Poets of Color Mills College 2012: shameless plug: come watch me read for litcrawl!

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

Sunday, October 7, 2012

shameless plug: come watch me read for litcrawl!

Please come to my Lit Crawl reading this Saturday! We can go together to other Lit Crawl readings (Phase 2 and Phase 3). It'll be a blast, I promise. Hope to see you there.

Maybe we can all meet at a BART station on Sat? At 4pm? (I have to be there 20 minutes earlier!)

LIT CRAWL – BARRIO FIESTA (WAVE 1)
IRMA’S – 2901 16TH STREET
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13 | 6 PM

There will be free lumpia!

More info here:

http://litcrawl.org/sf/events/barrio-fiesta/

https://www.facebook.com/events/416982075016389/

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ElmazwritesOctober 8, 2012 at 3:57 PM
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The Class Schedule

THE SCHEDULE—DON’T LOSE ME

Date

Reading

Topic, etc

9/4 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/article/177377

Langston Hughes, attached—poems of history: How to read poems, what the class is about, a little intro What Langston (and other renaissance poet)s did

9/11 http://orelitrev.startlogic.com/v2n2/OregonLiteraryReview.htm

Abani, Welch, Harper, Mill, Moss, Jordan

From AAP: Adrienne Su; Maria de Los Santos and Aimee Nezhukumatathil how does history and poetry relate and create each other

9/18 AAP: Khanna, Asagi; Tina Chang, Barot; Wind: Melendez, Najarro, Corral Identifying the natural elements from a colonial/post-colonial perspective OR What is place?

9/25 Wind Shifts: Domiguez and Cabrillo; Alcala, Ayala, Luna. Leimert: Coleman, Tabu Placement historically and culturally, dominance and subordination; center and edge

9/29 AAP: Noguchi, Triplett, Roripaugh, Jennifer Chang..; Wind: all of Adela Najarro Family is a different idea than we know. Homage not as dangerous as we think

10/2 How difference is viewed—AAP: de la Paz, Su, Carbo; Effigies: Okpik; Who are the voices and what are their instruments

10/9 How difference is made distinct.

Leimert: Quickly, Padron, Tolliver

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdFXaDj0dYk&feature=related

Consider who in a broader context and then look at the work

10/16 Music—Leimert: Forman, Williams

AAP Reddy, Mong Lan, Effigies: Perez-

Wendt, Wind, Cardenas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFbE8RBhSDw&feature=related

Finding beat and space and spatially representing the voice,

10/23 Identity—Excerpts from Effigies , Rexford; AAP Dempster: Wind, Gonzalez y Luna, Leimert: Mercier, Manranon It comes down to one: shaping a poet

10/30

Close reading of Diwata Barbara Jane Reyes

11/6

Close Reading of Etheridge Knight Presentation One

11/13

Close Reading of Lucille Clifton Presentation Two

11/20

Close Reading of Khaled Mattawa

Presentation Three

11/27 performance nite We are our own literature.

Final Project is due 12/6