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Don’t Miss Event of the Season – Mitch Sisskind to Read at KGB Bar, Monday, May 9, 7:00 PM
Poet, fiction writer, scholar, and BAP blog contributor Mitch Sisskind will make a rare east coast visit to read at KGB Bar on Monday night. Mitch Sisskind is a licenced gemologist from Chicago. He…
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Top Fivers for the Future – APIA Poetry – Kenji C. Liu
For this seventh and final post for APA Heritage Month, I posed a couple of prompts to all the guest bloggers from this past week–Patricia Y. Ikeda, Iris A. Law, Barbara Jane Reyes, Gerald…
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Meet the Press: Nin Andrews interviews Mary Biddinger, editor of the Akron Series in Poetry
NA: I’d like you to tell me a little bit about the Akron Series in Poetry. How many books of poetry does the University of Akron Press print each year? MB: We currently publish…
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Questioning the Book: APIA Poetry and the Politics of Language – Kenji C. Liu
“If my freedom were not in the book, where would it be?If my book were not my freedom, what would it be?Truth cannot but be violent. There is no peaceable truth.[…]The violence of the…
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Light Delights in Life: Two API Poets From the Americas – Gerald Maa
James Baldwin starts off a masterful essay called “A Fly in Buttermilk” by saying, “I found myself, willy-nilly, alchemized into an American the moment I touched French soil.” When approached with this prompt, I…
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Shirley Ancheta: Pinay Poet – Barbara Jane Reyes
I have been an admirer of Watsonville poet Shirley Ancheta for many years. I came to her poems when I was a wee undergrad; she became known to me as one of the formative…
