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She founded and coordinated the Southern California reading series, Wrestling Tigers: Asian Pacific American Writers Speakat the Japanese American National Museum and was literary curator for the Los Angeles Festival of Philippine Arts \u0026amp; Culture (FPAC). She was featured in the Los Angeles Times for her curatorial participation in the ground-breaking NEA-funded World Beyond Poetry Festival that featured over 100 poets from the diverse communities of LA, and co-produced, as part of the LA Enkanto Art Collective, the CD In 'Our Blood: Filipina\/o American Poetry \u0026amp; Spoken Word from Los Angeles'. She is the founder of Bark \u0026amp; Purr Alliance Fund, which makes available resources to aid the rescue of geriatric and terminally ill dogs and cats that enter LA's city and county shelter system. She participates in local and international anti-vivisection efforts and believes in the fundamental rights of non-human animals to live and be free from harm, pain, exploitation, and captivity. 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How do they learn from and teach others? For poets of color, what does the relationship of \\\u0026quot;what one knows\\\u0026quot; have, with conditions extending but not limited to publishing, mentorship and pedagogy, comradeship and collegiality, friendship, love, and possibility? Is one a real poet if one does not have an MFA? For minority poets not considered part of the mainstream because of the combined effects of their ethnic, class, racial, cultural, linguistic, and other identities, what should change in order to accord them the space and respect they deserve? 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Upon receipt of your email, we will check with the publisher if the book is still available, what is the new price, and when to expect delivery. This way, we can relay the particulars to you before you pay. Please note that if you pay and then cancel your order for one reason or another, PayPal has a 3.9% plus $0.15 fee that they charge us for every transaction. So, we would appreciate it if you just follow the instructions as stated here. This way, we will not pass on this fee to you should you cancel your order.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"block paragraph\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"86a4n\" data-offset-key=\"5a5dh-0-0\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-offset-key=\"5a5dh-0-0\" class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan data-offset-key=\"5a5dh-0-0\"\u003e\u003cbr data-text=\"true\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"block paragraph\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"86a4n\" data-offset-key=\"dmc8n-0-0\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-offset-key=\"dmc8n-0-0\" class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan data-offset-key=\"dmc8n-0-0\"\u003e\u003cspan data-text=\"true\"\u003eHow do poets of color come to know what they do about their art and practice? How do they learn from and teach others? For poets of color, what does the relationship of \"what one knows\" have, with conditions extending but not limited to publishing, mentorship and pedagogy, comradeship and collegiality, friendship, love, and possibility? Is one a real poet if one does not have an MFA? For minority poets not considered part of the mainstream because of the combined effects of their ethnic, class, racial, cultural, linguistic, and other identities, what should change in order to accord them the space and respect they deserve? How best can they discuss with and pass on what they have learned to others?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"block paragraph\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"86a4n\" data-offset-key=\"bpj7h-0-0\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-offset-key=\"bpj7h-0-0\" class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan data-offset-key=\"bpj7h-0-0\"\u003e\u003cbr data-text=\"true\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"block paragraph\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"86a4n\" data-offset-key=\"4e7er-0-0\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-offset-key=\"4e7er-0-0\" class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan data-offset-key=\"4e7er-0-0\"\u003e\u003cspan data-text=\"true\"\u003eThese and other questions come up so consistently in our daily experience as poets of color. And we hear them from poets of color at various stages of their careers. Out of the desire not only to hear from each other but also to share what we've learned--each from our unique as well as bonded experiences of writing as poets of color in this milieu--this anthology project was born.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"block paragraph\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"86a4n\" data-offset-key=\"dtgvg-0-0\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-offset-key=\"dtgvg-0-0\" class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan data-offset-key=\"dtgvg-0-0\"\u003e\u003cbr data-text=\"true\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"block paragraph\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"86a4n\" data-offset-key=\"3kcq9-0-0\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-offset-key=\"3kcq9-0-0\" class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan data-offset-key=\"3kcq9-0-0\"\u003e\u003cspan data-text=\"true\"\u003eIn this collection, we make no claims of presenting any definitive theoretical or other stance. Neither do we offer these essays as prescriptive of certain ways of thinking of craft or of doing things, although in them is expressed a collective wish--that writers of color find ways to gain strength and visibility without replicating the systems that play the game of divide and conquer and turn us against each other for narrow or self-serving profit. Instead, let there be a steady effort to compile lore and take inventory of strategies, intersections, bridges; to map our histories, to sight possibilities for the future.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"block paragraph\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"86a4n\" data-offset-key=\"2nr1l-0-0\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-offset-key=\"2nr1l-0-0\" class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan data-offset-key=\"2nr1l-0-0\"\u003e\u003cbr data-text=\"true\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"block paragraph\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"86a4n\" data-offset-key=\"bqa7d-0-0\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-offset-key=\"bqa7d-0-0\" class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan data-offset-key=\"bqa7d-0-0\"\u003e\u003cspan data-text=\"true\"\u003eWe are honored and thankful to have the words of the following poets in this anthology: Mai Der Vang (Foreword), Ching-In Chen, Addie Tsai, Tony Robles, Wendy Gaudin, Ernesto L. Abeytia, Abigail Licad, Tim Seibles, Melissa Coss Aquino, Sasha Pimentel, Jose Angel Araguz, Khadijah Queen, Remica L. 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Sarreal","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe poetry of Nadine Rodriguez-Sarreal was, for me back in 1974, a revelation. At that time I was teaching English at Trinity College of Quezon City in the Philippines. For years as an English professor I had been reading the poetry of my students and sometimes it seemed rather skilled, particularly considering the age level of the one who wrote it. But Nadine's poetry was of a different order, in a very different class all by itself. When Nadine's mother, then editor (now director) of New Day Publishers, asked me to read and evaluate the poetry, I stifled a yawn, agreed, then put it aside for a rainy day. In due time I began to thumb through the manuscript prepared to be bored. Never was I so wrong. Here were the poems I had long been searching for in order to stimulate my students' interest in poetry. First they are concerned with such subjects as feeling alienated, difficulty in adjusting to new situation and people, falling in love, and later falling out of love, all so true to the teenager's life. More important they are crisp, concise, without a single unnecessary word, and the imagery is both boldly original and relevant. Since then these brilliant poems have never failed to impress my students whether I was teaching in the Philippines, Canada, the People's Republic of China, or now in South Korea. In many cases they have sown the seeds for a lifetime appreciation of the poetic art. No other poet, not even one of the literary giants, has done this so well. To Nadine my students and I will be forever grateful. -Howard S. 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