tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-260653202024-02-18T21:03:15.328-08:00Cathy Park Hongbits. fragments. thoughts in progress.Cathy Park Honghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01587769957987311353noreply@blogger.comBlogger76125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26065320.post-39736819666321498302015-05-20T07:08:00.002-07:002015-05-20T07:08:37.230-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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To Vanessa Place’s naïve white
defenders, she has become the face of Charlie Hebdo. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No matter how insignificant the property or
word (including, yes, the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">n</i> word),
white people love to demand their right to it if they are feeling denied.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They say it’s a matter of freedom of
speech.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They say, are we not <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">allowed</i> to appropriate Gone with the
Wind?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Are we not <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">allowed</i> to say what is and what isn’t racist?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We feel restricted! We are being policed! Why
can’t we write about race? (And to answer your question, of course you can
write about it! As a friend Roger Reeves once said, “You invented it! Write
about it!”).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then they dismiss us as an “outraged
mob.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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How convenient that when a writer
of color speaks out, she is often dismissed as being “outraged.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Implied in that: we are hysterical, reactive,
emotional, not capable of nuance and reason. But I also speak with deep
frustration that in the wake of Kenny Goldsmith and Vanessa Place’s antics, we
are called upon to respond, to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">react</i>.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am sick of reacting because yet again,
we have been relegated to the role of chorus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Even if Goldsmith or Place is being put on trial, as their defenders
like to accuse us of doing, they are still the center of the drama.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Because
really, are we talking about the gross representations of black servitude in GWTW,
or the copyright laws that Place writes of so <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">eloquently</i> in her statement? No. We are talking about them<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">. </i>We are talking about them and<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> free speech.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>Goldsmith and Place have perfected the
art of the scandal. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As Claudia Rankine and Beth Loffredo said we
are most comfortable “talking about race in the language of scandal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’re all a little relieved by scandal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s so satisfying, so clear, so easy.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A scandal is an occasion, that is, it has a
convenient time limit. How easy that race can be an occasion for these white
conceptual poets! How easy to stir up a weeklong cycle of outrage before they
saunter off to the next scandalous issue! We, unfortunately, have to live with it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Cathy Park Honghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01587769957987311353noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26065320.post-6675830918449209432014-07-02T05:42:00.001-07:002014-07-02T05:42:36.198-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
A new interview up with Diana Khoi Nguyen at <a href="http://www.poetrynw.org/interview-cathy-park-hong/" target="_blank">Poetry Northwest</a><span style="color: #1e4859; font-family: Arial, Helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">.</span></span></div>
Cathy Park Honghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01587769957987311353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26065320.post-90751889618094412412013-08-08T12:48:00.001-07:002013-08-08T12:48:12.904-07:00Engine Empire Paperback<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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And here are some additional reviews!<br />
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<a href="http://prairieschooner.unl.edu/?q=excerpt/cathy-park-hong-engine-empire">Prairie Schooner</a><br />
<a href="http://janewong.tumblr.com/post/54048795999/my-review-of-cathy-park-hongs-engine-empire-over">Tab</a><br />
