Animating Poetry
www.kayapress.orgVote for your favorite animation of text from Shailja Patel's tour-de-force poem Shilling Love. Which do you think does the best job of pulling you inside the poem? How do you think animation can enhance or contribute to a poem? Pick your favorite animation (the winner gets a $50 gift certificate to Amazon!) and give your thoughts on collaborative interactions between poetry and moving images.
Migritude Launch Party at Kearny Street Workshop, SF!
December 5th, 6-9 PM, FREE. ARC Studios and Gallery, SFHang with our own Shailja Patel at Kearny Street Workshop's Ladies Who've Launched party!
Come riot with us
Pageturner Festival, Sunday Nov. 7, Powerhouse Arena, BKLYNWe're raising a little hell with the Asian American Writers Workshop this Sunday in Brooklyn - take the F train to DUMBO and we'll riot together. The second annual Pageturner Festival will feature Kaya authors Luis Francia and Samantha Chanse. Also in effect: Amitava Kumar, Meena Alexander & more! Check out www.pageturnerfest.org for deets
Shailja Patel performance at Global Fund for Women
November 11th, 6.30pm, San Francisco, CAWatch Shailja Patel perform at Global Fund For Women's "Resist, Reclaim, Restore" with Isabel Allende!
Shailja Patel reading at Modern Times Bookstore
November 9th, 7pm, San Francisco, CA www.mtbs.com/Hang out with Shailja Patel as she reads from her new book, Migritude.
Shailja Patel reading at Elliott Bay Book Company!
November 5th, 7pm, Seattle, WA http://www.elliottbaybook.com/Meet Shailja and listen her read from her brand-new book, Migritude, at the Elliott Bay Book Company!
Migritude Book Launch
October 29th: Book launch, National Steinbeck Center, Salinas, CA www.steinbeck.orgCome party with Shailja Patel and celebrate the launch of her book, Migritude!
Shailja Patel performs from Migritude
Tonight (and 7x hereafter!) Shailja Patel on KQED Spark! TVStarting tonight on KQED, Shailja Patel will perform from her one woman show and poetic memoir, Migritude. Migritude is forthcoming from Kaya in smoking hot book form, November, 2010. Showtimes: KQED 9HD Wed, Oct 6, 2010 -- 7:30pm Thu, Oct 7, 2010 -- 1:30am Fri, Oct 8, 2010 -- 11:30pm Sat, Oct 9, 2010 -- 5:30am KQED Life Sat, Oct 9, 2010 -- 2:00pm Sun, Oct 10, 2010 -- 5:30pm Sun, Oct 10, 2010 -- 11:30pm Mon, Oct 11, 2010 -- 5:30am
West Coasters! Kaya poet Denise Uyehara at Skylight Books, LA
Sunday, September 12, 5pm-7pmDenise Uyehara will be reading with her fellow PEN Emerging Voices awardees at Skylight Books in Los Angeles. Skylight Books 1818 N. Vermont Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90027 Tel: (323) 660-1175 Check out Uyehara's book, Maps of City and Body, and see her live!
Kaya Press at Brooklyn Book Festival!!
Sunday, September 12, 10-6pm, BKLYN! (http://www.brooklynbookfestival.org) Brooklyn Borough Hall, accessible by 2/3/4/5/A/C/F/R trainsKaya Press will be tearing down the house and raising the roof at this year's Brooklyn Book Festival! Come meet our authors: Ed Lin (Waylaid, This is a Bust) Thaddeus Rutkowski (Rough House) Samantha Chanse (Back to the Graveyard, forthcoming from Kaya Press in 2011). All three will be signing at our table where we'll also have copies of Genpei Akasegawa's Hyperart: Thomasson, Casio Abe's Beat Takeshi v. Takeshi Kitano, Kazuo Hara's Camera Obtrusa, and more! So swing by on Sunday and find out what makes us smokin' hot!
Come watch Samantha Chanse in Brooklyn!
Saturday, July 31, 8pm, ZoraSpace, Brooklyn, NYC (http://zoraspace.com)Check out Kaya's newest forthcoming author! BACK TO THE GRAVEYARD is a solo show about the joys and perils of family dinner planning, bad art, drinking in public, and, of course, flesh-eating monsters. Writer & performer Samantha Chanse presents four characters, including herself, sort of, in a tragi-comedic hour featuring sullen volunteers, groundbreaking Re-Readings of The Text from POC Perspectives, brave and honest portrayals of homophobia, and zero nudity. ZORASPACE is located at 315 4th Avenue between 3rd and 2nd streets in Park Slope, Brooklyn. F to 9th street/4th Ave, M/R to Union Street. SUGGESTED DONATION: $8
Come hear Ed Lin, Claire Light, and Joel B. Tan!
