Chicago Dispatch: bits, and some web finds

PALABRA PURA 2009 

winds to a close tomorrow night

with Rita María Martínez and Luis Tubens

(more later)

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Craig Santos Perez directs us to a very cool web presence

called Asian American Poetry and Writing.
Lots to explore there, including projects by Lee Herrick;
a piece on Kundiman; another on VONA...

There's also an interesting substantial interview 

with Gabriela Jauregui, whose book,  

Controlled Decay (Akashic/Black Goat, 2008),

will be reviewed by Craig in Latino Poetry Review (LPR) #3.

Jauregui is slated to feature in PALABRA PURA 2010

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J. Michael Martínez,

who is currently editing a multi-author collaborative essay

on Latino writing, shares the following image with us at his blog:

He also shares with us a link taking us a

 a poem by Rodrigo Toscano

on YouTube that's worth a look and a listen.

Toscano's National Poetry Series volume

Collapsible Poetics Theater (Fence Books, 2008)

will be reviewed in LPR #3

by poet-critic John Chávez

[ other poets slated to be reviewed or written about in LPR # 3:

Silvia Curbelo,

2010 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize final judge 

Rhina Espaillat

Kristin Naca

who will be inaugurating PALABRA PURA 2010

Griselda Suarez

Emma Trelles,

and others ]

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And speaking of new titles...

The Book of Ours (Momotombo Press, 2009)

by Octavio R. Gonzlález

with an introduction by Rigoberto González

went to the printer's yesterday...

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And finally, in case you missed it last spring (I did)

Arts Desk at the NewHour at PBS online featured

a wonderful poem by the aforementioned

winner of the Academcy of American Poet's Walt Whitman Prize,

along with an audio recordning of him:

"White Song"

by J. Michael Martínez