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From: <b>Gerald Maa</b> <<a href="mailto:geraldmaa@hotmail.com">geraldmaa@hotmail.com</a>><br>
Date: Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 6:31 PM<br>
Subject: 8+1: A Symposium (LA, 7 May 2011)<br>
To: <a href="mailto:gerald@aalrmag.org">gerald@aalrmag.org</a><br>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Could you post to the CW grad and student listerve?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Thanks!<o:p></o:p></p>
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Vanessa<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>The Asian American Literary Review is hosting a symposium on
Saturday 7 May at the Japanese American National Museum. Attached is
the press release (also pasted below) and pdf flier for that event, as
well as a pdf flier for a party Hyphen magazine is putting on
afterward. <br>
Symposium event page: <a
href="http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/event.php?eid=207912839232846"
target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/event.php?eid=207912839232846</a><br>
Hyphen (fancier) event page: <a
href="http://www.hyphenmagazine.com/event/2011/04/our-bittersweet-issue-teaser-party-la"
target="_blank">http://www.hyphenmagazine.com/event/2011/04/our-bittersweet-issue-teaser-party-la</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<h2><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</span><o:p></o:p></h2>
<p><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black;background:white'>CONTACT</span></b><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black;background:white'>: </span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;background:white'> </span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;background:white'>Gerald Maa, Editor-In-Chief, The
Asian American Literary Review</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='background:white'><a href="tel:512.577.1204" target="_blank">512.577.1204</a>
<a href="mailto:editors@aalrmag.org" target="_blank">editors@aalrmag.org</a>
<a href="http://www.aalrmag.org" target="_blank">www.aalrmag.org</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black;background:white'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black;background:white'>ASIAN
AMERICAN LITERARY REVIEW HOLDS FIRST WEST COAST SYMPOSIUM</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black;background:white'>IN LITTLE
TOKYO, LOS ANGELES</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black;background:white'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black;background:white'>When: May 7, 10
a.m. to 5:30 p.m.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black;background:white'>Where: Japanese American
National Museum, 369 E. First St., Los Angeles</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black;background:white'>FREE TO THE
PUBLIC</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;background:white'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Renowned and emerging Asian American writers will converge at the Japanese
American National Museum on May 7 for a day-long celebration of contemporary
literature.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black;background:white'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><i><span style='color:black;background:white'>8+1: A Symposium, Voices
from the Asian American Literary Review</span></i></b><i><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black;background:white'> </span></i><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black;background:white'>will feature Joy Kogawa (<i>Obasan)</i>,
Kip Fulbeck (<i>Part Asian, 100% Hapa</i>), Rishi Reddi (<i>Karma and Other
Stories</i>), R. Zamora Linmark (<i>Leche</i>, <i>Rolling the R’s)</i>, Reese
Okyong Kwon (short fiction writer, recently named one of <i>Narrative’s </i>“30
Below 30” writers<i>)</i>, Viet Nguyen (<i>Race and Resistance: Literature and
Politics in Asian America), </i>Hiromi Ito (<i>Killing Kanoko</i>) with
award-winning translator Jeffrey Angles, Ray Hsu (<i>Cold Sleep Permanent
Afternoon</i>) and Los Angeles native Brian Ascalon Roley (<i>American Son</i>).
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black;background:white'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black;background:white'>These writers
reflect the richness and complexity of the Asian American literary landscape.
With family roots in Japan, India, the Philippines, Korea, China, and Viet Nam,
these writers touch upon fluid identities and communities, erased histories,
and linguistic and cultural alienation. Their work ranges from delicate to
expressive, experimental to moral.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black;background:white'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black;background:white'>The symposium
will include paired readings, Q&A sessions and book signings. The
public may attend any or all of the readings.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black;background:white'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;background:white'>Event sponsors
include: Japanese American National Museum, UCI Center for Writing and
Translation, USC Asian American Studies Program, UCLA Asian American Studies
Center, UCLA English Department and UCLA Friends of English, Vietnamese
American Arts & Letters Association, Coffee House Press, <i>Hyphen Magazine</i>,
Philippine Expressions Bookshop, Kaya Press, Diasporic Vietnamese Artists
Network, Giant Robot, Asian American Journalists Association—Los Angeles
Chapter, <i>Audrey Magazine</i>, Asian Arts Initiative, Calypso Press, Asian
Pacific American Studies at Loyola Marymount University, Asian Pacific American
Librarians Association, and Japan America Society of Southern California.
</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;background:white'>This event is supported
by Poets and Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from The James
Irvine Foundation.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;background:white'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black;background:white'>For a symposium
schedule and full author bios, visit <a href="http://www.aalrmag.org/symposium/"
target="_blank">http://www.aalrmag.org/symposium/</a>.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black;background:white'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;background:white'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<h3>About <span style='font-variant:small-caps'>The Asian American Literary
Review</span><o:p></o:p></h3>
<p>The Asian American Literary Review, Inc. (AALR) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit
literary arts organization, a space for those who consider the designation
“Asian American” a fruitful starting point for artistic vision and community.
We are committed to inclusion and community-building; we are committed to
exploring where our many communities are going—our ever-evolving social
realities and imaginative possibilities.<o:p></o:p></p>
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