Poets of Color



Elmaz Abinader, Instructor Office: 313 Mills Hall
510 430 2225 elmaz@earthlink.net
office hours: 5-6:30 Thursday and by appointment

Here are the texts for the class.
• Asian American Poetry: the Next Generation edited by Victoria Chang
• Voices from Leimert Park, ed by Shonda, Buchannan
• Effigies, An Anthology of New Indigenous Writing Pacific Rim, 2009, Okpik, Rexford McDougall, etc (Salt Publishing)
• The Wind Shifts, New Latino Poetry, Edited by Francisco Aragón
• The Essential Etheridge Knight by Etheridge Knight
• Mercy by Lucille Clifton
• Zodiac of Echoes by Khaled Mattawa
• Diwata by Barbara Jane Reyes


Monday, November 26, 2012

For The Zine & The Reading +Bio


From our readings I will read "Echo & Elixir 7" by Mattawa or "The Bamboo Insomnia" by Reyes
For our reading on the 7th I will read "Witness" 
For the zine I'm posting the first writing we did together as a class--when we had to exchange words. 

Bio

Poetics of formation and current


From the first class for the zine--(Tessa I can also email this-- if pasting is a pain for spacing)




Between Bodies (April & Venus)



Surface           without form

what               is

already           and

not                 

  yet                 



we are

Ohio and California


mountain and valley


 we are


the black white love of pumice


green words that float from underground volcanoes


we are


the possibility that rises like new land


eons that are just beginning            


 and breaking

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