About
For my poetry/writing/visual art blog, go to Prau.
Okir or okkil, is an indigenous, organic flowering and branching motif used in the Philippines and in other Southeast Asian countries. It is applied to textiles, woodcarvings (house beams, gravemarkers), and metal engravings such as those found on the Philippine kris. Think of rainforests and fractals.
photo by Michael Fink
Books:
Prau (a book of poetry)
The Aching Vicinities (poetry chapbook)
The First Hay(na)ku Anthology, and
The Hay(na)ku Anthology Vol. II (both edited w/Mark Young, published by Meritage Press).
Location: Central Coast California
Job: Editor/writer, researcher, and sometime teacher
Dog: Gracie
Dessert: Cherries and whipped cream
Ice Cream: Ginger Walnut Spice from Ici (Berkeley)
Dinner: Adobo w/rice and raw tomatoes on the side; green mangoes w/bagoong (Filipino); anything Italian or Greek; anything Mexican sans cheese.
Bird: Great-Eared Philippine Nightjar
Dance: hokey pokey
September 26, 2006 at 6:30 pm
Jean,
How are you?
Meanwhile, you might enjoy looking at this:
http://karrikokko.blogspot.com/2006/09/first-marquee-haynaku-anthology.html
My best,
Karri
September 27, 2006 at 2:57 am
Greetings, Jean!
Thought I would reciprocate, sorry, several years later! I see you have settled in on a fine blog. Thanks, btw for your comment… remember?
http://homepage.mac.com/photomorphose/selection.html
Bogartte
October 22, 2006 at 9:40 pm
One day you and I must dance the hokey pokey. It is my favorite dance, too.
October 22, 2006 at 11:53 pm
Well, I think we’ve already done the poetry version of the hokey pokey. But we can do the other kind, too. ; )) You should fly out here and do a reading some time…We can put you up at the Beat Hotel (north).
November 19, 2006 at 2:20 am
Hi Jean,
My emails to you keep bouncing. Not sure why. Hope it’s okay to contact you this way, instead.
Hope you’re doing well. PingPong is creeping toward the
printer, and I was told by my managing editor we need to
know two things from you, both regarding the images in your
submission: 1) Do they belong to you? or do we need to
seek permission from anyone else? 2) Do you have any “hi
res” versions of the images. Dan assures me you’ll know
what this means, even though I’m not entirely clear.
Also, I’m not sure if we have a bio from you. If you sent
one, then ignore this. I’m on a friend’s computer. and
don’t have access to my lists.
Best,
Jim Maughn
November 19, 2006 at 2:53 am
Hi Jim:
Sorry about the problem you’ve had getting in touch with me.
Jeez, I can’t even remember what images I sent you. What are they?
Try writing to me at okir2k@gmail.com
If it bounces back, contact me through comments again…
J
November 19, 2006 at 3:10 am
P.S. Jim. You can use this for my bio:
Location: Central Coast California
Job: Editor/writer, sometime teacher
Dog: Gracie
Desserts: Chocolate truffle cake & rice pudding gelato
Dinner: Philippine Adobo w/rice and raw tomatoes on the side; green mangoes w/bagoong; anything Italian or Greek; anything Mexican sans cheese.
Bird: Great-Eared Philippine Nightjar
Dance: hokey pokey
Published: in Moria, Fugacity, Otoliths, and numerous anthologies including Bay Poetics, Pinoy Poetics and Babaylan. Co-Editor with Mark Young of the First Hay(na)ku Anthology, and the Second Hay(na)ku Anthology, forthcoming 2007. My chapbook is The Aching Vicinities.
May 16, 2007 at 3:11 pm
Hi Jean,
It was great to meet you last week at the Writing Center – I wish we had more of an opportunity to talk. Everyone is always so busy this close to the end of the semester, so I don’t know when you, Jesse, and I can get together.
I know you will be working on your own projects, but let’s make it a point of not losing track of each other, OK? It is important to me that you are involved in the Visiting Authors Series.
Talk to you soon!
Barbara
November 20, 2008 at 4:55 am
Hey, Jean!
Fun meeting you at APE a few weeks back. I enjoyed perusing your blog and I want to write you a note but the email keeps bouncing back. Shoot me an email….