<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/08/everlasting-realities-of-the-bohemian-lifestyle/278283/">The Rumpus</a><br />
<a href="http://www.theaviaryonline.com/5/post/2012/12/engine-empire-cathy-park-hong.html">The Aviary</a><br />
<a href="http://www.lanaturnerjournal.com/toc-override/david-lau-cathy-park-hong-will-alexander">Lana Turner</a> (subscription needed)<br />
<a href="http://www.gulfcoastmag.org/index.php?n=2&si=50&s=3125">Gulf Coast</a></div>
Cathy Park Honghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01587769957987311353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26065320.post-51760596320894075882013-04-24T04:39:00.002-07:002013-04-24T04:40:30.869-07:00The Rub<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Mores and I collaborated on a <a href="http://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/cathy-park-hong-and-mores-mcwreath-the-rub">digital project </a>for the New Museum's First Look Series. It's e-chapbook of gifs and haiku that explore shame. Click "view work" and continue clicking to move to the next page. (and btw, not exactly safe for work!)<br />
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Cathy Park Honghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01587769957987311353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26065320.post-22839250017827472632012-11-03T06:52:00.001-07:002012-11-03T06:52:47.053-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Three more reviews for Engine Empire:<br />
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<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/seth-abramson/september-2012-contempora_b_1923827.html">Huffington Post</a><br />
<a href="http://coldfrontmag.com/reviews/engine-empire">Coldfront</a><br />
<a href="http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/review/57-1,%20Hollister.pdf">Chicago Review</a></div>
Cathy Park Honghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01587769957987311353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26065320.post-22505675958465033382012-10-18T05:41:00.003-07:002012-10-18T06:36:54.499-07:00California and Seattle readings<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I'm going out West! Hope to see some of you Bay Area folks. I'm going to be in the Bay Area from Oct 21-24, then in Santa Cruz the 25th, and finally I'm going to be in Seattle on Oct 26! Details below:<br />
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Oct 21, Sunday 5pm<br />
Reading with Paolo Javier and Cheena Marie Lo<br />
for Small Press Traffic<br />
992 Valenica St<br />
San Francisco, CA 94110<br />
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Oct 22, Monday 6PM<br />
UC Davis<br />
Voorhies 126<br />
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Oct 24, Wednesday 6PM<br />
Reading with David Lau<br />
University Press Books<br />
UC Berkeley<br />
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Oct 25, Thursday 6PM<br />
UC Santa Cruz, 6PM<br />
Humanities Lecture Hall<br />
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Oct 26, Friday 7:30<br />
Open Books<br />
2414 North 45th St, Seattle<br />
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Cathy Park Honghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01587769957987311353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26065320.post-4239870386883727552012-07-15T10:06:00.001-07:002012-07-15T10:06:36.037-07:00Engine Empire reviews<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A few other reviews for Engine Empire!
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<a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2012/06/poetry_review_engine_empire_by_cathy_park_hong_.html">Slate</a>
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<a href="http://thefiddleback.com/issue-items/book-reviews-6-12">Fiddleback</a>
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<a href="http://galatearesurrection18.blogspot.com/2012/05/engine-empire-by-cathy-park-hong.html">Galatea Resurrects</a>Cathy Park Honghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01587769957987311353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26065320.post-55595331865949206262012-05-14T05:16:00.001-07:002012-05-14T05:16:55.329-07:00Here's an <a href="http://bombsite.com/issues/1000/articles/6569">interview</a> with Bomb about Engine Empire.
