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The Rule Is, Do Not Stop: A Filipino Literary Symposium (Part 1 of 2)

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Opening Keynote: Thea Quiray Tagle
Revisiting Al Robles and the Kearny Street Workshop Poets
Speakers: Tony Robles, Shirley Ancheta, and Jason Bayani
Part 1 reflects on the legacy of Al Robles, Kearny Street Workshop poets and the fight for the International Hotel.
THEA QUIRAY TAGLE, PhD is a writer, scholar, teacher and curator interested in investigating the intersections between socially engaged art and site-specific performance; visual cultures of violence; urban redevelopment schemes; and grassroots responses to political crises across multiple scales. She recently curated two shows, AFTER LIFE (what remains) and Queer Value, for The Alice Gallery in Seattle, WA.
SHIRLEY ANCHETA co-edited the Filipino American poetry collection, Without Names (Kearny Street Workshop Press, 1985). Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies and journals. She is the widow of poet Jeff Tagami. She makes her home in Santa Cruz, CA.
JASON BAYANI is a Kundiman fellow and a veteran of the National Poetry Slam scene whose work has been published in World Literature Today, Fourteen Hills, Muzzle Magazine, Mascara Review, and other publications. As a member of 7 National Poetry Slam teams, he’s been a National Poetry Slam finalist and represented Oakland at the International World Poetry Slam. His first book, Amulet, was published by Write Bloody Press, and second book, Locus, is forthcoming in Spring 2019 from Omnidawn Publishing. He is currently the artistic director for Kearny Street Workshop.
TONY ROBLES is born and raised in San Francisco, and has written multiple books, including children's book Lakas and the Manilatown Fish (2003), Cool Don't Live Here No More: A Letter to San Francisco (2015) and Fingerprints of a Hungerstrike (2017).
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