H O M E : "Between Heaven and the Bedroom"

Kartika Review exists to serve the broad, ever expanding "Asian American" diaspora, and according to its "about" section, the crescent-shaped kartika knife symbolizes--in Tibetan/Vajrayana Buddhist tradition--the removal of ignorance and superficiality in order to aid enlightenment.

The second half of Kartika Review's latest issue includes beautiful meditations on the elusive concept of "home." This issue also marks Kenji Liu's debut as Kartika Review's new Poetry Editor.

I am beyond honored that my poem, "Between Heaven and the Bedroom," was invited to communicate with the other gorgeous pieces in this issue. Please check out my poem and the online version of the journal here: Issue #7!

R A D I C A L

I vow to update this website more often.

I failed to ram a "Happy National Poetry Month" entry down your throats. And didn't say a lick about this year's AWP in Denver [which I didn't attend, but my poetess roommate did, and carried 33 new books back to Brooklyn!].

I can't wait to steal her Bob Hicok loot.

Yesterday marks not "Tax Day," but the halfway point for National Poetry Month. How do poets celebrate the halfway point? They normally don't. But this year, April 15 also marked the beginning of Sarah Lawrence College's 7th Annual Poetry Festival--the largest free poetry festival in all of New York state.

This year's theme: RADICAL TRUTHS.

Tonight, the festival launches its official welcome with several fantasmic poet readers [including Anis Mojgani and Matthea Harvey] and an alumni "mill & swill." Free booze. Behave yourselves.

For a complete schedule through Sunday, click here: http://bit.ly/cRVFYO

To get to Sarah Lawrence from the city, go to Grand Central. Take the Metro-North's Harlem line up to Bronxville. Free shuttles will be available at the Bronxville station to take you to the campus.

Please arrive prepared to change everything you thought you knew about life.

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We fill pre-existing forms and when
we fill them change them and are changed.

- Frank Bidart, from "Desire."

[Bidart reads at 8:30PM tomorrow with Khalil Murrell and Mark Strand]