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		<title>Magical Realism &#8211; Mythopoetry &#8211; Speculative Fiction</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:56:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Jane Reyes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day, a young Pinay writer emailed, to ask some questions about magical realism, how I define it, which communities of writers write it, what are some books falling under this category. While the question kind of came out of nowhere, coincidentally, I&#8217;d been thinking about issues tangential to or intersecting with magical realism.
I&#8217;ve [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bjanepr.wordpress.com&blog=2502502&post=6095&subd=bjanepr&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching Poetic Form in Philippine Studies</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:41:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Jane Reyes</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am on a search for some English material on the balagtasan. As I have previously blogged, I gave a cursory introduction to my students a couple of weeks back. What few specific things I know of balagtasan come from the transcript of a lecture given by Virgilio Almario at the Center for Southeast Asian [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bjanepr.wordpress.com&blog=2502502&post=6085&subd=bjanepr&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Save the Date: 12/06/09 PAWA Achiote Press Emerging Writers Panel @ SFPL</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Jane Reyes</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Achiote Press]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Claire Light]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Craig Santos Perez]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rashaan Alexis Meneses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vanessa Huang]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vickie Vertiz]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Craig Santos Perez has drawn up a flier (below) for our upcoming emerging writers panel at SFPL. I blogged about this a while back (read original post, which is really part of an ongoing series regarding the MFA Industrial Complex), that information and guidance about writing programs should be free and accessible to emerging writers [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bjanepr.wordpress.com&blog=2502502&post=6073&subd=bjanepr&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Literature and San Francisco: More Thoughts on Being Filipino Here  and not There</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:58:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Jane Reyes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; where ever &#8220;there&#8221; may be (and here, I don&#8217;t mean Oakland, which because of Gertrude Stein, is known as &#8220;there.&#8221;). For the purposes of this here blog post, &#8220;there&#8221; means not the West Coast.
When Luis Francia came to town last month, one thing he marveled about was the deep sense of history our local [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bjanepr.wordpress.com&blog=2502502&post=6049&subd=bjanepr&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>11/10/09 Panel at the Urban Center (SF)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:16:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Jane Reyes</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[poetry readings literary events]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I need to prepare a presentation for tomorrow evening&#8217;s Young Urbanists [Literature] panel. Some guiding questions, as per our moderator, Matthew Zapruder:
• In the introduction to his anthology Writing Los Angeles, editor David Ulin writes &#8220;The story of Los Angeles has always been, on the most basic level, the story of the interaction between civilization [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bjanepr.wordpress.com&blog=2502502&post=6043&subd=bjanepr&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Poetry Foundation: Indie Publishing: Two Questions, Many More Answers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:10:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Jane Reyes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My 19th post is up on the Poetry Foundation blog. Yes, more responses from independent publishers, as well as some links to ongoing discussions elsewhere in poet e-world.
Many thanks to Brent E. Beltrán and Consuelo Manríquez de Beltrán of Calaca Press, Patrick Durgin of Kenning Editions, and Willie Perdomo of Cypher Books for answering my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bjanepr.wordpress.com&blog=2502502&post=6040&subd=bjanepr&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More on Indie Publishing and Poetry Community</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:05:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Jane Reyes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am currently working on my next Poetry Foundation post, which I think will conclude my series of posts on independent publishing. I am pretty much done with what I mean to write, and am just waiting now, on one or two independent publishers to respond to my two questions.
Actually, if you are reading this, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bjanepr.wordpress.com&blog=2502502&post=6028&subd=bjanepr&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Poetry Community Questions All Over the Map</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:10:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Jane Reyes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bjanepr.wordpress.com&blog=2502502&post=6022&subd=bjanepr&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Third Factory: My Attention Span</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Jane Reyes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Steve Evans of Third Factory for including me in this year&#8217;s Attention Span.
Below is my list that I submitted a few weeks (months?) ago, of work currently on my radar, in my head, and/or on my reading list (if you read my blog, you already know this):
Suheir Hammad &#124; breaking poems &#124; Cypher [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bjanepr.wordpress.com&blog=2502502&post=6019&subd=bjanepr&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Poetry Foundation: Indie Publishing: Two Questions and More Answers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:20:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Jane Reyes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My 18th post, Indie Publishing: Two Questions and More Answers, is up at the Poetry Foundation blog. This is a continuation of my previous indie publishing post, in which I asked the questions, &#8220;Why did you start your small press/why did you become an independent publisher? What need was not being met by the existing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bjanepr.wordpress.com&blog=2502502&post=6016&subd=bjanepr&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SPUR Young Urbanists: [Literature] in the city (SF) 11/10/09</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Jane Reyes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[YOUNG URBANISTS 
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 6:00pm
[Literature] in the city
From the Beat movement and City Lights to McSweeney’s, San Francisco has been shaped by its literary history. But this history does not simply lie in the texts produced by the writers—it was also a history produced in the city’s fabric, in literary movements that defined [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bjanepr.wordpress.com&blog=2502502&post=6014&subd=bjanepr&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Poetry Foundation: Indie Publishing: Two Questions and Several Answers</title>
		<link>http://bjanepr.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/poetry-foundation-indie-publishing-two-questions-and-several-answers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:11:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Jane Reyes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My 17th post, Indie Publishing: Two Questions and Several Answers, is up on the Poetry Foundation blog. For this post, I&#8217;ve asked Eileen Tabios, Francisco Aragón, Reb Livingston, and Rusty Morrison the following questions: Why did you start your small press/why did you become an independent publisher? What need was not being met by the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bjanepr.wordpress.com&blog=2502502&post=6008&subd=bjanepr&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PAWA Arkipelago Reading Series 11/07/09</title>
		<link>http://bjanepr.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/pawa-arkipelago-reading-series-110709/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:58:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Jane Reyes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asian American Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bay Area]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bo Razon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Justin Chin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marianne Vilanueva]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Myrna del Río]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sarah Gambito]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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!
