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KyiMayKaung (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
Union Station, DC -- The Long View -- photo and blog comment copyright Kyi May Kaung. Stiglitz's credentials and wish to help are impeccable. In fact, it was I who first suggested behind the scenes in 2004 that he be invited to a closed door meeting in DC. However, it is unlikely that he or anyone can get the SPDC to trim its budget. The junta is committed to keeping itself in power which means...
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KyiMayKaung (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Snake's head -- sculpture by Alexander Calder, National Gallery DC -- photo Kyi May Kaung In response to Dr. Zarni's Beware the Generals' Election -- From William Butler Yeats -- The Circus Animals' Desertion Now that my ladder's gone, I must lie down where all the ladders start In the foul rag and bone shop of the heart. -- We have to get back to human rights. The abuses multiply and escalate....
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KyiMayKaung (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi with US delegation led by Kurt Campbell. Couple talking -- Giacommetti -- The Queen -- at National Gallery, DC -- photo Kyi May Kaung
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KyiMayKaung (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
... on her website http://joannegrowney.com. where you may order copies of her poetry collections. Kyi May Kaung is an award-winning poet whose poems have been featured in Norton’s Language for a New Century, Amnesty International and The New Internationalist’s Fire in the Soul, The Museum of American Poetics, Counterpunch, Glass, Poet Lore, Rattapallax, Poet's Attic and other publications....
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KyiMayKaung (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
http://wikileaks.org/leak/crs/RL33479.txt
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KyiMayKaung (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Window cleaner hanging by a thread -- photo copyright Kyi May Kaung re. article in Irrawaddy Oct 30, 2009, interview of Ambassador Hoffman. It all depends on the SPDC now -- if they continue to play the game the way they have always done, window dressing while continuing to pound on everyone, post 2010 will be worse than before 2010. So far the signs are not good, in spite of the sincerity of...
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KyiMayKaung (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
... the U.S. engagement policy was announced.) Will be in upcoming print edition of Dove magazine. Kyi May Kaung
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KyiMayKaung (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
Glads -- photo copyright Kyi May Kaung http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15377
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KyiMayKaung (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
Apples on home-made plate -- Photo and artwork copyright Kyi May Kaung http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/20757
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KyiMayKaung (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
... her eye." As a poet, artist and maker of wearable art myself, I know whereof I speak. Kyi May Kaung
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KyiMayKaung (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Free Burma Ranger who lost his life to malaria while helping other Karen villagers and his daughter -- photo from Free Burma Rangers. Talking heads at SAIS, DC Burma talk -- photo copyright Kyi May Kaung http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2009/nov/09/jim-hoagland-dissidents-missing-from-obamas/ This is indeed true and the panels at SAIS on Burma seemed stacked. It was hard even to find out...
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KyiMayKaung (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Offering food to monks -- photo copyright Kyi May Kaung Presiding monks offered "soon" (rice meal)- Photo copyright Kyi May Kaung Pathein Halwa made in America. Photo copyright Kyi May Kaung Sermon time followed by political speeches -- way to go in America -- photo copyright Kyi May Kaung Older Burmese ladies in America -- photo copyright Kyi May Kaung...
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KyiMayKaung (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/05/michelle-obama-visits-ene_n_347653.html I would love to see the Obamas host Aung San Suu Kyi for dinner, or go to see her. Imagine the dinner table conversation. Kyi May Kaung.
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KyiMayKaung (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Secret ingredient -- toasted peanuts in shell -- photo copyright Kyi May Kaung. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/dining/04iron.html'_r=2&ref=style Why don't we have the generals from Burma contest the US chefs in Kitchen Stadium? Let Burmese folks be the judges of what's good food. Aung San Suu Kyi, U Win Tin and U Tin Oo to be special judges. That way we can see how high tech they are...
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KyiMayKaung (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coco_Chanel No innocent she might have lived with a Nazi. Poem copyright Kyi May Kaung