{ bee + spool }

Podcasts of both parts of a two-hour reading of anthology contributors is now available for download. Coordinated by Abby Chen, program director for Chinese Culture Center, the space and gallery for AAWAA’s Cheers to Muses exhibition and book launch this past summer.
Part 1 is here on blip.tv.
Introduced by Debbie Yee, poetry readings by Genny [...]

“Hand Tools”
art by Shari Arai DeBoer

Communique
Tin hollers a raindrop’s clap.
And stems of pens, the reach
of a wooden 12-inch ruler,
the watercolorist’s brushes,
rattle in the can
once marketed for the worker’s brew.
Type heartily now; discern letter
from carbon-copied invoice.
Only ghosts, empty spaces and
children clamber for news
of your lover’s war
by telegraph.

So, this poem written during a September 2007 Kundiman Fellows [...]