Deadline: 1 March 2011
From PAWAINC:
Fordham University, Rose Hill · New York City · June 15 - 19, 2011
Submissions must be postmarked between January 15 and March 1, 2011
This project is made possible by lead funding from Fordham University and an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Introduction
In order to help mentor the next generation of Asian American poets, Kundiman is sponsoring an annual Poetry Retreat in parternship with Fordham University. During the Retreat, nationally renowned Asian American poets will conduct workshops with fellows. Readings, writing circles 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 not exceed eight students.
Writing Workshop
A nationally renowned Asian American poet will facilitate each writing workshop. Workshops will consist of writing exercises and group discussions on fellows' poems. At each workshop, fellows will be expected to write and workshop new poems. Fellows will have the opportunity to take a workshop with every Faculty member. In order to help foster relationships between fellows themselves, each fellow 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.
Lincoln Center Reading
Come and hear the new poems. 2011 Faculty and Fellows will read for the public.
Date and Time TBA
Directions
Take A, B, C, D & 1 trains to Columbus Circle. Exit at 60th Street & Broadway. Go west of Columbus Avenue. Upon entering the glass doors inform the security desk that you are attending the Summer Poetry event. Take escalators up 1 floor to Plaza level. Take elevator up to the 11th floor. Take stairs 1 flight up to the 12th Floor. Enter 12th Floor Lounge
Mentoring: Conferring and Connections
Faculty members will schedule one-on-one conferences with participants. Prior to arriving, fellows 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.
Location
The Kundiman Asian American Poetry Retreat is held on Fordham University's beautiful Rose Hill Campus located in the Bronx, NYC.
2011 Faculty
Kimiko Hahn is the author of eight books of poems, including: Earshot (Hanging Loose Press, 1992), which was awarded the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize and an Association of Asian American Studies Literature Award; The Unbearable Heart (Kaya, 1996), which received an American Book Award; The Narrow Road to the Interior (W.W. Norton, 2006); and Toxic Flora, (W.W. Norton, 2010). As part of her service to the CUNY community, she helped initiate a Chapbook Festival that has become an annual event; since then she has published the chapbooks, Ragged Evidence and A Field Guide to the Intractable. Hahn has also written text for film, such as the 1995 MTV special, Ain't Nuthin' But a She-Thing; also, the text for Everywhere at Once, a film based on Peter Lindbergh’s still photos and narrated by Jeanne Moreau. Honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, PEN/Voelcker Award, Shelley Memorial Prize, a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. Aside from teaching for literary organizations such as the Fine Arts Work Center and Cave Canem, she has taught in graduate programs at the University of Houston and New York University, and of course, in the MFA Program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation at Queens College, The City University of New York where she is a distinguished professor.
Karen An-hwei Lee is the author of Ardor (Tupelo Press, 2008), In Medias Res (Sarabande Books, 2004), and a chapbook, God’s One Hundred Promises (Swan Scythe Press, 2002). Her books have been honored by the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America and the Kathryn A. Morton Prize for Poetry. The recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Grant, she chairs the English department at a faith-based college in southern California, where she is also a novice harpist.
Jon Pineda's latest book, Sleep in Me, is a Barnes & Noble "Discover Great New Writers" 2010 Holiday Selection and a Library Journal "Best Books of 2010" Selection. He is the author of the poetry collections The Translator's Diary, winner of the 2007 Green Rose Prize, and Birthmark, winner of the 2003 Crab Orchard Award Series Open Competition. His new work is appearing or forthcoming in Brevity, Copper Nickel, Handsome, and storySouth. He teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Queens University of Charlotte.
For a list of previous faculty members and guest poets, click here.
Fees
Tuition fee is $350. Room and Board is free to accepted Fellows.
Application Process
Send 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 Poetry Retreat. Include a SAS postcard if you want an application receipt. Manuscripts will not be returned. No electronic submissions, please.
Mail application to:
Kundiman
P.O. Box 4248
Sunnyside, NY 11104
Submissions must be postmarked between January 15 and March 1, 2011.
Questions? Please e-mail any questions to info@kundiman.org
More information here.
