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Kartika Review and poet Bryan Thao Worra have thrown down the gauntlet. Can we find 500 Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders--10 from eac...

Amy Chua’s new book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother , has provoked controversy for its supposed argument that Chinese mothers are better th...

The New York Times Book Review has a feature up on “Why Criticism Matters,” with six book critics opining on the continuing value of litera...

My new book, Race and the Avant-Garde: Experimental and Asian American Poetry since 1965 , is now available from Stanford University Press ....

Here's the paper I gave on Thursday about poetry blogs at the "Markets: From the Bazaar to eBay" conference held by the Univer...

If you're a poet who blogs (or someone who blogs about poetry), I'd love to have your input on a talk I'm giving at a conference...

So there we were, three Americans in Toronto on Tuesday night, watching MSNBC streaming on a Mac desktop monitor and each of us with laptop ...

While I'm not crazy about the ongoing Barack Obama-Bill Clinton smackdown , I get why it works for both campaigns. As we saw in the quic...

This is totally awesome. The Nevada Democratic Party site has caucus-by-caucus results, which means you can see exactly how each candidat...

While everyone is reporting that Hillary Clinton has won the Nevada caucuses, it appears that Obama will be awarded more delegates in the e...

for Steve Halle Dear Mongolian Death Worm , No one is safe from my bureaucracy of cheese. We may as well pretend that this high-salt Easter...

Came across this wacky post from the Times (UK) Online suggesting that Al Gore would be a great candidate...for vice president, with Obama ...

Timothy Yu's Facebook profile It should also tell you something about where my current energies lie that I'm assuming the only way a...

I am weirdly realizing that this blog has been inactive far longer than it was ever active. Looking back at my archives, it seems like my m...

Okay, so it's been, oh, 6 months or so since my last entry. But I'm popping back up to share the slew of photos I took at the MLA ...

Welcome to our OETRY. Notice there is no "P" in it. Please keep it that way.

They enter wearing poem-proof vests. Each is armed with a Poetry Magazine totebag. In close formation they swarm the free tables for copies...

Series A presents a special poetry reading in conjunction with Juan Angel Chavez 's Speaker Project Thursday, May 31, 7:00 p.m. Hyde Par...

Originally uploaded by tympan . Lessons learned at an evening of comedic poetry at Myopic : 1. Fixed forms are funny. The more ela...

A middle-aged man with frayed pant cuffs sitting in a comfortable armchair in a suburban Borders cafe leafing through the most recent issue ...