Friday, April 30, 7pmEast Wind Bookstore 2066 University Ave. Berkeley, Calif. (510) 548-2350 Come out to hear Ed Lin read from Snakes Can't Run, the follow up to Kaya's This is a Bust. Also reading are Claire Light and Joel B. Tan.
Book party for INDIVISIBLE!
Shailja Patel will join others in reading from this groundbreaking South Asian American poetry anthology.May 1st, 2010, 7:30pm Mission Cultural Center 2868 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA
Shailja Patel announced as one of 2010's Sundance Theatre Lab Fellows!
Shailja Patel's award-winning MIGRITUDE is forthcoming from Kaya Press in Fall 2010.Poetry Flash reviews Lisa Chen's MOUTH
"If, as Lisa Chen herself advises in “Translator’s Apologia,” you “…Enter these pages with / The lowered expectations of a prison guard,” you may be pleasantly surprised by the pointed coherence that frequently emerges from Chen’s fantastic verbiage...."Click for the complete review.
Lisa Chen reading at UC Berkeley
April 1, 2010: 12 pm : Lisa Chen will be reading at UC Berkeley's acclaimed LUNCH POEMS Series!Bay Area folks, come out to hear Lisa Chen give a reading from her award-winning book MOUTH!
Don't miss Kaya's first Bay Area Holiday Party!
Join us for a holiday book launch reception, and a preview of KSW's performance tour "SF Thomassons" with Philip Huang.WHEN: Friday, December 18; 6 - 9 pm WHERE: PariSoma, 1436 Howard St. @ 10th WHAT: Reception, book launch, performance ADMISSION IS FREE! In the 80's Japanese conceptual artist Akasegawa Genpei released HYPERART: THOMASSON, a book investigating and describing an urban architectural phenomenon called a "Thomasson." (See the book trailer below for more about Thomassons.) To celebrate Kaya Press' publication of the first English translation of HYPERART: THOMASSON, Bay Area Asian American arts organization Kearny Street Workshop (KSW) is producing "SF Thomassons," a two-phase project that includes a set of photographs by KSW artists of local Thomassons and a guided performance tour of a selection of these Thomassons. The complete guided tour will be performed January 23 & 24. To launch the book, we are holding a holiday reception, with music, an opportunity to buy the book, and a short preview of the tour. Come drink some punch with SF's Asian American arts community before we break for the holidays, and do a little last minute gift shopping!
Thomassons Come to the U.S.!
Because Kaya is a FULL SERVICE, AUDIENCE PARTICIPATORY kind of publisher, we present you with our Hyperart: Thomasson website.Hyperart: Thomasson website. In the seventies, Japanese artist Akasegawa Genpei and his buddies discovered "hyperart," unintentional art created by the city itself. Urban objects and structures that had had a use in the past, but were now useless (e.g. telephone poles which no longer carried lines, or second story doorways in the wall that didn't lead to a landing anymore), were everywhere, watching the city progress all around them, overlooked by passersby. Akasegawa named these objects "Thomassons" after an American baseball hitter recruited to a Japanese team, who came near to a strikeout record. Akasegawa wrote about these objects in a regular column in a Japanese photo magazine, and soon readers were submitting photos of Thomassons they had found to be evaluated. Akasegawa collected these humorous and profound columns into the book HYPERART: THOMASSON, and it was a big hit in 1980's Japan. To celebrate the release of the first English translation (by Matt Fargo) of HYPERART: THOMASSON, Kaya is setting up a website [link] for a new generation of collaborators (i.e. YOU) to submit their Thomassons. Read the book to find out what it's all about. Then go looking for Thomassons in your area. Don't forget to bring your digital camera! When you have some Thomassons captured, upload the photos and your descriptions onto our website. Also, don't miss the "SF Thomassons" page! Kaya is collaborating with Bay Area Asian American arts organization Kearny Street Workshop to produce a performance guided tour of San Francisco's Thomassons. The SF Thomassons page will be populated by SF Thomassons discovered and photographed by Kearny Street Workshop artists. Stay tuned for more news on this project! .