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<br /></div>Cathy Park Honghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01587769957987311353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26065320.post-7838020518683525932012-04-15T16:50:00.002-07:002012-04-15T16:53:12.493-07:00Craig Teicher <a href="http://www.bookforum.com/inprint/019_01/9170">reviews</a> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Engine-Empire-Cathy-Park-Hong/dp/0393082849/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1334533961&sr=8-2">Engine Empire</a> for Bookforum.Cathy Park Honghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01587769957987311353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26065320.post-30440882836402632032012-04-06T09:13:00.000-07:002012-04-06T09:14:22.843-07:00My personal reflections on <a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2012/04/memories-and-thoughts-on-adrienne-rich/">Adrienne Rich</a>.Cathy Park Honghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01587769957987311353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26065320.post-73364022126372627282011-08-23T13:15:00.000-07:002011-08-23T13:19:47.987-07:00Here's an <a href="http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2011/08/23/cathy-park-hong-on-engine-empire/">interview</a> where I talk about my new upcoming book, Engine Empire.Cathy Park Honghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01587769957987311353noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26065320.post-60286766293784420822010-11-30T09:01:00.000-08:002010-11-30T09:06:16.215-08:00On Speculative Poetry: It's the city in drag.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.sarahsze.com/projects/Kanazawa_2004/Kanazawa_Images/SarahSze-0225_03.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 371px; height: 500px;" src="http://www.sarahsze.com/projects/Kanazawa_2004/Kanazawa_Images/SarahSze-0225_03.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>Cathy Park Honghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01587769957987311353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26065320.post-67444541811138843772010-11-22T12:54:00.000-08:002010-11-22T13:09:57.052-08:00On Bluets:<br /><br /><br />I picked up Maggie Nelson’s <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=bluets&x=0&y=0">Bluets</a>. As in, I picked it up in a bookstore, flipped through a few pages, became snagged. Then, I walked to the café end of the bookstore, ordered coffee, found a table, read a few more pages, and then, after reading this passage:<br><br /><blockquote><br />As I collected blues for this project—in folders, in boxes, in notebooks, in memory—I imagined creating a blue tome, an encyclopedic compendium of blue observations, thoughts, and facts. But as I lay out my colletion now, what strikes me most is its anemia—an anemia that seems to stand in direct proportion to my zeal. I thought I had collected enough blue to build a mountain, albeit one of detritus. But it seems to me now as if I have stumbled upon a pile of thin blue gels scattered on the stage long after th show has come and gone; the set, striked<br /></blockquote><br />I walked promptly to the cash register and bought the book. On the train, I finished the slim volume and then began again. It’s a book of lyric essays that are meditations on blue, blue in all its historical, religious and cultural radiations, and the author’s own struggle with depression and loss. Its agility to move between her own personal travails and her scholarship reminds me of Anne Carson’s Glass Essay, the piece where Carson movingly writes about Charlotte Bronte’s life and her own heartbreak. Bluets is a lyric study on perceptions of color, beauty, eros and love. But also, the book is about the act of searching; her process of researching blue becomes an act of passion itself, from the blue curios she examines, to ransacking her own memories of her ex-lover, to reading about saints who gouge out their blue eyes, to her small surprised encounters with blue. There’s a kind of collector’s quality to Nelson’s writing in the way she amasses blue encounters, which leads me to Benjamin’s quote about the collector:<br><br /><blockquote><br />“Among children, collecting is only one process of renewal; other processes are the painting of objects, the cutting out of figures, the application fo decals…the renew the old world—that is the collector’s deepest desire when he is driven to acquire new things.”<br /></blockquote><br />And this--<br><br /><blockquote><br />“Thus there is in the life of a collector a dialectical tensions between the poles of disorder and order. Naturally, his existence is tied to many other things as well: to a very mysterious relationship to ownership, something about which we shall have more to say later; also, to a relationship to objects which does not emphasize their functional value—but studies as loves them as the scene, the stage, of their fate.” <br /></blockquote><br />which aligns with Nelson’s approach towards the color blue, a color that she seems to study as scene, stage, fate. Lyric poems that focus in on the personal lived experience can often feel myopically self-absorbed but Nelson’s Bluets is a gift that must be shared.Cathy Park Honghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01587769957987311353noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26065320.post-39389038306239725652010-11-21T08:30:00.000-08:002010-11-21T08:37:34.206-08:00I might write a personal essay about the music I listened to when I was teenager in LA. I began tentative research (more an excuse to tumble my way down the nostalgia rabbit hole) and came across live footage of bands that played at my favorite scrappy under-age club, Jabberjaw, that’s now defunct. <br><br /> Jabberjaw was a godsend for lonely, music-starved teenagers who couldn’t get into the 21 and over clubs. It cost five dollars to get in. They only served coffee and sodas and no one gave you attitude at the door. It was an especially welcoming—if grotty—place for geeky sixteen year olds. They had some great bands come and play during the 90’s: Unwound, Bikini Kill, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, The Gits, etc. <br><br /> Here’s Bratmobile playing at Jabberjaw:<br /><br /> <br /><object width="360" height="300"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/97D7vngx9CQ?