Re-engaging Race
OK. I’ve done it. I’ve re-entered the zone of Writing Thru Race and have been writing thru race… again. It was the big gap in my dissertation, avoided largely because of a certain horror I felt about re-engaging what I experienced in 1994 as a very abject moment. Abject, but important– in some ways a…
good water, crappy air kafkanada
stranded in montreal. it’ll have taken 3 days to get back to vancouver from miami, courtesy of our national airline. flight pass? don’t believe the hype. the seat is more important than the body that fills it.still, great to see monika and scott, and a very grown-up and beautiful olivia.and had a fab time in…
san fran’s disco
La dolce vita in San Francisco, ‘puter on back. 76-speaker sound experience at the Audium, all egg-like and dark. Chris says it’s so passe, but I dug the immersion. Coit Tower, Columbus plus labour-inspired murals– strange combo of ideologies. Fishy Farralon, big dollars. Karaoke screams the spirits out. Cafe hopping, revising diss, reading Mark Leyner…
mind travel
Lots of travels and projects on the go. Interesting stuff in the next bit: Serial Accomodations: Diasporic Asian Women’s Writing, a symposium at the Choi Bldg, UBC, March 9-10 2007: Anniversaries of Change, conference to mark (among other things) the centennary of 1907 anti-Asian Vancouver Riots, March 15-17 I’m on to San Francisco this weekend…
Why We Write
Just received from TSAR: TSAR Publications Presents Why we Write:Conversations with African Canadian Poets and Novelists A Discussion Panel with interviewer H Nigel Thomas FeaturingWayde Compton (Author, 49th Parellel Psalm)Karina Vernon (Journalist)David Chariandy (Professor, Simon Fraser University) Tuesday, February 20, 20076:30pm – 9:30pm@Spartacus Books319 West Hastings2nd FloorVancouver, British Columbia The panelists will discuss the issues…
chilly philly
Actually, it wasn’t that cold, though it did snow. Had a great week visiting with Janet Neigh, her two lovely and generous roommates James and Jennifer and the wonder-chihuahuas Popsicle and Nina. Getting there was a hassle– it took Air Canada four tries and three passes through US Customs to get me, and two newfound…
ghosts, posters, poetic fact
Big weekend with the elders. Shirley Bear’s 30-year retrospective opened at the Burnaby Art Gallery on Saturday, and she had launch for her poetry book, Virgin Bones, the next day. I went with Roy. We were especially astounded by the way ghosts seemed to emerge from a particular dry ink process she was using in…