everything is/air/is/argument (the chorus said)/as I slept/in the desert//
service on the cell went dead/I said/jocasta always hangs herself
Seeing state terror and resistance in Alyx Ayn Arumpac’s new documentary on Duterte’s extrajudicial killings
“Indonesian literature is gaining traction. More slowly than we might want, but it’s an upward trajectory.”
At this / moment there are more than two dozen / revolutions occurring around the globe in / Chile, Lebanon, Hong Kong, France, Sudan.
“It’s a time to fight and a time to take care of ourselves.”
A regular round-up of AAWW digital programming to keep you company at home.
The author of Days of Distraction on microaggressions in fiction and writing confrontation through fragments
The poet and winner of the Restless Books’ New Immigrant Writing Prize on supporting DRUM and the work of Guyanese poet Martin Carter
“The ecology and economy of the region is under threat. This Transpacific Literary Project folio, Monsoon Notebook is for these essential, vanishing, and unruly waters.”
Build for money, swim for money, plastic money. For the / love of never sinking. Sunk cost, efficiency bots. With best / with best invest.
Young Asian Americans hit the streets to link arms supporting Black Lives Matter
“I would see thousands of people streaming from their officetels to Gangnam station, all very young, very self-possessed, very confident. I was imagining how everyone living in these officetels is very far from home.”
“As I was writing these poems, I felt that friendship was a constant thing I was returning to.”
This little ocean has a way / of submerging everything behind its mask. And Lam, / it has swallowed you whole and I could do / nothing.
When my harabeoji died / last spring I thought I’d move to California, convert / to Catholicism, kneel beside my halmeoni at early Mass // become student of those hundred and three / Korean saints though I can’t name more than one.
From the crop fields in the 1900s to modern-day hospitals, the history of Filipinos in the U.S. is a story of survival and resistance.
“This book is labeled historical, but it is a reimagining. It is surreal.”
Seeing state terror and resistance in Alyx Ayn Arumpac’s new documentary on Duterte’s extrajudicial killings
“The ecology and economy of the region is under threat. This Transpacific Literary Project folio, Monsoon Notebook is for these essential, vanishing, and unruly waters.”
“Indonesian literature is gaining traction. More slowly than we might want, but it’s an upward trajectory.”
Build for money, swim for money, plastic money. For the / love of never sinking. Sunk cost, efficiency bots. With best / with best invest.
Young Asian Americans hit the streets to link arms supporting Black Lives Matter
“I would see thousands of people streaming from their officetels to Gangnam station, all very young, very self-possessed, very confident. I was imagining how everyone living in these officetels is very far from home.”
At this / moment there are more than two dozen / revolutions occurring around the globe in / Chile, Lebanon, Hong Kong, France, Sudan.
“It’s a time to fight and a time to take care of ourselves.”
“As I was writing these poems, I felt that friendship was a constant thing I was returning to.”
A regular round-up of AAWW digital programming to keep you company at home.
This little ocean has a way / of submerging everything behind its mask. And Lam, / it has swallowed you whole and I could do / nothing.
The author of Days of Distraction on microaggressions in fiction and writing confrontation through fragments
When my harabeoji died / last spring I thought I’d move to California, convert / to Catholicism, kneel beside my halmeoni at early Mass // become student of those hundred and three / Korean saints though I can’t name more than one.
The poet and winner of the Restless Books’ New Immigrant Writing Prize on supporting DRUM and the work of Guyanese poet Martin Carter
From the crop fields in the 1900s to modern-day hospitals, the history of Filipinos in the U.S. is a story of survival and resistance.
“This book is labeled historical, but it is a reimagining. It is surreal.”