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/97D7vngx9CQ?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="360" height="300"></embed></object>Cathy Park Honghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01587769957987311353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26065320.post-64390356845720416122010-04-28T16:48:00.000-07:002010-04-28T16:49:28.677-07:00This Friday:<br /><br />2-UP is pleased to announce its newest edition, a collaborative poster created by video artist Zerek Kempf and poet Cathy Park Hong. This is the third in a series of collaborative poster editions to be produced by 2-UP in the coming year. Please join us for a launch party hosted by Triple Canopy on Friday, April 30th at 8:00PM at 177 Livingston, Brooklyn, NY 11201 (the shared home of Triple Canopy, The Public School New York, and Light Industry).<br /><br />Combining image and text, Kempf and Hong present a double-sided poster that reflects on industry and its effects on human interaction. Hong's contribution is inspired by the tradition of the poster as socialist propaganda. Riffing on and questioning Tatlin’s celebration of the machine aesthetic, she utilizes a DIY zine-like style of collage and drawings. The images and text are drawn from her recent writings about industrializing Chinese boom towns. Using a fragment of Hong's writing, Kempf takes on the more formal aspects of text. He positions hand-cut and taped letters in the corner of his studio to photograph. Skewed from the vantage of the camera, the view is further impaired by a suspended flurry of wood blocks. This interjection into the image is caused by a force which, though unseen, effects the visible interior of the frame.<br /><br />For the occasion of the reception, Kempf and Hong have created a site specific, temporary video installation, to be projected at 177 Livingston. At 9:00PM, there will be a reading/performance by special guest Thomas Sayers Ellis and Hong.<br /><br />Comprised of 16 artists and writers, each month 2-UP pairs two of its members together to produce a double-sided poster, packaged in twos. The content of each poster is entirely a product of the participants ‘up’ each month. The complete series of 2-UP editions is available for a modest subscription fee; individual editions are available for a suggested donation of $2. Production of each poster is funded by monthly contributions from each member, with all proceeds from the sale of posters re-invested into the project. 2-UP aims to produce low-cost multiples in large editions, guided by the idea that the value of art can exist independently of money and irrespective of rarity.<br /><br />www.twoup.org serves as a record of the project that includes images of each month’s poster and documentation of the collaborative process.<br /><br />The fourth installment of 2-UP will feature Ben Dowell and Mores McWreath, and will be available in May 2010.<br /><br />Initiated by Adam Shecter and Joe Winter, 2-UP is Nathan Lee + Monika Zarzeczna, Davina Semo + Colleen Asper, Ben Dowell + Mores Mcwreath, Cathy Park Hong + Zerek Kempf, Glen Fogel + Craig Kalpakjian, Joe Winter + Christian Hawkey, Cate Marvin + Benjamin Kress, Adam Shecter + Matthea Harvey.<br /><br />For additional information, please email info@twoup.orgCathy Park Honghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01587769957987311353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26065320.post-71087646861113221772010-04-22T17:11:00.001-07:002010-04-22T17:12:00.057-07:00I'll be taking part in the Juniper Literary Festival! Information below:<br /><br />10th ANNUAL JUNIPER LITERARY FESTIVAL<br />Celebrating 10 Years of jubilat<br />April 23 & 24, 2010<br /><br />The 10th annual Juniper Literary Festival honors jubilat's decade of award-winning publishing. Inspired by the journal's adventurous spirit, the festival will explore the national literary landscape and the Pioneer Valley's unique contributions to it. Events include readings and panels by jubilat editors and friends, a tour of Antonio Frasconi's poetic woodcuts, an original performance based on Christopher Smart's “Jubilate Agno,” and a fair showcasing over 50 of the nation's most exciting literary magazines and presses.