First Book Award
The Norma Farber First Book Award is given by the Poetry Society of America "for a first book of original poetry written by an American and published in either a hard or soft cover in a standard edition during the calendar year". Poetry Society of America Web site, Web page titled "PSA Annual Awards Guidelines", accessed October 28, 2006 The award was established by the family and friends of the poet and children's book author Norma Farber. The award comes with a $500 prize. Winners {, class="sortable" !Year !Winner !Title !Judge , - , 2023 , Paul Hlava Ceballos , ''banana ' , Chase Berggrun , - , 2022, , Amanda Larson, , ''Gut (Omnidawn)'', , Mark Bibbins , - , 2021, , Taylor Johnson, , ''Inheritance'' , , Francine J. Harris , - , 2020, , Zaina Alsous, , ''A Theory of Birds'' , , Matthew Shenoda , - , 2019, , Anna Maria Hong, , ''Age of Glass'' , , Geoffrey G. O'Brien , - , 2018, , Eve L. Ewing, , ''Electric Arches'' , , Elizabeth Macklin , - , 2017, , Vinc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kundiman (nonprofit Organization)
Kundiman is a nonprofit organization dedicated to writers and readers of Asian American literature. Among its services are readings, workshops, mentorship programs, writing intensives, as well as a poetry prize and an annual writing retreat, the Kundiman Retreat. History Kundiman was co-founded in 2004 by poets Sarah Gambito and Joseph O. Legaspi after discussing the need for literary community among Asian Americans while at Gambito's family barbecue. The organization’s name refers to a style of Filipino love song, kundiman, that served as veiled patriotism during colonial times. In 2009, Kundiman announced a collaboration with Alice James Books for a $2,000 book publication prize for Asian American poets, marking the first book prize ever of its kind. In 2018, Kundiman Fellow Kyle Lucia Wu hosted a Wikipedia edit-a-thon in partnership with Wikimedia NYC and the Asian American Writers' Workshop to create, revise, and update pages pertaining to Asian American literature. Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Academy Of American Poets
The Academy of American Poets is a national, member-supported organization that promotes poets and the art of poetry. The nonprofit organization was incorporated in the state of New York in 1934. It fosters the readership of poetry through outreach activities such as National Poetry Month, its website Poets.org, the syndicated series Poem-a-Day, ''American Poets'' magazine, readings and events, and poetry resources for K-12 educators. In addition, it sponsors a portfolio of nine major poetry awards, of which the first was a fellowship created in 1946 to support a poet and honor "distinguished achievement," and more than 200 prizes for student poets. In 1984, Robert Penn Warren noted that "To have great poets there must be great audiences, Whitman said, to the more or less unheeding ears of American educators. Ambitiously, hopefully, the Academy has undertaken to remedy this plight." In 1998, Dinitia Smith described the Academy of American Poets as "a venerable body at the symboli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrian Matejka
Adrian Matejka is an American poet and author of ''The Devil's Garden'' and ''Mixology''. His most decorated work is ''The Big Smoke'', which won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and was nominated for the National Book Award for Poetry and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Indiana State Poet Laureate for the 2018–2019 term, since May 2022, he has been the editor of ''Poetry (magazine), Poetry'' magazine. Life Born in Nuremberg, Germany, while his family served in the U.S. military, Adrian Matejka was raised in Indianapolis, Indiana, in the United States. He graduated from Indiana University Bloomington and Southern Illinois University Carbondale with an MFA in Creative Writing. He has received fellowships from the Cave Canem Foundation, Cave Canem Workshop, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation, the Lannan Literary Awards, Lannan Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and United States Artists. He is the author of ''The Devil's Garden'' and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War (1 November 1955 – 30 April 1975) was an armed conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fought between North Vietnam (Democratic Republic of Vietnam) and South Vietnam (Republic of Vietnam) and their allies. North Vietnam was supported by the Soviet Union and China, while South Vietnam was supported by the United States and other anti-communist nations. The conflict was the second of the Indochina wars and a proxy war of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and US. The Vietnam War was one of the postcolonial wars of national liberation, a theater in the Cold War, and a civil war, with civil warfare a defining feature from the outset. Direct United States in the Vietnam War, US military involvement escalated from 1965 until its withdrawal in 1973. The fighting spilled into the Laotian Civil War, Laotian and Cambodian Civil Wars, which ended with all three countries becoming Communism, communist in 1975. After the defeat of the French Union in the First Indoc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fall Of Saigon
