The Hay(Na)ku Anthology, Volume 2 by Jean Vengua Anthology

The Hay(Na)ku Anthology, Volume 2 by Jean Vengua AnthologyEdited by Jean Vengua and Mark Young Poetry. Multicultural Studies. The "hay(na)ku" is a poetic form invented by Eileen Tabios, as inspired by Richard Brautigan, Jack Kerouac, and Tabios' meditations on the Filipino trans colonial and diasporic experience. The form is deceptively simple: a tercet comprised of one , two and three word lines. Many poets also created variations from the basic form, attesting to its paradoxical suppleness despite its

Sean is Filipino and Irish

Hers is a poetics of social and cultural interrogation in which she succeeds in uniting what she would call the 'covex with the concave

which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and won the 2009 Grub Street Book Prize

It is more important to know how to travel light

``Celebrating Rice

with her wit and wisdom showing on every page

ISBN-10: 177517890-0

not stodgy or stultifying like some academics with their voluminous footnotes and explanations

the lips curled while the jaw relaxed

hands-on advice

Jessica Hagedorn--write poems in which ethnicity plays a minor role

This book traces a history from 1946―the last year that sakadas (plantation workers) were imported from the Philippines―to the centennial year (2006) of their settlement in Hawai‘i