Monday, April 26, 2010
INTN 4043, Ethnic Studies Conference Room, UC Riverside
Riverside, CA
Inspired by the examples of other queer women of color who were writing collectively, Ching-In Chen & Tamiko Beyer’s collaboration is an attempt to practice a decolonial poetics. We began by reading/thinking about the work of certain poetic ancestors, including Larissa Lai, Rita Wong, Cathy Park Hong, Eric Gamalinda, Haas Mroue, Judy Tzu-Chun Wu writing about the physician Margaret Chung, Kristin Naca, Pepón Osorio, Romel Joseph & June Jordan, writing two different poem-strands by exchanging work via e-mail and then using a collaborative revising process where we wove our words together.
Ching-In Chen is an MFA student in the Creative Writing program at UC Riverside and the author of The Heart’s Traffic. Tamiko Beyer is the poetry editor of Drunken Boat. They are both Kundiman Fellows. a Panida Lorlertratna is a third-year graduate student in Comparative Literature, who still believes in close reading. She's working on her dissertation, which is about travel accounts of Thomas Forrest, an 18th-century English navigator in the East Indies.
INTN 4043, Ethnic Studies Conference Room, UC Riverside
Riverside, CA
Inspired by the examples of other queer women of color who were writing collectively, Ching-In Chen & Tamiko Beyer’s collaboration is an attempt to practice a decolonial poetics. We began by reading/thinking about the work of certain poetic ancestors, including Larissa Lai, Rita Wong, Cathy Park Hong, Eric Gamalinda, Haas Mroue, Judy Tzu-Chun Wu writing about the physician Margaret Chung, Kristin Naca, Pepón Osorio, Romel Joseph & June Jordan, writing two different poem-strands by exchanging work via e-mail and then using a collaborative revising process where we wove our words together.
Ching-In Chen is an MFA student in the Creative Writing program at UC Riverside and the author of The Heart’s Traffic. Tamiko Beyer is the poetry editor of Drunken Boat. They are both Kundiman Fellows. a Panida Lorlertratna is a third-year graduate student in Comparative Literature, who still believes in close reading. She's working on her dissertation, which is about travel accounts of Thomas Forrest, an 18th-century English navigator in the East Indies.
