Parakeet poem -- translated by W. S. Merwin

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/20398

Thinking of Daw Suu.

"The ones who talk best have their own cages."

Burmese nuclear threat becomes more credible -- Suu Kyi's "sentencing" is postponed till Aug 11

http://www.smh.com.au/world/burmax2019s-nuclear-secrets-20090731-e4fv.html?page=-1

Honoring Daw Suu on eve of her "sentencing" in kangaroo trial -

Bird (starling) caught in an airport -- Photo Copyright Kyi May Kaung

A picture speaks a thousand words.

Free Aung San Suu Kyi demonstration in NY today -- Thursday July 30.

Free Aung San Suu Kyi "Arrest yourself" T-shirt from US Campaign for Burma -- photo Kyi May Kaung.

Urgent: Free Daw Aung San Suu Kyi - Protest Thursday at 4:30P

Thursday, July 30, 2009 9:42 AM

Please Spread The Words!!!

Dear all,

As you all know, SPDC's judges are set to announce the verdict for Daw Aung San Suu Kyi this Friday. We are hoping for positive result but not likely. Thus, we call on you, everyone, to join us tomorrow (today), Thursday, protest at the SPDC Mission to UN, in New York.

Let us all not wait until Friday for the junta to announce their illegal verdict on Burma's democratic leader. This is our last minute request made to Burma's junta for freedom and safety of our leader before it amounts to world's pressure.

Where ever you are...let us all join hands in spirit by protesting at the embassies of SPDC worldwide or any where appropriate for the release of Burma's 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.

If you are in New York City please join us as scheduled below.


When: Thursday, July 30 at 4:30PM

Where: SPDC Mission to U.N.
10 East 77th Street
New York, NY 10021

Should you have any questions please contact - 646-643-8689, 917-797-2134


Best,
Moe Chan

Naomi Lazard -- nothing lost in translation --

Refugee Mural in Silver Spring, MD -- Photo copyright Kyi May Kaung.

Naomi Lazard is a wonderful, sensitive translator and poet.

When reading her translations of Faiz Ahmad Faiz, I feel just as if I am reading the original.

Same is true of Maureen Freely who translates Orhan Pamuk's books, and

Howard Goldblatt, who translates from the Chinese.

Would that everyone could find such wonderful translators.

Kyi May Kaung.

Burma prepares to import onions -- story from Irrawaddy.

Well, well, they can import onions, they have an estimated $5 b reserve from natural gas sales.

This story is typical of Burma's command economy.

Kyi May Kaung.

Anna Akhmatova -- Russian poet of the 1920s and 30s

Note posted to Wom_Po (Women Poets)

Thanks for posting.

I can relate to her, as Soviet purges, conducted by Josef Stalin, were so similar to what is happening now in Burma.

Yes, who is the best translator is very important.

I much prefer the first version -- "and God in fact did not save us" by Stanley Kunitz and Max Hayward.

If I remember right, Max Hayward is a famous professor of Russian literature.

I think he came to a book launch in about 1994 to the University of Pennsylvania, where Yevtushenko also came to launch the bilingual anthology of Russian poetry, that Jackie O. helped to facilitate.

I remember it because Yevtushenko asked about Aung San Suu Kyi.

Kyi May Kaung

Burmese foreign minister flounders in Phuket.

http://www.irrawaddy.org/opinion_story.php?art_id=16387

Like the way you used f-s and f sounds in Phuket, Yeni.

"found himself floundering, fending off diplomatic pressures and fielding press conference questions"

Flounders are fish that swim flat on their belly.

SPDC delegates deserve to go from frying pan into the fire.

Kyi May Kaung.

Abstracts made by computer color mixer at Home Depot

http://www.craftstylish.com/item/47933/the-relentless-urge-to-create-the-work-of-earl-joseph-martell

How to make a papier mache brooch like Michele Obama's

http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2009/05/papier-mache_floral_brooches.html

Sufi poets meet in Morocco --

http://completeword.wordpress.com/2009/07/22/guest-of-king-muhammad-vi-of-morocco/

The Poetry Circus -- from the Hudson Review

http://www.hudsonreview.com/masonSp07.pdf

Event today July 19 - Gravity Dancers book launch --

at Politics and Prose, DC.

http://events.nbcwashington.com/washington-dc/events/show/87789223-richard-peabody-and-contributors

Beautiful writing -- from short stories, Lost In Uttar Pradesh -- by Evan Connell.

NPR -- Alan Cheuse's top picks.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97536391

Writing in America -- as seen from across the pond --

http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=10877

I don't think American writers have it easy unless they are in academia, do you?

Kyi May Kaung

Australian think tank warns of Jakarta blast a day ahead

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090717/ap_on_re_as/as_indonesia_explosions

The Burmese generals have said in the past that they favored Indonesian style "guided democracy."

A "transition meeting" was allegedly planned in Jakarta.

A writer bakes --

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/04/29/ST2008042901998.html?sid=ST2008042901998

NPR on Suu Kyi trial

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106457944

Ten high ranking Burmese army officers held over N.Korea tunnel building leaks.

http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=16341

Comment I left on Irrawaddy site -- opposition says Ban should make sure 2010 is free and fair

NLD is absolutely right.

UN should not keep talking as if 2010 "election" is OK.

Do we forget so fast about referendum in 08 (last year) held while country was reeling under Cyclone Nargis?

UN is responsible -- even before 08 it kept talking (and promoting) 2010 as if it were legitimate.

Why does everyone have so much trouble calling it the farce it is?

Copyright Kyi May Kaung.