Neil Aitken, Tamiko Beyer, Ching-In Chen, Marilyn Chin, Oliver de la Paz, Vanessa Huang, Janine Joseph, Joseph O. Legaspi, Ngoc Luu, Sally Wen Mao, Noel Pabillo Mariano, Soham Patel, Jai Aru… Read More
This week there are two incredible readings in Berkeley and San Francisco on Sept. 17 & Sept. 19 --- poets include Joseph Legaspi, Oliver De La Paz, Ching-In Chen, Debbie Yee, Margaret R… Read More
This week there are two incredible readings in Berkeley and San Francisco on Sept. 17 & Sept. 19 --- poets include Joseph Legaspi, Oliver De La Paz, Ching-In Chen, Debbie Yee, Margaret R… Read More
Can't wait for this---available for pre-order now, due September 30, 2009 from Bilingual Review Press: Michael Luis Medrano's first collection of poems, Born in the Cavity of Sunsets. This… Read More
Philip Levine Prize in Poetry$2000 prize and publication by Anhinga Press Final Judge: Garrett Hongo Postmark Deadline: 9/30/09 Previous Winners: Shane Seely, Neil Aitken, Lynn Chandhok, Rox… Read More
If you're on the East Coast in November, I will be reading here in New York City on November 8 -- and in Boston on November 10 (time, location TBA). Hope to see you. You can see my fall Ca… Read More
You're a reader, staying up past your bedtime, devouring stories and poems at a time when most Americans no longer read for fun. And you're a particularly uncommon reader--one who believes A… Read More
There's a new novelist you will want to keep your eye on---Sonya Chung, author of Long for This World, due in March 2010 from Scribner. Visit her website and read about the novel (there are… Read More
I was disturbed to read about Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s arrest last week in Cambridge, Masschussetts. At 12:44 p.m. in the afternoon, a woman named Lucia Whalen called the Cambridge Police D… Read More
I've found the title of my second manuscript: Bone Echo. I'm relieved and excited about it. I'd like your feedback, whether it appeals to you or not. I'd thought for several months that th… Read More
$2000 prize and publication by Anhinga Press, Final Judge: Garrett Hongo Postmark Deadline: 9/30/09. Previous Winners: Shane Seely, Neil Aitken, Lynn Chandhok, Roxane Beth Johnson, Steve Ge… Read More
Visit my new blog here.******PRESS RELEASE, from TRACKHistoric step for adoptee rights, adoptees urge full inclusion in adoption law revision processSeoul, July 1, 2009 (TRACK) – Fifty… Read More
I've started a new blog HERE (I posted a draft of another new poem, "Fire," which will stay up until Wednesday). I will be freewriting on my writing process this summer, hopefully making re… Read More
My good friend and best-selling author of Trail of Crumbs, Kim Sunée, will be teaching two workshops in Florida, one from the June 22 to June 26, and the other from June 29 to July 3… Read More
I could not be happier for Ken Chen (pictured, left), who was just named the 2009 recipient of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. His book, Juvenilia, will come out soon, and I can't w… Read More
Now that summer is here, I am hoping my writing picks up a bit. I've also got three somewhat time-consuming things behind me: two Guest Editor stints, one for the Rio Grande Review and one… Read More