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		<title>Reading Update: Filipinos in the East Bay</title>
		<link>http://bjanepr.wordpress.com/2008/07/06/reading-update-filipinos-in-the-east-bay/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 02:55:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Jane Reyes</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Evangeline Canonizado Buell]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Filipinos in the East Bay by Evangeline Canonizado Buell, Evelyn Luluquisen, Eleanor Hipol Luis
Wow! This book is so amazing! We just picked it up today at Books Inc. in Alameda. It&#8217;s bittersweet to see some faces of community folks who&#8217;ve since passed away, namely Helen Toribio and Ray Gatchalian.
My only criticism is that no one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reading Update: Lawrence Ferlinghetti&#8217;s Pictures of the Gone World</title>
		<link>http://bjanepr.wordpress.com/2008/07/05/reading-update-lawrence-ferlinghettis-pictures-of-the-gone-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 19:52:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Jane Reyes</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ Pictures of the Gone World by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
What I quickly want to say about this collection is that I am not sure where or what is my way in. I feel like maybe what Ferlinghetti is doing is elegizing a &#8220;gone world&#8221; which we see in an unacknowledged Dante sculpture amid a bustling city, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reading Update: Mat Johnson&#8217;s Incognegro</title>
		<link>http://bjanepr.wordpress.com/2008/07/04/reading-update-mat-johnsons-incognegro/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:09:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Jane Reyes</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Incognegro by Mat Johnson
 
I really liked this graphic novel. I think that Warren Pleece&#8217;s black and white line art is effective, and this is very important, given that the whole basis for this story is whether or not characters can visually (and behaviorally) hoodwink others into believing they are what they are not.
You get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I got a new chapbook manuscript</title>
		<link>http://bjanepr.wordpress.com/2008/07/03/i-got-a-new-chapbook-manuscript/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:10:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Jane Reyes</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;anyone wanna publish it?
Seriously, I dig chapbook. I love that the unit is very manageable and undaunting for me, in terms of thinking up a project, and writing it through to some end without the same exhaustion that I&#8217;ve experienced writing full length book projects. As well, I love that production timelines on chapbooks bring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poem Draft: West Oakland Sutra for the AK-47 Shooter at 3:00 AM</title>
		<link>http://bjanepr.wordpress.com/2008/07/01/poem-draft-west-oakland-sutra-for-the-ak-47-at-300-am/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:20:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Jane Reyes</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[poems]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Contributing to my current poetry writing roll, Oscar&#8217;s sent me a poem to riff off, and with the help of the Department of the Army&#8217;s Operator&#8217;s Manual for the AK-47 Assault Rifle, here is what I got so far:
[minor edits v3.0]
West Oakland Sutra for the AK-47 Shooter at 3:00 AM
After “Blue Light Lounge Sutra For [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poem Draft: We, Spoken Here</title>
		<link>http://bjanepr.wordpress.com/2008/06/30/poem-draft-we-spoken-here/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:09:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Jane Reyes</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Antonio Taguba]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is the last of my &#8220;We, Spoken Here&#8221; poems (for now). I switched the &#8220;we&#8221; and &#8220;they&#8221; in this poem. I think the way it was previously (originally) I was really very uncomfortable with, claiming the &#8220;we&#8221; as Iraqi war prisoner, when we (hence, &#8220;we&#8221;) are clearly the Americans in this power dynamic. FYI [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poem Draft: Downtown Oakland Lullaby</title>
		<link>http://bjanepr.wordpress.com/2008/06/29/poem-draft-downtown-oakland-lullaby/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:57:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Jane Reyes</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[14th &#38; Broadway Lullaby, Oakland
After Anne Waldman’s “&#38; Sleep, the Lazy Owl of Night”

&#38; sleep, the Cleavage Lady of Night

&#38; sleep will make you whole

&#38; sleep, the B-Boys of the Corner

&#38; sleep will make you bold

&#38; sleep, the Poets in the Skids

&#38; sleep will make you still

&#38; sleep, my City, sleep deep

&#38; sleep will give [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poem Draft: West Oakland Litany</title>
		<link>http://bjanepr.wordpress.com/2008/06/27/poem-draft-west-oakland-litany/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:05:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Jane Reyes</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[West Oakland Litany
After “Litany” by Billy Collins 

You are the hole in my head
I am the pain in your neck
You are the lump in my throat
I am the aching in your heart
—John Doe, “Golden State”

You are the weeds and the front yard,
the amber bottle and the malt liquor.
You are the gum on the new asphalt
and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reading Update: U Sam Oeur&#8217;s Sacred Vows</title>
		<link>http://bjanepr.wordpress.com/2008/06/27/reading-update-u-sam-oeurs-sacred-vows/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:38:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Jane Reyes</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ Sacred Vows by U Sam Oeur

This is a pretty hard read so far, given its subject matter of surviving the genocide of the Khmer Rouge. My basis for comparison is Sarith Peou&#8217;s Corpse Watching (Tinfish Press), and his unabashed depictions of horror from beginning to end with little to no reprieve. In U Sam [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Film Post #2: On Marilou Diaz-Abaya&#8217;s Jose Rizal</title>
		<link>http://bjanepr.wordpress.com/2008/06/26/film-post-2-on-marilou-diaz-abayas-jose-rizal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:56:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Jane Reyes</dc:creator>
		
