Kundiman

What is food without the story of its making? To love a dish is to love the labor that brought it to your table. Pleasure and Politics: Food on the Page is a food writing craft class with Ligaya Mishan, 6/5, 2:005:00 PM ET. Sign up now: http://kundiman.org/online-classes

My Chiropractor Gives Me a Name / for what’s the matter: the white / stack of vertebrae curving in / reverse in my neck Janine Joseph with a beautiful, sloping poem in The Rumpus for National Poetry Month!

Of an animal, especially a bird. A wandering species whom no seas nor places limit. A seed who survives despite the depths of hard winter. @tiananob, /mrnt/, from her debut collection CLEAVE, featured in @Poetry_Daily!

New Online Classes, National Poetry Month, and the Feminist Workshop Reading! - https://mailchi.mp//please-circulate-widely-now-accepting-

We are so excited to announce our June classes with Ligaya Mishan, Eddie Kim, and Muriel Leung, starting 6/3! Open to either Asian American writers or writers of color. Scholarships available! Sign up here: kundiman.org/online-classes

Just a few days left to submit to KSP’s QTBIPOC Prize

Love to see Tiana Nobile's CLEAVE and Tamiko Beyer's Last Days here in this list of new and forthcoming poetry collections selected by the lovely editors at The Rumpus Happy National Poetry Month, everyone!

It’s the closest thing to a cave. I have to resist the wild urge to carve a name or a word in it. Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Ode to Sitting in a Booth in Poem-a-Day!

For National Poetry Month, here are ten books by Asian American poets. Contemporary Asian American poetry is boundless and beautifullet’s celebrate it, not only this month, but forever.

Join Feminism & Queer Politics in Poetry, an 8-week poetry workshop with Margaret Rhee! From Lorde & Rich to Cha & Anzaldùa, writers will read feminist poets & write their own work. Saturdays 4/35/22, 123:00 PM ET. Open to Asian American writers. http://kundiman.org/online-classes

In the spirit of community, let’s come together a week from now for our 2020 Mentorship Lab Fellows and mentors, who will be reading at Books Are Magic on 1/27! https://www.kundiman.org/announ/2020-mentorship-lab-reading

Today’s the day! Apps for our 2021 Mentorship Lab with mentors Larissa Pham, Raj Parameswaran, and Arhm Wild Choi are due. Join us for a $1000 stipend and six months of mentorship, craft classes, and workshops! We’re looking forward to reading your applications! kundiman.org/mentorship-lab

Diana Khoi Nguyen is teaching Resistance: Writing About or Against Aggressions, a poetry craft on Friday, 4/23 4:007:00 PM ET. Join your fellow writers in dialogue and collaboration! Scholarship deadline: 4/8. http://kundiman.org/online-classes

I wish I could tell someone the truth: that I fear / I am the kind of woman who could leave the one good family / God had the gall to give her Eugenia Leigh, "How the Dung Beetle Finds Its Way Home," a luminous poem in the latest issue of Ploughshares! https://twitter.com/EugeniaLeigh/status/1349513838492872709

This is the final week of our #postcardproject with the #poetrycoalition! Thank you so much to everyone who participated in this community projectit's been lovely to see everyone's #postcardpoems and drawings. Here is a postcard from Suman Chhabra! We'll be creating an archive of the project on the Kundiman website in the next few weeks. Please send any photos to [email protected]!

What happens if we treat a line as a unit of measurement like a shot? A stanza like a scene? Sign up for Jessica Abughattas' poetry craft class Cut to: Cinematographic Techniques in Poetry & Nailing the Image! Sunday, 4/11 3:006:00 PM ET. http://kundiman.org/online-classes

Just two weeks until our Mentorship Lab Reading at Books Are Magic! We're so excited to celebrate our wonderful Mentors and Fellows alike. https://www.kundiman.org/announ/2020-mentorship-lab-reading

Losing something is just revising it. After this love there will be more love. @HalaNAlyan, Object Permanence, a bright and gorgeous poem, steeped in memory.... https://poets.org/poem/object-permanence

Attention genre-benders and flash fiction enthusiasts! K-Ming Chang is teaching a craft class, Flash Fiction with K-Ming Chang, on Sunday, 4/18 from 2-5:00PM ET. Open to all writers of color. Scholarships deadline: 4/1. http://kundiman.org/online-classes

Our 2020 Mentorship Lab Mentors built lasting relationships with our Fellows this past year. Join us at Books Are Magic on 1/27 for a reading and celebration of our wonderful writers! https://www.kundiman.org/announ/2020-mentorship-lab-reading

How can writing rectify the record & reclaim injustice? Diana Khoi Nguyen is teaching Resistance: Writing About or Against Aggressions, a poetry craft on Friday, 4/23 4:007:00 PM ET. Scholarship deadline: 4/8! http://kundiman.org/online-classes

Apply by the end of TODAY to Jessica Abughattas' poetry craft class Cut to: Cinematographic Techniques in Poetry & Nailing the Image if you are interested in a scholarship! Sunday, 4/11 3:006:00 PM ET. http://kundiman.org/online-classes