An Interview with Renee Tajima-Peña
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From 1981 to 1983, filmmaker Renee Tajima-Peña was the managing editor of Bridge: Asian American Perspectives, a magazine that ran from 1971 to 1985 and published an eclectic array of writing on Asian American culture and politics. Bridge was associated with the Basement Workshop, an influential Asian American arts and activist organization in New York City. In this interview, Stephanie Anderson talks with Tajima-Peña about Bridge, the Asian American movement, the relationship between film and literature, and more. The interview was conducted via email between November 2021 and July 2022. § SA: Perhaps we could begin by situating your work with Bridge in the context of the journal's history and the larger historical moment. How and when did you become involved with Bridge?
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Stephanie Anderson
Stephanie Anderson (she/they) is Assistant Professor of Literature & Creative Writing at Duke Kunshan University. Her research focuses on twentieth century poetry, small press publishing, and cultures of circulation. She is the author of three books of poetry, including If You Love Error So Love Zero (Trembling Pillow Press), as well as several chapbooks, most recently Bearings (DIAGRAM/New Michigan Press 2024). She is also the editor of a book of interviews, Women in Independent Publishing (forthcoming from the University of New Mexico Press in December 2024), and co-editor of All This Thinking: The Correspondence of Bernadette Mayer & Clark Coolidge (University of New Mexico Press). Her essays, poems, and interviews have recently appeared in Chicago Review, Fence Steaming, Gulf Coast, Post45, Textual Practice, Women's Studies, and elsewhere. She is finishing Dating the Poem, a study of calendrical poetics. You can read more of her work at www.octoberinapril.com.
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