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Raw Inspiration: Postcard From Shanghai
The first time my then-fiancée mentioned Shanghai, China, and our future in the same sentence, we were canoodling in our favorite pizza place in Massachusetts. I, wildly in love, responded to the possibility with nothing more than a slight pause. “Move to China?” I asked. “Sure, why not!”
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Ken Chen Named Executive Director of Asian American Writers' Workshop
The Asian American Writers’ Workshop announced today the appointment of
Ken Chen to the post of executive director of the organization. His
predecessor, Quang Bao, stepped down in January.
Writing Workshop Documentary to Air on PBS
A half-hour documentary on a local writing workshop that began in
southern New Hampshire in 1974 is being aired on public television
stations across the country during National Poetry Month. Mondays at Skimmilk: 30 Years of Writers at Work,
directed by Ken Browne, originally aired last April on New Hampshire
Public Television, but has since been picked up by American Public
Television and is being presented on nearly fifty PBS stations in more
than two dozen states.
An Interview With Writer and Editor Ander Monson
Ander Monson’s fourth book, the poetry collection Our Aperture, was published in January by New Michigan Press. It’s a short thirty pages, but it further extends the reach of the author’s genre-bending work. Poets & Writers Magazine recently asked Monson about his predilection for playing with genre.
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Poetry and Conflict: Postcard From St. Andrews, Scotland
Five years ago, as poets and readers attended the annual StAnza poetry festival, the war began in Iraq. This year’s festival, held from March 12 to March 16, acknowledged that anniversary explicitly with its two themes, “Poetry & Conflict” and “Sea of Tongues.”
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U.S. Borders Closed to British Memoirist
British author Sebastian Horsley, whose memoir, Dandy in the Underworld
(Sceptre, 2007), depicts a lifestyle of copious drug use and
exploitation of prostitutes, was denied entry into the United States
last Tuesday. U.S. customs officials at New Jersey's Newark Liberty
International Airport detained Horsley, adorned in top hat and
three-piece suit; after eight hours of questioning about his drug
addiction and sexual exploits, he was deported.
Literary Magazines in the Running for 2008 Ellies
The American Society of Magazine Editors announced yesterday the
finalists for the 2008 National Magazine Awards. The annual awards,
also known as the Ellies, honor print and online magazines "that
consistently demonstrate superior execution of editorial objectives,
innovative editorial techniques, noteworthy journalistic enterprise,
and imaginative design." Among the 128 finalists in twenty-five
categories were the usual titles—the New Yorker led the finalists with twelve nominations—but a number of literary magazines are also in the running.
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