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Subject: Kundiman's Vincent Chin memorial Chapbook Prize
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2006 13:41:43 -0700
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PLEASE FORWARD THIS TO INTERESTED PARTIES.  THANK YOU!

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The Vincent Chin Memorial Chapbook Prize

Deadline:  June 30, 2006
Judge: John Yau
Prize: $500, Barrow Street publication, &amp; Full Scholarship to Kundiman
Retreat 2007
Fee: $15
Guidelines: www.kundiman.org
Eligbility: Asian American poets who have not published more than one =
book
of forty-eight pages or more.

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On June 19, 1982, in Detroit, Vincent Chin was beaten to death with a
baseball bat by a man and his stepson. The two laid-off autoworkers
mistook Chin for Japanese =97 an Asian group they blamed for the ailing =
U.S.
auto industry. The assailants never served jail time, and later federal
civil-rights courts acquitted them entirely of the crime.

For many today, this is a rarely remembered footnote in American =
history.
However, the tragedy of Vincent Chin marked an important change in how
Asian Americans viewed themselves. It was the first time, according to =
APA
advocates and academics, that people who traced their ancestry to
different countries in Asia and the Pacific Islands crossed ethnic and
socioeconomic lines to fight [politically] as a united group of Asian
Pacific Americans. They were Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Filipino; =
they
were waiters, lawyers, and grandmothers who were moved to action by what
happened to Vincent Chin.

For the first time, Asian Americans banded together against the
discrimination and racism directed toward the APA community.  Decades
later, the need for Asian Americans to unite as a population and to
project a voice into the cultural mainstream is as urgent as ever.

In honor of Vincent Chin and this watershed moment in Asian American
history, Kundiman and Barrow Street are sponsoring The Vincent Chin
Memorial Chapbook Prize. This annual prize is an opportunity for both
Kundiman and Barrow Street to support and spotlight the talent of an
emerging Asian American poet, a new voice in the landscape of Asian
American _expression and power.

Winner will receive:
=95        $500 cash prize
=95        Chapbook publication in Barrow Street:
http://www.barrowstreet.org/journal.html
=95        Full scholarship to the 2007 Kundiman Summer Retreat

Applicant Eligibility
Asian American poets who have not published more than one book of
forty-eight pages or more.

Entry Fee
Check for $15.00 payable to The New York Foundation for the Arts

Judge
John Yau will judge this year=92s contest.

For guidelines and more information on The Vincent Chin Memorial =
Chapbook
Prize, please go to:  http://www.kundiman.org


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important change in how&lt;/FONT&gt;

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&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT SIZE=3D2&gt;In honor of Vincent Chin and this watershed moment in =
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&lt;BR&gt;&lt;FONT SIZE=3D2&gt;history, Kundiman and Barrow Street are sponsoring =
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the talent of an&lt;/FONT&gt;

&lt;BR&gt;&lt;FONT SIZE=3D2&gt;emerging Asian American poet, a new voice in the =
landscape of Asian&lt;/FONT&gt;

&lt;BR&gt;&lt;FONT SIZE=3D2&gt;American _expression and power.&lt;/FONT&gt;
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&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT SIZE=3D2&gt;Winner will receive:&lt;/FONT&gt;

&lt;BR&gt;&lt;FONT SIZE=3D2&gt;&amp;#8226;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; =
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&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT SIZE=3D2&gt;Applicant Eligibility&lt;/FONT&gt;

&lt;BR&gt;&lt;FONT SIZE=3D2&gt;Asian American poets who have not published more than =
one book of&lt;/FONT&gt;

&lt;BR&gt;&lt;FONT SIZE=3D2&gt;forty-eight pages or more.&lt;/FONT&gt;
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&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT SIZE=3D2&gt;Entry Fee&lt;/FONT&gt;

&lt;BR&gt;&lt;FONT SIZE=3D2&gt;Check for $15.00 payable to The New York Foundation =
for the Arts&lt;/FONT&gt;
&lt;/P&gt;

&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT SIZE=3D2&gt;Judge&lt;/FONT&gt;

&lt;BR&gt;&lt;FONT SIZE=3D2&gt;John Yau will judge this year&amp;#8217;s contest.&lt;/FONT&gt;
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