<br /><br />Friday April 23<br /><br />3:30 pm Eric Carle Museum: Antonio Frasconi Exhibit Tour: curator tours of the internationally acclaimed artist's woodcuts, including works inspired by Pablo Neruda and W.S. Merwin<br /><br />4:30 pm: Eric Carle Museum: Roundtable: On Poetry & The Visual Arts: Jen Bervin, Terrance Hayes, & Matthea Harvey, moderated by Jane Curley<br /><br />6 pm: Fine Arts Center Lobby: Independent Journal & Book Fair Opening Reception<br /><br />7:30 pm: University Gallery: Reading & Performance: Jen Bervin, Christian Hawkey, & Michael Teig, followed by the premier of a performance based on Christopher Smart's “Jubilate Agno,” staged by Missoula Oblongata<br /><br />Saturday April 24<br /><br />10:30 am: Fine Arts Center Lobby: Journal & Book Fair Continues<br /><br />11 am: University Gallery: Roundtable: Poetry, Publishing, & the Pioneer Valley : the dreaming up, creating, & evolving of jubilat, Verse Press/Wave Books & Rain Taxi with Rob N. Casper, Matthew Zapruder, & Eric Lorberer, moderated by Dara Wier<br /><br />12:30 pm: University Gallery: Roundtable: The Future of Poetry, Part II with Heather Christle, Cathy Park Hong, Evie Shockley, & Rebecca Wolff, moderated by Rob N. Casper<br /><br />3 pm: Amherst Cinema Arts Center: Reading: Terrance Hayes, Caroline Knox, Dean Young, & Matthew ZapruderCathy Park Honghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01587769957987311353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26065320.post-11407535153048744102010-04-20T13:41:00.000-07:002010-04-20T13:46:15.400-07:00I have a few New York City readings clustered in the last week of April. Here they are!<br /><br /><br />TUESDAY:<br />Please come and help us celebrate <a href="http://lanaturnerjournal.com/">LANA TURNER</a>: A JOURNAL OF POETRY AND OPINION, sponsored by David Kirschenbaum, editor of Boog City. <br />Lana is being helped to her feet by the poets Timothy Donnelly, Drew Gardner, Karen Garthe, Cathy Park Hong, and Douglas Piccinnini. <br />Music supplied by Drew Gardner. <br />Cal Bedient will do the introductions. <br />When: Tuesday, April 27, beginning promptly at 6 p.m. and lasting one hour. <br />Where: Chelsea: ACA Galleries 529 West 20th Street, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10011<br /><br />FRIDAY: <a href="http://twoup.org/2UP_current.html">2up</a> Launch<br />My poster collaboration with the artist Zerek Kempf will be opening next Friday evening, April 30th at the Triple Canopy space on 177 Livingston. More information TBA. For information about the 2up collective, go to http://twoup.org/2UP_current.html<br /><br /><br />Saturday: PEN World Literary Event Reading<br />When: Saturday, May 1<br />Where: Grand Gallery, National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park, New York City<br />What time: 6–8 p.m.<br />With Homero Aridjis, Ariel Dorfman, Cathy Park Hong, Inga Kuznetsova, and Marlene van Niekerk<br />Tickets: $5/free to PSA and PEN Members<br />Co-sponsored by the Poetry Society of America<br />Celebrate contemporary poetry with PEN and the Poetry Society of America. Six acclaimed poets join us from across the globe for an early evening of readings. Don’t miss this extraordinary lineup of poets—Mexico’s Homero Aridjis, Chile’s Ariel Dorfman, Russia’s Inga Kuznetsova, South Africa’s Marlene van Nierkerk, and Cathy Park Hong from the United States—for an evening of acclaimed verse.<br /><br />I'm involved with 2 other Pen World events. Go <a href="http://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/1096">here</a> if interested.Cathy Park Honghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01587769957987311353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26065320.post-49665779345994935362009-10-08T11:14:00.000-07:002009-10-08T11:16:21.836-07:00My poem, "Thin Shangdu," is just out from this week's <a href="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20091026/hong">The Nation</a>. Pick up an issue!Cathy Park Honghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01587769957987311353noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26065320.post-56432390218298353082009-10-04T08:09:00.000-07:002009-10-04T08:10:04.396-07:00Brilliant <a href="http://robmclennan.blogspot.com/2009/09/12-or-20-questions-joyelle-mcsweeney.html">chestnuts</a> by Joyelle McSweeney.Cathy Park Honghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01587769957987311353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26065320.post-81434103584586589752009-09-21T13:47:00.000-07:002009-09-21T14:15:45.067-07:00I will be part of an exciting Feminist conference this week. Click <a href="http://www.belladonnaseries.org/adfemposchedule.html">here</a> for more information.