Rasquache: A Collective For Writing of Difference

07/24/2012

To all of you who have joined our page recently, welcome. We're pretty much aestivating until the school year begins again, but how about some summer reading?

Indias cultural commissars worship "Indianness" instead of art. Vikram ChandraTwo years ago, Sunil Khilnani, Ardeshir Vakil, and I did a reading at the British Council in New Delhi. As we trooped up onto the stage, I scanned the hall, trying to get a sense of the chemistry of the room, a f…

05/24/2012

* Previous posts in this series: Kenji C. Liu - Craig Santos Perez - Ching-In Chen - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha A funny thing happened to me today. I walked into a nearly empty café and stood in line behind a...

03/25/2012

The NY Times began the new year with a piece about the Hmong American Writers’ Circle and the cultural context in which it operates. And our most recent issue of the Lantern Review put a spotlight on HAWC in Community Voices. This is only the beginning of much-deserved attention for this unique gene...

03/01/2012

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey talks about why she writes poetry in this Emory University Distinguished Faculty Lecture held on February 3, 20...

02/17/2012

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02/15/2012

“Kundiman has been a boundless resource for me as a teacher of Creative Writing and as a lecturer in a rigorous undergraduate writing program. I have been able to harvest countless suggestions for relevant texts to use with my own classes. I have also been blessed with the opportunity to witness ski...

10/20/2011

Don't forget: The MFA program sponsors Frank Bergon, author of Jesse’s GhostFriday, October 21 at 7:00 p.m. in the Alice Peters Auditorium, Peters Business Building. And before that? Why not stop by the Fourth Hour?

10/20/2011

if you can, please come out to support us tomorrow:

The Hmong American Writers' Circle (HAWC) proudly presents:

The official release of
HOW DO I BEGIN? A HMONG AMERICAN LITERARY ANTHOLOGY

Join us for our community launch event!

FREE ADMISSION
Friday, October 21, 2011
Tower Theatre in Fresno
7:00-9:00pm

Doors open at 6:30pm
Reception and book signing to follow from 9:00-10:00pm
Books will be available for purchase

Opening remarks by local writer and farmer David Mas Masumoto
Featuring readings by the Hmong American Writers' Circle

Download the flyer here: http://www.hmongwriters.org/HAWC-Poster.jpg

Info:
Andre Yang
559.942.8335
[email protected]
http://www.hmongwriters.org/

10/18/2011

The Hmong American Writers' Circle (HAWC) proudly presents:

The official release of
HOW DO I BEGIN? A HMONG AMERICAN LITERARY ANTHOLOGY

Join us for our community launch event!

FREE ADMISSION
Friday, October 21, 2011
Tower Theatre in Fresno
7:00-9:00pm

Doors open at 6:30pm
Reception and book signing to follow from 9:00-10:00pm
Books will be available for purchase

Opening remarks by local writer and farmer David Mas Masumoto
Featuring readings by the Hmong American Writers' Circle

Download the flyer here: http://www.hmongwriters.org/HAWC-Poster.jpg

Info:
Andre Yang
559.942.8335
[email protected]
http://www.hmongwriters.org/

10/07/2011

Derrick Bell, one of the founding forces of critical race theory, has died.

In 1996, I had my first peer-reviewed presentation accepted to a major conference. I was only a few years into my doctoral program and I was nervous about my research interests. During the conference, I attended a luncheon. The keynote speaker was Derrick Bell. I knew nothing about him. I had n...

09/30/2011

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09/29/2011

Reading tonight in the Henry Madden Library . . .

The Fresno Poets’ Association & Fresno State’s MFA Program in Creative Writing present readings from How do I Begin?: A Hmong American Literary Anthology on Thursday, September 29, at 7 p.m. in Library Auditorium Room 2206 (2nd floor, south).