From PAWAINC:
Fordham University, Rose Hill · New York City · June 15 - 19, 2011
Submissions must be postmarked between January 15 and March 1, 2011
This project is made possible by lead funding from Fordham University and an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Introduction
In order to help mentor the next generation of Asian American poets, Kundiman is sponsoring an annual Poetry Retreat in parternship with Fordham University. During the Retreat, nationally renowned Asian American poets will conduct workshops with fellows. Readings, writing circles 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 not exceed eight students.
Writing Workshop
A nationally renowned Asian American poet will facilitate each writing workshop. Workshops will consist of writing exercises and group discussions on fellows' poems. At each workshop, fellows will be expected to write and workshop new poems. Fellows will have the opportunity to take a workshop with every Faculty member. In order to help foster relationships between fellows themselves, each fellow 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.
Lincoln Center Reading
Come and hear the new poems. 2011 Faculty and Fellows will read for the public.
Date and Time TBA
Directions
Take A, B, C, D & 1 trains to Columbus Circle. Exit at 60th Street & Broadway. Go west of Columbus Avenue. Upon entering the glass doors inform the security desk that you are attending the Summer Poetry event. Take escalators up 1 floor to Plaza level. Take elevator up to the 11th floor. Take stairs 1 flight up to the 12th Floor. Enter 12th Floor Lounge
Mentoring: Conferring and Connections
Faculty members will schedule one-on-one conferences with participants. Prior to arriving, fellows 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.
Location
The Kundiman Asian American Poetry Retreat is held on Fordham University's beautiful Rose Hill Campus located in the Bronx, NYC.
2011 Faculty
Kimiko Hahn is the author of eight books of poems, including: Earshot (Hanging Loose Press, 1992), which was awarded the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize and an Association of Asian American Studies Literature Award; The Unbearable Heart (Kaya, 1996), which received an American Book Award; The Narrow Road to the Interior (W.W. Norton, 2006); and Toxic Flora, (W.W. Norton, 2010). As part of her service to the CUNY community, she helped initiate a Chapbook Festival that has become an annual event; since then she has published the chapbooks, Ragged Evidence and A Field Guide to the Intractable. Hahn has also written text for film, such as the 1995 MTV special, Ain't Nuthin' But a She-Thing; also, the text for Everywhere at Once, a film based on Peter Lindbergh’s still photos and narrated by Jeanne Moreau. Honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, PEN/Voelcker Award, Shelley Memorial Prize, a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. Aside from teaching for literary organizations such as the Fine Arts Work Center and Cave Canem, she has taught in graduate programs at the University of Houston and New York University, and of course, in the MFA Program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation at Queens College, The City University of New York where she is a distinguished professor.
Karen An-hwei Lee is the author of Ardor (Tupelo Press, 2008), In Medias Res (Sarabande Books, 2004), and a chapbook, God’s One Hundred Promises (Swan Scythe Press, 2002). Her books have been honored by the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America and the Kathryn A. Morton Prize for Poetry. The recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Grant, she chairs the English department at a faith-based college in southern California, where she is also a novice harpist.
Jon Pineda's latest book, Sleep in Me, is a Barnes & Noble "Discover Great New Writers" 2010 Holiday Selection and a Library Journal "Best Books of 2010" Selection. He is the author of the poetry collections The Translator's Diary, winner of the 2007 Green Rose Prize, and Birthmark, winner of the 2003 Crab Orchard Award Series Open Competition. His new work is appearing or forthcoming in Brevity, Copper Nickel, Handsome, and storySouth. He teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Queens University of Charlotte.
For a list of previous faculty members and guest poets, click here.
Fees
Tuition fee is $350. Room and Board is free to accepted Fellows.
Application Process
Send 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 Poetry Retreat. Include a SAS postcard if you want an application receipt. Manuscripts will not be returned. No electronic submissions, please.
Mail application to:
Kundiman
P.O. Box 4248
Sunnyside, NY 11104
Submissions must be postmarked between January 15 and March 1, 2011.
Questions? Please e-mail any questions to info@kundiman.org
More information here.
