hey y'all! so this was no easy decision, been thinkin abt it all damn day.
but, i decided to read lucille clifton's "surely i am able to write poems"...as if that wasn't obvious already ahahahah!
for my own poem, i'm gonna read some new-new. like, so new i haven't even typed it yet, so new it doesn't have a name. it's fresh off the presses of this notebook with its pages falling out (!!!). when i type that up, i'll send it to tessa :-D
oh -- and my five word bio is: runs on shrimp and laughter.
yeaahhhh so excited for this!!!!
Welcome to the Poets of Color of the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries A small sampling of poetry by poets of color are examined in this class as a way of expanding our perception of the American poetry cannon. Our discussions investigate the new forms, open languages, and cultural origins of the works, and also how these poets intersect with the literary terrain.
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, November 25, 2012
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YES to the runs on shrimp and laughter. lol!!! Love it.
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