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About Me

Ok, you can find this out about me on the Internet anyway --ching-in. poemsender. a loudmouth organizer hoping for liberation. sometimes bridge, sometimes islanderdweller. daughter. lover. sister. karaoke singer. budding filmmaker. a sunrise. lover of the thrift store. keeper of secrets, scraps and misplaced beauty.lastly, i am moving through saturn's return like a lightning bolt. up until recently, i was fixated on the chaos in my life, but now it's starting to make sense to me. i'm finding out who i am & who i'm about & loving it and feeling like i'm in a good & cherished space & the universe is meeting me where i'm at (synchronicity!).
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My Interests

the art of making soup & other comfort food ~ the art of making a good poem ~ synchronicity ~ dim sum ~ dumplings ~ good coffee & boba tea ~ hot pot ~ sparkly & lovely things ~ things that regenerate, like starfish and hearts (i hope) ~ rice pudding & other sweet things ~ what it means to be Asian American ~ futbol ~ building community ~ how to survive (with) your family ~ polyamory ~ coffeeshops ~ how to be a better person ~ meditation ~ writing as a spiritual practice ~ queerness ~ friendships

I'd like to meet:

who i'm supposed to meet ... 3rd world artists ... anti-imperialist futbollers ... krazy karaoke singers ... wonderful socially just peoples who are also taking care of themselves right ~~ you know who you are .... people who make yummy food & can feed me:-){I'm finding it really hard to keep up with the people I actually know & I use this to keep up with people I know. So unless you're somebody I'd likely want to know or know in real life, I probably won't add you. See the above paragraph for those I would like to know in real life:-) Also, if we've never met in person, it would be nice to hear why you want to be my friend, an introduction, get a poem, you know, that sort of thing.)

Music:

on rotation this week: as always, PRINCE ~ Blue Scholars ~ Goapele ~ Mystic ~ Meshell ~ Erykah ~ Mary J ~ Kiwi ~ Floetry ~ India Arie ~ Jean Grae ~ the coup .... oh, i'm missing my karaoke right now!

Movies:

The last movies I watched: Sadly, I have not watched any movies in the last month. Too much moving around.

Television:

This is what I watch when I'm procrastinating. Grey's Anatomy ~~~ Lost ~~~ Heroes

Books:

50 non-poetry book challenge + 50 poetry book challenge! (look back in my blog for the list!).... i love suggestions if you have any, i'm keeping a list:-)

Heroes:

Yuri Kochiyama ~~~ Grace Lee Boggs ~~~ Suheir Hammad ~~~ June Jordan ~~~ Audre Lorde ~~~ Chrystos ~~~

My Blog

my poem, Tale, has found a home in CRATE

My poem, Tale, has found a home in CRATE, UC Riverside's MFA Literary Magazine. You can order a copy at: http://crate.ucr.edu/ or I can get copies for $10).I took it as another sign from the uni...
Posted by Ching-In on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 08:44:00 PST

a red dress called scandal:-)

I am more and more convinced I am following the path I am supposed to be following.Things I was reminded of that I don't miss --** long, boring or contentious meetings** weird, awkward "community" dra...
Posted by Ching-In on Fri, 08 Jun 2007 10:28:00 PST

2 kinds of people

Hate me if you must, but I am convinced there are two types of people in the world:The Packers and the Non-PackersI have never met anybody in the middle.I of course, am a Non-Packer.I avoid packing un...
Posted by Ching-In on Thu, 24 May 2007 10:33:00 PST

The 4th National APIA Spoken Word & Poetry Summit, Aug 3-5, 2007

The 4th National APIA Spoken Word & Poetry Summit, "first there was the word, then there was the fist," will be moved from New Orleans to NYC, August 3-5, 2007.There will be an official announceme...
Posted by Ching-In on Sun, 20 May 2007 09:48:00 PST

this week's recipe

* 1 more trip to the Vernon Super Buffet with Dad* 1 more Chinatown bus trip* 1 conference call* 1 happy phone call telling me I won the scholarship competition for the Writers Conferences & Cente...
Posted by Ching-In on Sun, 20 May 2007 09:28:00 PST

some wishes for my last full day here

1. a river visit!2. lasting sunshine3. no hiding ticks or biting ants4. calming down my perfectionist/supercritical self -- no pressure!5. reading some poems6. open heart to receive feedback//discerni...
Posted by Ching-In on Mon, 14 May 2007 07:47:00 PST

down to the wire .... pressure produces the first draft!

The other resident and I gave each other deadlines yesterday to look at each other's manuscripts, which resulted in a 15-hour straight-through power writing (4 new poems!) & revising session birth...
Posted by Ching-In on Mon, 14 May 2007 04:06:00 PST

After Virginia Tech poem in New Verse News

hello friendlies,My poem, After Virginia Tech, is up at New Verse News, newversenews.com, a site which publishes poetry on current events:-)xoxo,
Posted by Ching-In on Wed, 09 May 2007 09:42:00 PST

xiaomei reaching 50!

After much hemming & hawing, ekeing out of reluctant words, thrashing & throwing tigers, we've had ....--- a fieldtrip to the other residency in town (this one has an environmental park & ...
Posted by Ching-In on Wed, 09 May 2007 05:33:00 PST

what passes for a saturday night in connecticut

Marilyn took us on another field trip, today to the free day at the Florence Griswold Museum, which used to be the first artist's colony in the area for painters. We walked around the old rooms ...
Posted by Ching-In on Sun, 06 May 2007 07:27:00 PST