The Asian American Literary Review, published biannually, features fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, translations, comic art, interviews, and book reviews.
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I will be livetweeting this amazing event on Thursday. I can't wait to hear @xtian_as read from her debut, she's always thrilling to witness. It's free to register, join us!
So excited for this! A reading and convo w/ the one and only @rawqeli <3 <3 <3 feat. readings by @HariAlluri @keanalabra 😍 i love my poet pinsans!!
Thursday, May 11 7:30CST/5:30PST
not sure what the overlord cens*rs these days so: l*nk in b*o
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Join us for an eco-poetry workshop I'll be teaching through Poets House!
poetshouse.org/event/craig-s…
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On September 30th I'm excited to launch WHALE ARIA and to celebrate THIS IS SALVAGED, 2pm at Petals and Pages! Also hear @Sarolee17 @RakshaVasudevan Diana Keren Lee, Komal Dhruv, and @vauhinivara (with ALL thanks to Mathangi Subramanian for organizing us!) Links to books below!
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Our free panel for AAPI writers on 9/9 will offer an inside look at book publicity. We'll speak with publicists across traditional & independent publishing houses: Glory Anne Plata (@glory_anne), @karenygu, Juliana Kiyan, and Jamie Knapp (@mcjays).
kundiman.org/publishing-pane…
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Check out our recap of Ghosted World: An Uncanceled Asian American Literature Festival. It was a weekend filled with celebration, protest, grief, and resistance against the Smithsonian's abrupt cancellation of the AALF.
kundiman.org/announcements/g…
ALT Ghosted World attendees at Literaoke, held at Busboys & Poets. Photo credit: Denaise Seals
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DC FRIENDS! We hope to see you at Ghosted World: An Uncanceled Asian American Literary Festival 🤍
AUG 4 / 9pm / Ghosted Literaoke @ Busboys & Poets
AUG 5 / 12-6pm / Quiet Healing Room & A Salon of Protest and Care @ The Eaton
AUG 6 / 7pm / Ghosts and Spirits @ Loyalty Books
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Don't forget to join us this Thursday at Arc Gallery and Studios as Truong Tran hosts an evening of poetry and the written word with the students of Interdisciplinary Writers Lab 2023! No cover. Register at eventbrite.com/e/an-evening-…
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Submit to @FrontierPoetry Roots and Roads Prize! I'm honored to be judging this contest. Bring us your ghosts, your maps, your homes, your alienations, your dreams of the future—lead us somewhere unexpected! Learn more: frontierpoetry.com/poetry-aw…
Katherine Bahena-Benítez who was a phenomenal open mic closer
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@xtian_as #WaterWeSwimIn
Do not ask me to go out if we're not eating food family style
Your sweet eyes search mine to see if I'm okay.
How about you muster up the courage & receive the love that you deserve?
Roxanne Lim, the amazing producer of this #WaterWeSwimIn @xtian_as
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This is what joy looks like:
palm to palm, radiant, mga Kalama.
Sing like every tomorrow is infinite,
each one of us a river, a rush, a dream
@xtian_as #WaterWeSwimIn
How many lives does a Filipino have to save before they are allowed to live? How many times have I said I'm so sorry for your loss in the past nine months, how many people have been sorry for my loss in the past nine months?
@xtian_as #WaterWeSwimIn
Militant women want to be touched too
We nurture, we fight, we become untouchable
History is not kind to militant women
@xtian_as #WaterWeSwimIn
I am tired of being thrown like a grenade
My head blown against the headboard
@xtian_as #WaterWeSwimIn
I rattle
Off the list from memory:
Wear black, comfortable shoes in case we have to run, layers
for weather,
water bottle in case she gets thirsty
pepper sprayed
@xtian_as #WaterWeSwimIn
They will come to the door in broad daylight because they can
They will ask who is home even if you have proof, a stamp
They will start a war in a country your kid will never learn about
What to do when ICE comes to your door by @xtian_as #WaterWeSwimIn
I don't underestimate
the massive risks I'm about to take
Push myself forward
Hold myself up
Here for a purpose
Make my own love
Summer Yuki
instagram.com/songsbysummer
@xtian_as #WaterWeSwimIn
Fuck your Imelda Marcos musical, my people are dying
My people sing when we march for freedom
Dana Ysabel on IG @/daikondana
@xtian_as #WaterWeSwimIn
Who can afford to love?
Believe in the canopies of our outstretched fingers
Outside a tree ring remembers our name
Dana Ysabel on IG @/daikondana
@xtian_as #WaterWeSwimIn