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The Asian American Writers' Workshop, in collaboration with Sham-e-Ali Nayeem, presents a special reading event to spread awareness about the terrifying and dangerous situation unfolding in India with the threat of fascism endangering the lives of many caste oppressed people, indigenous communities, and those from marginalized religions in India.
We are hoping to hold space for our community and also spread awareness about the genocide of Indian Muslims that is unfolding. We believe it will be a powerful act of resilience to ask ourselves: what role do writers and poets play in helping us find our way in a time of genocide? With poetry as our balm, we hope to resoundingly stand in solidarity with Muslims, Dalits, Christians, Sikhs, Adivasis and other marginalized communities in India impacted by state sanctioned violence.
Curated by Sham-e-Ali Nayeem, this reading will feature readings from: Sham-e-Ali Nayeem, Sanam Sheriff, Alexis Pauline Gumbs,
Yashica Dutt, Hala Alyan, Kazim Ali, Adeeba Shahid Talukder,
Bao Phi, Rajiv Mohabir, Seema Reza, Mahogany L. Browne,
Sahar Romani, Saymoukda Duangphouxay Vongsay,
Tina Zafreen Alam, Shadab Zeest Hashmi, Taiyo Na, Divya Victor, Cynthia Dewi Oka, Hawa Amin-Arsala, Tara Betts,
Zeyn Joukhadar, Fariha Róisín, Faisal Mohyuddin, Dilruba Ahmed, Tanaïs, Zeina Hashem Beck, Yalini Dream, Husnaa Hashim,
Arshia Haq, Ladan Osman, Tarfia Faizullah, Walidah Imarisha,
Turiya Autry, Thenmozhi Soundarajan, and Sonny Singh.
The Asian American Writers' Workshop, in collaboration with Sham-e-Ali Nayeem, presents a special reading event to spread awareness about the terrifying and dangerous situation unfolding in India with the threat of fascism endangering the lives of many caste oppressed people, indigenous communities, and those from marginalized religions in India.
We are hoping to hold space for our community and also spread awareness about the genocide of Indian Muslims that is unfolding. We believe it will be a powerful act of resilience to ask ourselves: what role do writers and poets play in helping us find our way in a time of genocide? With poetry as our balm, we hope to resoundingly stand in solidarity with Muslims, Dalits, Christians, Sikhs, Adivasis and other marginalized communities in India impacted by state sanctioned violence.
Curated by Sham-e-Ali Nayeem, this reading will feature readings from: Sham-e-Ali Nayeem, Sanam Sheriff, Alexis Pauline Gumbs,
Yashica Dutt, Hala Alyan, Kazim Ali, Adeeba Shahid Talukder,
Bao Phi, Rajiv Mohabir, Seema Reza, Mahogany L. Browne,
Sahar Romani, Saymoukda Duangphouxay Vongsay,
Tina Zafreen Alam, Shadab Zeest Hashmi, Taiyo Na, Divya Victor, Cynthia Dewi Oka, Hawa Amin-Arsala, Tara Betts,
Zeyn Joukhadar, Fariha Róisín, Faisal Mohyuddin, Dilruba Ahmed, Tanaïs, Zeina Hashem Beck, Yalini Dream, Husnaa Hashim,
Arshia Haq, Ladan Osman, Tarfia Faizullah, Walidah Imarisha,
Turiya Autry, Thenmozhi Soundarajan, and Sonny Singh.
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The Asian American Writers’ Workshop is thrilled to partner with the Asian American Literary Review and the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center to present a series of readings by Asian American poets from the BEST AMERICAN POETRY 2020 anthology, edited by Paisley Rekdal.
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AAWW is a national not-for-profit arts organization devoted to the creating, publishing, developing and disseminating of creative writing by Asian Americans–in other words, we’re the preeminent organization dedicated to the belief that Asian American stories deserve to be told.
We’re building the Asian literary culture of tomorrow through our curatorial platform, which includes our New York events series and our online editorial initiatives. In a time when China and India are on the rise, when immigration is a vital electoral issue, when the detention of Muslim Americans is a matter of common practice, we believe Asian American literature is vital to interpret our post-multicultural but not post-racial age. Our curatorial take is intellectual and alternative, pop cultural and highbrow, warm and artistically innovative, and vested in New York City communities.
Our curatorial platform is premised on the idea of a big-tent Asian American cultural pluralism. We’re interested in both the New York publishing industry and ethnic studies, the South Asian diasporic novel and the Asian American story of assimilation, high culture and pop culture, Lisa Lowe and Amar Chitra Katha, avant-garde poetry and spoken word, journalism and critical race theory, Midnight’s Children and Dictee. We are against both an exclusive literary culture that believes that race does not exist and Asian American narratives that lead to self-stereotyping and limit the menu of our identity. We are for inventing the future of Asian American literary culture. Named one of the top five Asian American groups nationally, covered by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and Poets & Writers, we are a safe community space and an anti-racist counterculture, incubating new ideas and interpretations of what it means to be both an American and a global citizen.")
