<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><font face="Times New Roman">Monday, April 26, 2010</font></span></b></p>
<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: center 207.65pt left 279.5pt" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><font face="Times New Roman">3-5pm INTN 4043<span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>(Ethnic Studies Conference Room)</font></span></b></p>
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<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt"><font size="3"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond">I</span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; mso-ansi-language: RU" lang="RU">nspired by the examples of other queer women of color who were writing collectively</span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond">, </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Ching-In Chen & Tamiko Beyer’s </span></b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; mso-ansi-language: RU" lang="RU">collaborat</span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond">ion is</span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; mso-ansi-language: RU" lang="RU"> an attempt to practice a decolonial poetics</span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: RU" lang="RU">We began by </span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">reading/thinking about </span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: RU" lang="RU">the work of certain poetic ancestors, </span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">including Larissa Lai, Larissa Lai, Rita Wong, <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Cathy Park Hong<b>,</b></span> </span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: RU" lang="RU">Eric Gamalinda, </span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Haas Mroue, </span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: RU" lang="RU">Judy Tzu-Chun Wu <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">writing about the physician</span> Margaret Chung, Kristin Naca, Pepón Osorio, Romel Joseph</span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"> &</span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; mso-ansi-language: RU" lang="RU"> June Jordan</span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond">, </span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">writing</span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: RU"> <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold" lang="RU">two different poem<b>-</b></span><span lang="RU">strands by exchanging work via e-mail and then using a collaborative revising process where we wove our words together.</span></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Ching-In Chen is an MFA student in the Creative Writing program at UC Riverside and the author of </i>The Heart’s Traffic<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Tamiko Beyer is the poetry editor of </i>Drunken Boat<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>They are both Kundiman Fellows</i></span></font></p>
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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calisto MT'; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Sponsored by the Mellon Group on Decolonization Studies</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond"></span></b></p>