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Here is the firing squad execution scene. No surprises on the film&#8217;s ending. I will say that getting to the execution, post faux trial is well paced and wonderfully wrought.
OK. Back to my original question of who Marilou Diaz-Abaya envisioned as a target audience for Jose Rizal. DVD extras tell us this film&#8217;s budget was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poem Draft: No, I Am Not Yours</title>
		<link>http://bjanepr.wordpress.com/2008/06/25/poem-draft-no-i-am-not-yours/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Jane Reyes</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[[I am actually thinking that "No, I am not" might be more effective as "No, we are not." But not sure about this. What do you folks think?]
No, I am not Yours
After Bob Kaufman’s “I, Too, Know What I am Not”	

No, I am not Vaseline smile of working girls, singing
	through gritted teeth.
No, I am not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Film: Marilou Diaz-Abaya&#8217;s Jose Rizal</title>
		<link>http://bjanepr.wordpress.com/2008/06/24/film-marilou-diaz-abayas-jose-rizal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:47:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Jane Reyes</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[File this under Why Am I Only Watching This Now? We started watching Marilou Diaz-Abaya&#8217;s Jose Rizal (1998) yesterday evening. We didn&#8217;t finish it yesterday evening because the film is nearly three hours long.
I&#8217;ve come across Philippines based Francis Cruz&#8217;s review of Jose Rizal, and it helps with some of the things I am thinking. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poem Draft: West Oakland Invocation</title>
		<link>http://bjanepr.wordpress.com/2008/06/23/poem-draft-west-oakland-invocation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:25:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Jane Reyes</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Juan Felipe Herrera]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[West Oakland Invocation
After Juan Felipe Herrera’s “Blood Gang Call”

Calling all scrap metal pickers,
	the ones wearing leaden paint instead of blue jeans
Calling all watermelon &#38; cherry vendors,
	come down the avenue to this traffic light
Calling all asbestos ceiling scrapers,
	you, yes, you the ones with your faces like bandits
Calling all barbwire twisters
	caught in the tetanus spell of puncture [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Diwata Wordle</title>
		<link>http://bjanepr.wordpress.com/2008/06/23/diwata-wordle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Jane Reyes</dc:creator>
		
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wordle - diwata, originally uploaded by bjanepr.
As per Wordle, my most commonly used words in Diwata: woman, know, words, eyes, body, hands, tell, say&#8230;

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		<title>Disappointing: Cody&#8217;s Books</title>
		<link>http://bjanepr.wordpress.com/2008/06/22/disappointing-codys-books/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 01:39:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Jane Reyes</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Bay Area]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Unbelievable. 
Cody&#8217;s Books, which had opened briefly then closed its downtown SF store, which had just recently closed its 4th Street store in Berkeley, and had opened its new store on Shattuck Avenue in Downtown Berkeley, on the BART line, by the university, has just closed its Shattuck Avenue store.
Unbelievable.
I don&#8217;t know. I kind of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>West Oakland Sky</title>
		<link>http://bjanepr.wordpress.com/2008/06/21/west-oakland-sky/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 22:37:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Jane Reyes</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning, Oscar and I walked down Adeline Street to deFremery Park, around and behind its tennis courts, down 18th Street to Mandela Parkway, back up 28th Street, where the business of scrap metal was in effect and bustling. 90 degrees in the shade, desert hot. Vendors selling cubed watermelon and canned Philippine mango nectar. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poem Draft: My California</title>
		<link>http://bjanepr.wordpress.com/2008/06/19/poem-draft-my-california/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:46:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Jane Reyes</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[[Edited version below 06.21.2008. Happy Solstice.]
As inspired by Lee Herrick&#8217;s &#8220;My California,&#8221; forthcoming in ZYZZYVA:
My California
 After Lee Herrick’s “My California”
&#8220;Let me serenade the streets of L.A.
From Oakland to Sacktown
The Bay Area and back down&#8230;&#8221;
— 2PAC, &#8220;California Love,&#8221; featuring Dr. Dre
In my California, we wild, wild west. We Gold Rush fabulous. We Watsonville carabao. We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Half of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems by Juan Felipe Herrera!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Jane Reyes</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey all, I&#8217;ve just received this press release from Juan Felipe Herrera:
Contact: Holly Schaffer, Publicity Manager
520-621-3920, hollys@uapress.arizona.edu
For Immediate Release
The University of Arizona Press, founded in 1959, is a nonprofit publisher of about fifty books each year, with over 800 books in print. Publications include scholarly and trade titles in Native American and Latina/o studies, anthropology, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back from New York and a Partial Inventory of Food</title>
		<link>http://bjanepr.wordpress.com/2008/06/17/back-from-new-york-and-a-partial-inventory-of-food/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 23:06:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Jane Reyes</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[After enduring a canceled flight, an entire JFK airport ground stop, and our longest flight delay ever (seven hours in an airport terminal), we are home and I don&#8217;t know how Oscar managed to get himself to work. Last I checked, we got home at six o&#8217;clock this morning.
Not here to dwell though.
We flew into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poem Draft: An anthem for West Oakland</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:21:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Jane Reyes</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Just working out some lines.
I sing an anthem of Dogtown to West Grand Ave., for freeways splitting the neighborhood’s sides. I sing for liquor stores, I sing for the taco truck. I sing for the fruit stand man.
I sing for Adeline Street tenement electrical fires, for boarded up windows and charred roofless homes. I sing [...]]]></description>
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