Indivisible reaches #1 Best Seller on Amazon!

Indivisible currently holds the #1 best seller spot on Amazon under Asian American poetry. Please help us get to the #1 spot of all Asian American books by buying your copy today! Tell all you friends, please.

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Video: Indivisible Launch at the Booksmith

Check out an amazing video/book trailer for Indivisible, filmed at our launch event for the anthology at The Booksmith in San Francisco earlier this month. Big props to Min Lee and Ann Bassette for putting this together for us.

Indivisible Launch at the Booksmith from New America Media on Vimeo.

Food at Saturday's Event!

Need some more reasons to go to Saturday's reading at the Mission Cultural Center in San Francisco? The Chai Cart and Zante's Pizza & Indian Cuisine will be providing us with food.

Indivisible on Apex Express Radio

Listen to Indivisible's co-editors on Apex Express ... we're the second segment, so go to around 25 minutes.

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Reading THIS SATURDAY at the Mission Cultural Center in San Francisco!

When: Saturday May 1st
Time: 7:30 - 10:30pm
Where: Mission Cultural Center, 2868 Mission Street, San Francisco

A night of readings from Indivisible will be featured at the 2010 United States of Asian America Festival at the Mission Cultural Center. Featured poets include Ravi Chandra, Shailja Patel and Maya Khosla and editors Summi Kaipa, Pireeni Sundaralingam and Neela Banerjee. Plus, a reception afterwards with drinks, snacks and beats from DJ Tablapusher. This will be the last SF event for Indivisible for awhile, so be sure to come check it out!

$5-$10 sliding scale admission, buy advance tickets here on Brown Paper Tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/106897

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Indivisible Makes Top 10 Book sellers List on Amazon!

At this hour, "Indivisible" holds the number 10 position on Amazon's top 10 sellers Asian American books!

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The Lantern Review Covers AWP Launch

Check it out! The Lantern Review blogged about Indivisible's panel at the AWP Launch!

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Dilruba Ahmed interview with The Collagist

Words from The Collagist:

Three of Dilruba Ahmed’s poems appear in the March 2010 issue of the Collagist. She is the author of Dhaka Dust (Graywolf, 2011), winner of the 2010 Bakeless Literary Prize for poetry, selected by Arthur Sze and awarded by the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Ahmed’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Cream City Review, New England Review, New Orleans Review, Drunken Boat, and Pebble Lake Review. Her work will also appear in the forthcoming anthology, Indivisible: Contemporary South Asian American Poetry (University of Arkansas Press, 2010).

Can you talk about the inspiration for “Venice During an Election Year in the U.S.,” “Cathedral,” and “Rumor”? What was on your mind while you were writing these poems?

“Venice” and “Cathedral” are based in part on my experiences backpacking through Europe with my husband. We traveled amidst the heightened anxieties about terrorism as well as anti-American and anti-Muslim sentiments–all the while feeling dismayed by the growing popularity of an incompetent leader who had most likely entered office by fraud. While none of this appears with any specificity in the poem, in Venice I found a landscape that seemed willing to house some of the disillusionment we’d been experiencing. 



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Video from the LA Launch Event featuring LA based poets & FIELD: Kitundu + Sukhadia

Photos from SF Launch!

Poet Tanuja Mehrothra (and daughter) and co-editor Neelanjana Banerjee sign books.















Poets Ravi Chandra and Swati Rana take a break from signing books.















Co-editor, Pireeni Sundaralingam signing books.















Co-editor, Summi Kaipa, looks a camera crew in the eye.













Praveen Madan of The Booksmith introduces Indivisible to a packed house at the launch. (Also includes good shot of the samosas donated by New Delhi Restaurant!)










Setting up for the launch: poet Ravi Chandra and editor Summi Kaipa

Ravi Chandra performs "iPad oGod" at SF Launch!

Ravi Chandra at SF Launch!

SF Examiner Article on "Indivisible"

On Saturday, April 3, at 7:30 pm, the editors and several contributing poets who are responsible for a wonderful new anthology, will appear at San Francisco’s Booksmith to celebrate the West Coast launch of Indivisible: An Anthology of South Asian American Poetry. Poet Yusef Kumunyakaa has described Indivisible as having a “seamless passion, held together by the will to cross borders and embrace that which is sacred in the individual.” This exciting and valuable contribution to American letters is the result of the hard work of three Bay Area women.

Click here to read the full article.

Summi and Neela on Blog Talk Radio

Co-editors Summi Kaipa and Neelanjana Banerjee -- along with Indivisible poet Tanu Mehrotra Wakefield -- on Blog Talk Radio Friday, April 2nd.

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Co-Editor Summi Kaipa Interview with SF Examiner

Credo: Author Summi Kaipa

By: Lisa Geduldig
Special to The Examiner
March 28, 2010

Summi Kaipa (Mike Koozmin/Special to The Examiner)

Summi Kaipa received a master in fine arts degree in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is the author of three chapbooks, small books of poems or stories. Kaipa served as a board member and literary curator for two San Francisco nonprofits, the Alliance of Emerging Creative Artists and New Langton Arts. She was the founder and editor of Interlope, a magazine featuring innovative writing by Asian Americans. She lives in Berkeley.

Read more at the San Francisco Examiner: http://www.sfexaminer.com/entertainment/Credo-Author-Summi-Kaipa-89249757.html#ixzz0lKWc82fh

Indivisible launches in April 2010!

Hi Everyone,
Just to let you know, our website is getting a makeover -- and we're soon to be found on Facebook and Twitter. In the meantime, for a description of the book and a chance to pre-order it before it hits the bookstores, please visit University of Arkansas Press or Amazon.com.

Hope to see you at our events soon!