{"id":38750,"date":"2014-12-08T20:44:42","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T20:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=38750"},"modified":"2014-12-08T20:44:42","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T20:44:42","slug":"2014-national-poetry-month-poem-of-the-day-fred-wah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=38750","title":{"rendered":"2014 National Poetry Month Poem of the Day: Fred Wah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turnstonepress.com\/national-poetry-month\/2014-national-poetry-month-fred-wah.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>2014 National Poetry Month Poem of the Day: Fred Wah<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turnstonepress.com\" target=\"_blank\">Turnstone Press<\/a><br \/>\nWinnipeg, Manitoba, Canada<br \/>\n2014-04-16<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWaiting for Saskatchewan,\u201d the title poem for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=38599\" target=\"_blank\">book<\/a>, arose out of an event that occurred in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nelson,_British_Columbia\" target=\"_blank\">Nelson, BC<\/a> on a winter night in the early \u201980s. We had been anticipating an exhibition of art from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saskatchewan\" target=\"_blank\">Saskatchewan<\/a> about to open at a local art gallery when we were advised that the show would be delayed due to heavy snows over <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kootenay_Pass\" target=\"_blank\">Kootenay Pass<\/a>, preventing delivery of the art. So I took the poetic hint and used the phrase to meditate on my own historically tethered relationship to Saskatchewan, a place that held, for me, the complications of a mixed-race family history and the geographical site for an Asian-European intersection, a kind of hyphen that I have used to construct a personal imaginary. The poem is a biotext that offers the space to measure the accumulation of particularities and apprehensions, dreams, and memory. The poem is one way to remember the future.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fredwah.org\/?page_id=28\" target=\"_blank\">Fred Wah<\/a> on \u201cWaiting for Saskatchewan\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Waiting for Saskatchewan<br \/>\nand the origins grandparents countries places converged<br \/>\neurope asia railroads carpenters nailed grain elevators<br \/>\nSwift Current my grandmother in her house<br \/>\nhe built on the street&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire poem <a href=\"http:\/\/www.turnstonepress.com\/national-poetry-month\/2014-national-poetry-month-fred-wah.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2014 National Poetry Month Poem of the Day: Fred Wah Turnstone Press Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada 2014-04-16 \u201cWaiting for Saskatchewan,\u201d the title poem for the book, arose out of an event that occurred in Nelson, BC on a winter night in the early \u201980s. We had been anticipating an exhibition of art from Saskatchewan about to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,19,8],"tags":[8386,2721,18559],"class_list":["post-38750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-canada","category-media-archive","tag-fred-wah","tag-saskatchewan","tag-turnstone-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}