<br /><br />Also, a belated <a href="http://lanaturnerjournal.com/article.php?article=lau_six_recent_books">review</a> of DDR. It's been around for awhile but I thought I would post it for David Lau's astute analysis. He also published a collection last April, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Virgil-Mountain-Cat-California-Poetry/dp/0520258746/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1253566827&sr=8-1">Virgil and the Mountain Cat</a>, which is full of demanding and subversive lyric illuminations concatenated together by explosive sounds and meditations on late capitalism. Read, especially, The Tupperware Concerto, Many Jasons, Black Line Drawing and Protest in the Philipines. My ear hairs are tickled when reading his verse.Cathy Park Honghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01587769957987311353noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26065320.post-43226280263488885432009-09-01T06:56:00.000-07:002009-09-01T07:28:57.499-07:00I have new poems in <a href="http://www.octopusmagazine.com/issue12/main.html">Octopus</a> magazine. Arda Collins generously wrote a sterling opening for my poems. If you haven't read her <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Daylight-Yale-Younger-Poets/dp/0300148887/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1251813593&sr=8-1">It Is Daylight</a>, go and link that sucker into your Amazon shopping cart right this hot second!<br /><br />Also, some great poems by Heather Christie, Lynn Xu, Tony Tost, and many more.<br /><br />Also, I just noticed Google Books has this "common terms and phases" excerpt where they cram together a paragraph's worth of the most commonly used words in a book, enlarging the font according to the frequency in which the word's been used. It's hilarious. For my DDR, "CHIHUAHUA" is huge while "teef" is also included in teeny tiny letters. Funnier is Translating Mo'um, where the largest words are "BOX WINE."<br /><br />I looked up some other friends or poets I know and noted the funnier enlarged fonts (I'm clearly procrastinating from preparing for Fall semester).<br /><br />Joyelle Mcsweeney: Cockatoos Morose<br />David Lau: Not-Appearing-in-This-Film<br />Lara Glenum: Oedipus Sock Monkey<br />Eugene Ostashevsky: Sextus Propetius<br />Matthea Harvey: Terror Gazelle<br />Shanxing Wang: Smart Dust<br /><br />"Terror Gazelle" and "Smart Dust." That is an unhealthy mix of Cheney, Disney and Philip K. Dick. Although my favorite is "Oedipus Sock Monkey." I'm going to have to go back and see how many times this phrase appears in Lara's book.Cathy Park Honghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01587769957987311353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26065320.post-38008701698789479082009-01-29T05:38:00.000-08:002009-04-06T11:59:59.647-07:00My poem, <span style="font-style:italic;">Adventures in Shangdu</span>, is now in <a href="http://www.conjunctions.com/webcon/hong09.htm">Conjunctions.</a> Check it online.Cathy Park Honghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01587769957987311353noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26065320.post-86559751094852177452008-11-15T14:42:00.000-08:002008-11-15T14:48:35.837-08:00The paperback version of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Dance-Revolution-Cathy-Park-Hong/dp/0393333116/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1226789001&sr=8-1">Dance Danc Revolution</a> will come out at the end of November. If you thought that the hardcover was too formidably priced, well now, you can buy multiple copies for friends and families!<br /><br />I'm also now blogging for <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Dance-Revolution-Cathy-Park-Hong/dp/0393333116/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1226789001&sr=8-1">poetryfoundation.org</a>. Visit and rant in the comments section.Cathy Park Honghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01587769957987311353noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26065320.post-77562313616398846262008-09-18T06:03:00.000-07:002008-09-18T06:07:16.288-07:00I'm deeply saddened by the death of David Foster Wallace and have been re-reading my now faded Infinite Jest.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.mcsweeneys.net/">McSweeney's</a> has a touching collection of memories by those who have, in some way or another, met him or known him.Cathy Park Honghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01587769957987311353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26065320.post-22911248138693788422008-03-21T09:02:00.002-07:002008-03-21T09:08:05.459-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.cathyparkhong.com/uploaded_images/mores_thesis_show_invite-766864.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://www.cathyparkhong.com/uploaded_images/mores_thesis_show_invite-766859.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />I'm going to be in Los Angeles next week for my boyfriend's thesis art show at USC. If you happen to be in LA, please come out for the opening. It will feature video art, photos, and I don't know what else. I have a neurotic tendency to butt in with unnecessary advice, so he and I decided that it would be best if he keeps his ideas to himself. I'm sure, though, that it will be a doozy of a show.Cathy Park Honghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01587769957987311353noreply@blogger.com3