The fall of Saigon, known in Vietnam as Reunification Day (), was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by North Vietnam on 30 April 1975. As part of the 1975 spring offensive, this decisive event led to the collapse of the South Vietnamese government and the evacuation of thousands of U.S. personnel and South Vietnamese civilians, and marked the end of the Vietnam War. The aftermath ushered in a transition period under North Vietnamese control, culminating in the formal reunification of the country as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam under communist rule on 2 July 1976. The People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) and the Viet Cong (VC), under the command of General Văn Tiến Dũng, began their final attack on Saigon on 29 April 1975, with the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) forces commanded by General Nguyễn Văn Toàn suffering a heavy artillery bombardment. By the afternoon of the next day, the PAVN/VC had occupied the important points of the city a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sally Wen Mao
Sally Wen Mao (born in Wuhan, China) is an American poet. She won a 2017 Pushcart Prize. Life She grew up in Boston and the Bay Area. She graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a BFA and Cornell University, with an MFA. Her work has appeared in A Public Space, Poetry Magazine, Bomb, Diagram, Four Way Review, Indiana Review, Kenyon Review, Missouri Review, Muzzle, Superstitution, and Washington Square Review. Her first book of poems, ''Mad Honey Symposium'', was published by Alice James Books in 2014, and her second book, ''Oculus'', was published by Graywolf Press in 2019. ''Oculus'' has been reviewed by ''The New Yorker''. From 2016 to 2017, she was a fellow at thCullman Center for Writers and Scholarsat The New York Public Library. From 2017 to 2018, she was Jenny McKean Moore Writer-in-Residence at George Washington University. Sally is a Kundiman fellow. Works * ''Mad Honey Symposium'' Alice James Books, 2014. * ''Oculus'', Graywolf Press, 2019. , * '' T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugenia Leigh
''Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows'' is a 2014 book of poetry by the Korean American poet Eugenia Leigh. It was well received, reviewers commenting on its themes of abuse and redemption. Context Eugenia Leigh graduated from Sarah Lawrence College. Her poetry has appeared in ''Drunken boat'', ''Pank,'' ''Rattle'', ''The Rumpus'', ''North American Review'', and ''Solstice''. She is editor of Hyphen magazine, and has served as the poetry editor of ''Kartika Review''. Book Publication ''Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows'' (2014, Four Way Books, 84 pages, ) is Leigh's first book of poetry. It has four sections; each of the first three are entitled "Blood"; the fourth is entitled "Sparrows". There are 41 poems in all. Some have biblical titles, such as "Genesis", "Selah", "Psalm 107", and "Testament". The eponymous poem "Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows" is in section III. Reception The book is described by Kenji Liu in ''Rumpus'' as masterful, maintaining freshness despite focusing tightly on a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Publishers Weekly
''Publishers Weekly'' (''PW'') is an American weekly trade news magazine targeted at publishers, librarians, booksellers, and literary agents. Published continuously since 1872, it has carried the tagline, "The International News Magazine of Book Publishing and Bookselling." With 51 issues a year, the emphasis today is on book reviews. History Nineteenth century The magazine was founded by bibliographer Frederick Leypoldt in the late 1860s and had various titles until Leypoldt settled on the name ''The Publishers' Weekly'' (with an apostrophe) in 1872. The publication was a compilation of information about newly published books, collected from publishers and from other sources by Leypoldt, for an audience of booksellers. By 1876, ''The Publishers' Weekly'' was being read by nine tenths of the booksellers in the country. In 1878, Leypoldt sold ''The Publishers' Weekly'' to his friend Richard Rogers Bowker, in order to free up time for his other bibliographic endeavors. Augu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles Review
The ''Los Angeles Review'' is an annual print and online literary journal. It was established in 2003. Dr. Kate Gale, managing editor of Red Hen Press Red Hen Press is an American non-profit press located in Pasadena, California, and specializing in the publication of poetry, literary fiction, and nonfiction. The press is a member of the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses, and was a fin ..., is its editor. Reportedly, each issue is dedicated to a West coast writer. It has been presenting awards for writers. In 2016, the Los Angeles Review has introduced awards for: Short Fiction; Flash Fiction; Creative Nonfiction and Poetry. In it ran 'Poetry Event' that year. References External links *{{Official website, http://losangelesreview.org/ Literary magazines published in the United States Academic journals established in 2003 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
