Asian American Writers Workshop | We Have Lived This Ending Before with Dr. Khairani Barokka & Dr. Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio @AAWWNYC | Uploaded May 2021 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
This May, the Asian American Writers’ Workshop joins the Poetry Coalition, a vital national alliance of more than 25 independent poetry organizations, in curating a program exploring the theme “It is burning./ It is dreaming./ It is waking up.: Poetry & Environmental Justice.” The line “It is burning./ It is dreaming./ It is waking up.” is from the poem “Map” by Linda Hogan.
AAWW will engage with the urgent topic of environmental justice/injustice, alongside poet-activists Dr. Khairani Barokka and Dr. Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio. Dr. Khairani Barokka is a poet, writer, and artist whose work untangles colonial legacies of violence on the land, and Dr. Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio is a poet, scholar, and activist whose art and activism revives radical indigenous theories. Together, they will speak to Indonesian and Hawaiian craft and oral traditions, ancestral and communal resistance, and the way the land and the body holds and stands against legacies of colonial violence.
The title of this event, ‘We have lived this ending before’ is from Dr. Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio’s poem, “Notes on Surviving the End of the world, Again.”
This event will be streamed live on the Asian American Writers’ Workshop YouTube page. This program is supported by the Academy of American Poets with funds from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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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.
This May, the Asian American Writers’ Workshop joins the Poetry Coalition, a vital national alliance of more than 25 independent poetry organizations, in curating a program exploring the theme “It is burning./ It is dreaming./ It is waking up.: Poetry & Environmental Justice.” The line “It is burning./ It is dreaming./ It is waking up.” is from the poem “Map” by Linda Hogan.
AAWW will engage with the urgent topic of environmental justice/injustice, alongside poet-activists Dr. Khairani Barokka and Dr. Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio. Dr. Khairani Barokka is a poet, writer, and artist whose work untangles colonial legacies of violence on the land, and Dr. Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio is a poet, scholar, and activist whose art and activism revives radical indigenous theories. Together, they will speak to Indonesian and Hawaiian craft and oral traditions, ancestral and communal resistance, and the way the land and the body holds and stands against legacies of colonial violence.
The title of this event, ‘We have lived this ending before’ is from Dr. Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio’s poem, “Notes on Surviving the End of the world, Again.”
This event will be streamed live on the Asian American Writers’ Workshop YouTube page. This program is supported by the Academy of American Poets with funds from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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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.
