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Schema interviewsPaolo Javier | Snare the O Bo(e)mbs! | Vancouver | November 21
Think poetry readings are dull? Meet PAOLO JAVIER. This poet was born in Las Pinas, and is now based in Brooklyn, NY. His writing has been called "hip, sexy, energetic." The author of several books, he edits the very urban online site 2nd Ave Poetry.
In a review of Javier's the time at the end of this writing, Barbara Jane Reyes writes,
This Original Brown Boy has given us a lovely and fierce collection of poems that dismantle how ethnic writers in North America are expected to write. It's about time.
More: Snare the O Bo(e)mbs! | Wednesday, November 21, 2007 | Free
Spartacus Books | 319 West Hastings, 2nd Floor | Vancouver | 7:30 - 10:30 pm
Featuring Paolo Javier, ryan fitzpatrick, Natalie Zina Walschots
Hosted by disjunct! performance series (more info HERE)
Excerpt from the time at the end of this writing:
It's 825 pm &
the name as it appears on my death certificate
Paolo Rafael Santos Javier.
That's PJ to you if you're K.O.,
Pao to my kamag-anak in Toronto,
Lu Pao if you're Papa,
Paowie if you're Tita Eva, &
always Kuya, of course
to Eric & Patricia.
Rene—pare, if you can hear me, talaga
pogi pricks my ears up.
But if it's you, Cacay, hollering, then
by all means, please holla
pangit, MB, or, even better, OBB—
yours alone & short for the
Original Brown Boy.
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