i was just checking my mailbox at school. garry morse mentioned awhile ago that he was making a package for me, which i thought was nice, but then didn’t think about it again. well, i just got the package. there are seventeen– count ’em– seventeen chapbooks– in it!! i’m not impressed by production for the…

So I’m more or less in my new place now. It’ll be great to get those last boxes cleared away.Much travel coming up– to Frankfurt for a conference called “Negotiating Diversity”, then to Spain for talks in Huelva and Vigo. I’ll detour to Cordoba and Granada while I’m in the south– have had a longstanding…

watching paint dry is like watching paint dry

Just back from Toronto, where I received star treatment from Gail Vanstone and her students at York. Talked about Salt Fish Girl, read a little Ham. It’s a very cool course they have there, that invites a different Canadian writer to speak every other week. On the weeks without a visitor, the prof lectures about…

There’s been a lot going on lately, precisely the stuff I like to blog. The paradox of time… when there’s something to say, there’s no time to say it. Refracting Pacific Canada dense and interesting. Highlights– Shu-Mei Shih’s preconference colloquium on the end of diaspora, an interesting talk by Moon-Ho Jung on the relationship between…

Sina Queyras and Daphne Marlatt are reading at the Kootenay School of Writing this Saturday, March 17 at Spartacus Books, 319 West Hastings, at 7:30 pm.Lots of good KSW stuff coming up the next bit. Christine Stewart is doing a talk the next day about Vico, excess and Lisa Robertson’s Debbie: an Epic.Christine, myself and…

A couple of good conferences at UBC this weekend: Refracting Pacific Canada: New Directions in Race, Citizenship and Migrationhttp://www.instrcc.ubc.ca/refracting/ SOLITUDES and GLOBALIZATION: Post-World War II Art and Culture Across the Americashttp://www.ahva.ubc.ca/eventsDetails.cfm?EventID=263&EventTypeNumID=6 Don’t forget to come to the reading for Refracting Pacific Canada. It’s at the UBC Asian Centre at 7:30 on Thursday, May 15. Featured…

Lots of discussion at Serial Accomodations this weekend about the problem of writing diasporic Asian women’s experience, and about the placement, circulation and understanding of that work inside institutions. No escape from language, or from master narratives. There is still feeling and meaning– in text or in excess of it? Are feeling and meaning desirable…