Chrysanthemum Literary Society
2012 18th Avenue South
Seattle, WA 98144-4324
Nooknoow@aol.com
(206) 329 - 5566
April 4, 2010
Professor Marcellus J. Leonard
English Department, UIS
Dear Professor Leonard:
I am Koon Woon, a first year student in the LNT program at UIS, UIN 668956879. What I am writing to you about, sir, is to ask you whether you can spare the time to be on my MA degree committee.
I find, sir, that your expertise and experiences are exactly what I would like to emulate in terms of creative writing, teaching, and publishing.
I am a China-born, Chinese American 62 years in age. I am a published (international) poet. My full-length book is The Truth in Rented Rooms, from Kaya, NY, NY, 1998, which won the Pen Oakland Award and was a finalist in the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. My book of poems has been used as a text to teach poetry at several universities and colleges, including Sarah Lawrence, UC, Santa Cruz, Bard College, and Pacific Lutheran University. You can find some of my work and reviews of my work online simply by Googling “Koon Woon” poetry.
I have founded Goldfish Press in Seattle, which has published a poetry magazine Chrysanthemum, and several chapbooks and two full-length books and an anthology since 1990.
I have a blog created for my LNT 501 class with Dr. William Kline online at http://clsseattle.blogspot.com/
I think, sir, that your instructions and encouragements are exactly what I need to obtain an MA degree of my own design that focuses on writing as well as publishing that is multicultural and philosophical in the sense of understanding and creating our identities.
I would appreciate very much, Professor Leonard, if you can drop me an email as to your availability. I have been published in dozens of magazines in the US as well as abroad. I have been an ardent advocate
of literature in Seattle since the 1980’s. I believe that you will be able to help me do more literature for the sake of literature and world peace. To this end, I have formed an S-corporation and a Charitable Nonprofit Organization in the State of Washington that can do any kind of legal business. I am eager to learn from you, Dr. Leonard. Should you wish to have any of the publications I referred to above, I will send them promptly to you for inspection and criticism. I hope we can cooperate for mutual benefits as well as to benefit posterity.
Here is my contact information:
Kwoon2@uis.edu
Nooknoow@aol.com
(206) 329 – 5566 (home phone)
(206) 445 – 2071 (cell phone)
2012 18th Ave. South
Seattle, WA 98144-4324
Thank you kindly,
(signed) Koon Woon
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Chrysanthemum Literary Society
2012 18th Avenue South
Seattle, WA 98144-4324
Nooknoow@aol.com
(206) 329 - 5566
April 4, 2010
Professor Lan Dong
English Department, UIS
Dear Professor Dong:
I am Koon Woon, a first year student in the LNT program at UIS, UIN 668956879. What I am writing to you about, Professor Dong, is to ask you whether you can spare the time to be on my MA degree committee.
I find, Professor Dong, that your expertise and experiences are exactly what I would like to emulate in terms of creative writing, teaching, and publishing of the Asian American experience.
I am a China-born, Chinese American 62 years in age. I am a published (international) poet. My full-length book is The Truth in Rented Rooms, from Kaya, NY, NY, 1998, which won the Pen Oakland Award and was a finalist in the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. My book of poems has been used as a text to teach poetry at several universities and colleges, including Sarah Lawrence, UC, Santa Cruz, Bard College, and Pacific Lutheran University. You can find some of my work and reviews of my work online simply by Googling “Koon Woon” poetry.
I have founded Goldfish Press in Seattle, which has published a poetry magazine Chrysanthemum, and several chapbooks and two full-length books and an anthology since 1990.
I have a blog created for my LNT 501 class with Dr. William Kline online at http://clsseattle.blogspot.com/
I think, Professor Dong, that your instructions and encouragements are exactly what I need to obtain an MA degree of my own design that focuses on writing as well as publishing that is multicultural and philosophical in the sense of understanding and creating our identities. I, in particular, have lived in Seattle Chinatown for almost 3 decades and I have lived in SF Chinatown as well, and I still speak the Cantonese and the Toishanese dialects. My forebears have been in America since the mid 1800s. It is their and my heritage that I am proud of and wish to explore within the realm of the total American experience.
I would appreciate very much, Professor Dong, if you can drop me an email as to your availability. I have been published in dozens of magazines in the US as well as abroad. I have been an ardent advocate
of literature in Seattle since the 1980’s. I believe that you will be able to help me do more literature for the sake of literature and world peace. To this end, I have formed an S-corporation and a Charitable Nonprofit Organization in the State of Washington that can do any kind of legal business. I am eager to learn from you, Dr. Dong. Should you wish to have any of the publications I referred to above, I will send them promptly to you for inspection and criticism. I hope we can cooperate for mutual benefits as well as to benefit posterity.
Here is my contact information:
Kwoon2@uis.edu
Nooknoow@aol.com
(206) 329 – 5566 (home phone)
(206) 445 – 2071 (cell phone)
2012 18th Ave. South
Seattle, WA 98144-4324
Thank you kindly,
(signed) Koon Woon
