Date: Sunday, March 6 · 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Location: Verlaine 110 Rivington St. (b/w Ludlow & Essex), LES
Kundiman & Verlaine present a night of poetry & libation with Luis Francia, Cynthia Arrieu-King & Rajiv Mohabir
...Open Bar, 4 - 5 pm
$5 suggested donation
The Kundiman & Verlaine reading series is back! This'll definitely thaw out the snow and drive away your winter blues. Come to the first gathering of the 2011 series & be part of a fun, good-lookin' crowd & partake on potent words & libation! Feel free to bring your loved ones, and help us spread the word! Take care.
Readers' Bios:
Luis Francia is the author of the just released chapbook, The Beauty of Ghosts. His Eye of the Fish: A Personal Archipelago won both the 2002 PEN Center Open Book and the 2002 Asian American Writers literary awards. His other poetry collections include Museum of Absences, and The Arctic Archipelago and Other Poems. He is also the author of A History of the Philippines: From Indios Bravos to Filipinos, published last year. He writes a column for Manila’s Philippine Daily Inquirer and teaches creative writing at the City University of Hong Kong, literature at Hunter College, and Tagalog Language and Culture at New York University.
Cynthia Arrieu-King is an assistant professor of creative writing at Stockton College and was a Kundiman fellow in 2006. Her book People are Tiny in Paintings of China was published this past fall by Octopus Books. Her poems and reviews have appeared or will appear in the Denver Quarterly, Jacket, Boston Review, Black Warrior Review and Witness. She lives near Atlantic City.
Rajiv Mohabir is the author of the chapbooks na bad-eye me (Pudding House Press) and na mash me bone (Finishing Line Press). Published in various journals, he was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2010. Rajiv is an editor for the Ozone Park Journal run by the MFA students at Queens College. In his spare time, Rajiv enjoys making short films, photography, ghost stories, traveling, and talking about humpback whales.
MISSION STATEMENT
Kundiman is dedicated to the creation, cultivation and promotion of Asian American poetry.
More information here.
Location: Verlaine 110 Rivington St. (b/w Ludlow & Essex), LES
Kundiman & Verlaine present a night of poetry & libation with Luis Francia, Cynthia Arrieu-King & Rajiv Mohabir
...Open Bar, 4 - 5 pm
$5 suggested donation
The Kundiman & Verlaine reading series is back! This'll definitely thaw out the snow and drive away your winter blues. Come to the first gathering of the 2011 series & be part of a fun, good-lookin' crowd & partake on potent words & libation! Feel free to bring your loved ones, and help us spread the word! Take care.
Readers' Bios:
Luis Francia is the author of the just released chapbook, The Beauty of Ghosts. His Eye of the Fish: A Personal Archipelago won both the 2002 PEN Center Open Book and the 2002 Asian American Writers literary awards. His other poetry collections include Museum of Absences, and The Arctic Archipelago and Other Poems. He is also the author of A History of the Philippines: From Indios Bravos to Filipinos, published last year. He writes a column for Manila’s Philippine Daily Inquirer and teaches creative writing at the City University of Hong Kong, literature at Hunter College, and Tagalog Language and Culture at New York University.
Cynthia Arrieu-King is an assistant professor of creative writing at Stockton College and was a Kundiman fellow in 2006. Her book People are Tiny in Paintings of China was published this past fall by Octopus Books. Her poems and reviews have appeared or will appear in the Denver Quarterly, Jacket, Boston Review, Black Warrior Review and Witness. She lives near Atlantic City.
Rajiv Mohabir is the author of the chapbooks na bad-eye me (Pudding House Press) and na mash me bone (Finishing Line Press). Published in various journals, he was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2010. Rajiv is an editor for the Ozone Park Journal run by the MFA students at Queens College. In his spare time, Rajiv enjoys making short films, photography, ghost stories, traveling, and talking about humpback whales.
MISSION STATEMENT
Kundiman is dedicated to the creation, cultivation and promotion of Asian American poetry.
More information here.
