Others will enter the gates : immigrant poets on poetry, influences, and writing in America /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Animashaun, Abayomi (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: [United States] : Black Lawrence Press, [2015]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Lisboa, Tanga, Goa / Megan Fernabdes
  • Harness / Sun Yung Shin
  • Snowflake falling through time : a Bengali-American story / Azubai Ahmed
  • Why I am (not) an immigrant poet / Anis Shivani
  • Gatekeepers and gatecrashers in contemporary American poetry: recollections of a Filipino immigrant poet in the US. / Maria Victoia A. Grageda-Smith
  • Poetry brings out the Mexican in me / Rigoberto Gonzalez
  • Home, again : an immigrant writer's meditation on the meaning of home / Kwame Dawes
  • What is Russian about American poetry (If you happen to be a Russian-born American poet / Michael Dumanis
  • What language are you? / Andrei Guruianu
  • The language of my desire / Cristian Flores Garcia
  • In the name of the letter, the spirit & the double helix / Faday Joudah
  • Like a bear playing a flute / Piotr Gwiazda
  • English as a second language / Vasyl Makhno
  • Institutionalized : my influences as an American poet / Gerardo Pacheco Matus
  • One-off / Jose Antonio Rodriguez
  • Travels through the dark : William Safford's influence on a Nierian emigre poet / Abayomi Animashaun
  • A lyric voice : Osip Mandestan / Ilya Kaminsky
  • Christopher Columbus was a damn blasted liar : the narrative of discovery in global literature / Mathew Shenoda
  • To be a poet in America / Shabnam Piryaei
  • An emigre poet in America
  • Marilene Phipps-Kettlewell
  • On being an immigrant poet in America / Barbara Jane Reyes
  • Unconventional bonds : writing through dementia and the borderless trauma of war / Ocean Vuong
  • Poetry as country, country as choice / Lisa Birman
  • Of roots and leaves / Sholeh Wolpe
  • Contraband of Hoopoe / Ewa Crusciel
  • The stories in my ears / Vandan Khanna
  • Excerpts from the Pillow Book / Jee Leong Koh
  • The reader within me / Majid Naficy
  • Scenes in a journey towards / Pauline Kaldas
  • Where are you from? / David McLoghlin.