Spring 2010: Syllabus Woe

First thing: My class is in danger of being canceled due to low enrollment. This is a little disheartening. Still, I am pressing ahead with my syllabus for Filipino American Arts, in which we will be reading, viewing, analyzing, discussing Filipino Art as it addresses different periods of Filipino and Filipino American history, as well as current issues. This class is challenging to put together because it is multidisciplinary. Moreover, it’s lecture, discussion, and studio/workshop.

Whereas the course I am teaching now is also multidisciplinary, this is true mainly for the material I teach. As for what I assign, that is all writing, albeit multigenre, and more loosely based in discussions of culture. As well, my current course is hardly “academic,” in terms of reading and discussing critical writing about the creative work.

I am loving having access to Project MUSE, and I believe I have access to JSTOR as well, though I haven’t figured out yet how to remote access the latter.

Poetry Community Questions All Over the Map

Something Susan Schultz wrote in her response to my indie publishing questions has me thinking.

My frustration at the moment comes of the fact that no publisher can demand her customers read the press as well as its authors. So the conversations we mean to get going are sometimes overlooked when people buy only work by Pacific writers, or Buddhist writers, or Asian American writers or Bay Area writers (for example). But the publisher may have died (Roland Barthes style) with her authors.

PAWA Arkipelago Reading Series 11/07/09

Please join us for the next reading in the PAWA Arkipelago Reading Series

Where: The Bayanihan Center 1010 Mission Street @ 6th Street, San Francisco

When: Saturday, November 7, 2009 at 2:00 pm

Who: Writers Justin Chin, Sarah Gambito, and Marianne Vilanueva. Musical guests Myrna del Río and Bo Razon.

This event is free and open to the public!