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		<title>Literary Terms: Rachel McKibbens&#8217;s &#8216;Pink Elephant&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://bjanepr.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/literary-terms-rachel-mckibbenss-pink-elephant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 15:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Jane Reyes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Something of a fruitful discussion is going on over at the Poetry Foundation blog, in response to my Rachel McKibbens post. It isn&#8217;t directly regarding her work, since as the commenters go, I seem to be the only who has read her book (it&#8217;s barely been released, and her book launch is next week), and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bjanepr.wordpress.com&blog=2502502&post=5981&subd=bjanepr&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Work Post: Talking about Writing and Literary Community</title>
		<link>http://bjanepr.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/work-post-talking-about-writing-and-literary-community/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:35:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Jane Reyes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Some edits below.]
If you have a look at my Events page, you may notice I am scheduled to speak in a few places on writing, being a writer, and being a member of writing communities. So this means, more gigs about the writing life and work rather than gigs in which I get to actually [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bjanepr.wordpress.com&blog=2502502&post=5951&subd=bjanepr&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Work: Proud Professor Post</title>
		<link>http://bjanepr.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/work-proud-professor-post/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:27:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Jane Reyes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Filipino]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes it&#8217;s true. I am especially proud of my students today. They submitted their writing portfolios, containing new and revised work. Some very creative presentations. Before this however, a few of them were brave enough to read and perform their work for the class. In an effort to be culturally relevant, as I am teaching [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bjanepr.wordpress.com&blog=2502502&post=5946&subd=bjanepr&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Poetry Foundation: Rachel McKibbens</title>
		<link>http://bjanepr.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/poetry-foundation-rachel-mckibbens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:27:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Jane Reyes</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Poetry Foundation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rachel McKibbens]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My 16th post, Rachel McKibbens, Pink Elephant (Cypher Books, 2009), is up at the Poetry Foundation blog. Here is an excerpt:
Rachel McKibbens’s lovely and serrated debut collection, Pink Elephant (Cypher Books), reminds us why poetry as testimony is so necessary. Ex-punk rock chola and mother of five, 2009 Women’s Individual World Poetry Slam champion Rachel [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bjanepr.wordpress.com&blog=2502502&post=5940&subd=bjanepr&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Conversation/Comments</title>
		<link>http://bjanepr.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/conversationcomments/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:31:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Jane Reyes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetic Industrial Complex]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[publishing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Some good comments coming in to this here blog, and so I thought I&#8217;d call your attention to them.
In response to my recent post, &#8220;In the Meantime, the Poetic Industrial Complex and Filipino American Authors,&#8221;here is my exchange with Gladys:
Gladys: &#8230; i love your term “colonial mentality hiya.” there’s hiya, and then there’s the “colonial [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bjanepr.wordpress.com&blog=2502502&post=5934&subd=bjanepr&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Call for Submissions: Kartika Review</title>
		<link>http://bjanepr.wordpress.com/2009/10/18/call-for-submissions-kartika-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 01:38:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Jane Reyes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asian American Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kartika Review]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Kartika Review is accepting submissions for upcoming issues of our online Asian American literary magazine.
We accept: fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction (memoir, reportage, essays, letters), poetry and visual art by Asian American artists.
We are a quarterly journal We read submissions all year. Simultaneous submission are okay, but please notify us immediately if your work has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bjanepr.wordpress.com&blog=2502502&post=5932&subd=bjanepr&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Work Post: Spring 2010 at USF</title>
		<link>http://bjanepr.wordpress.com/2009/10/17/work-post-spring-2010-at-usf/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 17:45:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Jane Reyes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Filipino]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looks like I&#8217;ll be adjuncting at USF again this coming Spring 2010. I will be teaching the Filipino American Arts course, which I am looking forward to. I need to make sure there is no overlap with the Barrio Fiesta course, which I have been teaching as a multi-genre ekphrastic writing course. For my Arts [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bjanepr.wordpress.com&blog=2502502&post=5925&subd=bjanepr&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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