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March 1 Deadline: Kundiman Asian American Poets’ Retreat
Kundiman Asian American Poets’ Retreat
July 13 – 17, 2005 University of Virginia, Charlottesville Deadline for Application: Postmark March 1, 2005 For more information on Kundiman, see http://www.kundiman.org Introduction In order to help mentor the next generation of Asian-American poets, Kundiman is sponsoring an annual Poetry Retreat at The University of Virginia. During the Retreat, nationally renowned Asian American poets will conduct workshops and provide one-on-one mentorship sessions with participants. Readings and informal social gatherings will also be scheduled. Through this Retreat, Kundiman hopes to provide a safe and instructive environment that identifies and addresses the unique challenges faced by emerging Asian American poets. This 5-day Retreat will take place from Wednesday to Sunday. Workshops will be conducted from Thursday to Saturday. Workshops will not exceed six students. Writing Workshop A nationally renowned Asian American poet will facilitate each writing workshop. Workshops will consist of writing exercises and group discussions on participant poems. At each workshop, participants will be expected to write and workshop new poems. Participants will have the opportunity to take a workshop with every Faculty member. In order to help foster relationships between participants themselves, each participant will be assigned a home group, and will remain in that home group for the duration of the retreat. The Faculty will rotate in the work-shopping of each home group. Mentoring: Conferring and Connections Faculty members will schedule one-on-one conferences with participants. Prior to arriving, participants will submit a request indicating their order of preference as to which poet they would like to meet one-on-one. Administrators will try to accommodate each applicant’s request. Faculty Lawson Inada is third-generation Japanese American, born and raised in Fresno, California. He has taught at Southern Oregon State College since 1966. For both historical and aesthetic reasons, Lawson Inada is a significant figure in Asian American poetry and literature. He was one of the co-editors of the landmark anthology, Aiiieeeee! An Anthology of Asian-American Writers, and has participated in efforts to recover writing by earlier Japanese American authors such as Toshio Mori and John Okada. Inada’s collection Before the War: Poems as They Happened (1971) was one of the first Asian American single-author volumes of poetry from a major New York publishing house. Inada won the American Book Award in 1994 for Legends from Camp and was named Oregon State Poet of the Year in 1991. He has received a number of poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of "Miracle Fruit" (Tupelo Press), winner of ForeWord Magazine's Poetry Book of the Year Award, the Global Filipino Literary Award, and finalist for the Asian American Literary Award and the Glasgow Prize. She received her MFA at Ohio State University and was the Middlebrook Poetry Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing at UW-Madison. Other awards for her writing include the Boatwright Prize from Shenandoah, The Richard Hugo Prize from Poetry Northwest, an Associated Writing Programs Intro Award in creative non-fiction and several nominations for the Pushcart Prize. She is Assistant Professor of English at State University of New York-Fredonia--right in the heart of cherry and berry country--where she lives with her mini-dachshund, Villanelle. Patrick Rosal is the author of Uprock Headspin Scramble And Dive (Persea Books). His work has been published in many journals and anthologies including North American Review, Columbia, The Literary Review, and The Beacon Best 2001. He has been a featured reader at many venues in and out of NYC, from Boston to Daytona Beach, as well as in London and on the BBC radio’s “World Today.” He is currently Assistant Professor of English at Bloomfield College. Fees & Financial Aid There is a scholarship fund for those who need assistance. Requests for financial aid should be made after acceptance to the retreat. To keep the cost of the retreat low, participants are not charged fees for workshops. Room and Board for the retreat is $300. Application Process Send three (3) copies of five to seven (5-7) paginated, stapled pages of poetry, with your name included on each page. Include a cover letter with your name, address, phone number, e-mail address and a brief paragraph describing what you would like to accomplish at the Kundiman Asian American Poets’ Retreat. Include a SAS postcard if you want an application receipt. Manuscripts will not be returned. No electronic submissions, please. Mail application to: Kundiman 245 Eighth Avenue #151 New York, NY 10011 Submissions must be postmarked by March 1, 2005 |
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