Asian American Writers Workshop | Poetry in Protest: A Solidarity Reading @AAWWNYC | Uploaded May 2020 | Updated October 2024, 12 hours ago.
On May 27th, 2020 we hosted a powerful celebration of Asian American voices, featuring an acclaimed lineup of some of our community’s most prolific poets and spoken word artists.
Tune in for readings by:
Aria Aber • George Abraham • Kazim Ali • Hala Alyan • Regie Cabico
Marilyn Chin • Staceyann Chin • Franny Choi • Tarfia Faizullah • E.J. Koh
Emily Luan • Joseph O. Legaspi • Bao Phi • Bushra Rehman • Paisley Rekdal
Craig Santos Perez • Janice Lobo Sapigao • Monica Sok
Adeeba Shahid Talukder • Jenny Xie • Ishle Yi Park • Monica Youn
Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai • Jenny Zhang • Yanyi
This reading is taking place as part of a national day of solidarity, co-sponsored with our friends at PEN America.
The Asian American Writers’ Workshop and PEN America, alongside members of the global literary community, are holding a virtual day of solidarity to call out hate in all its heinous forms. We stand in support of Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander communities that have been targeted by rising hate and racism in recent months during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The virtual day of solidarity will feature a daylong schedule of free activities including workshops, poetry readings, and a teach-in to celebrate and engage a wide range of Asian and Asian American voices.
Click below for the complete schedule of events.
pen.org/event/united-against-hate-a-day-of-solidarity
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facebook.com/AsianAmericanWritersWorkshop
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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.
On May 27th, 2020 we hosted a powerful celebration of Asian American voices, featuring an acclaimed lineup of some of our community’s most prolific poets and spoken word artists.
Tune in for readings by:
Aria Aber • George Abraham • Kazim Ali • Hala Alyan • Regie Cabico
Marilyn Chin • Staceyann Chin • Franny Choi • Tarfia Faizullah • E.J. Koh
Emily Luan • Joseph O. Legaspi • Bao Phi • Bushra Rehman • Paisley Rekdal
Craig Santos Perez • Janice Lobo Sapigao • Monica Sok
Adeeba Shahid Talukder • Jenny Xie • Ishle Yi Park • Monica Youn
Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai • Jenny Zhang • Yanyi
This reading is taking place as part of a national day of solidarity, co-sponsored with our friends at PEN America.
The Asian American Writers’ Workshop and PEN America, alongside members of the global literary community, are holding a virtual day of solidarity to call out hate in all its heinous forms. We stand in support of Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander communities that have been targeted by rising hate and racism in recent months during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The virtual day of solidarity will feature a daylong schedule of free activities including workshops, poetry readings, and a teach-in to celebrate and engage a wide range of Asian and Asian American voices.
Click below for the complete schedule of events.
pen.org/event/united-against-hate-a-day-of-solidarity
--
aaww.org
facebook.com/AsianAmericanWritersWorkshop
twitter.com/aaww
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.
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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.
http://aaww.org
http://facebook.com/AsianAmericanWritersWorkshop
http://twitter.com/aaww
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.")
