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Asian Diasporic Poets Writing into Mythology

Virtual
Thursday, March 24, 2022
10:35 am to 11:35 am

 

Each of the poets on this panel uses mythology as a centering device in their own writing. Each poet will begin by reading one or two poems. We will then explore questions such as: What is the mythic? What is the value of writing through and alongside mythology for Asian diasporic poets? How can poetic myth and mythmaking serve as productive scaffolding and sites of new narrative possibilities? How does myth allow poets to access intergenerational, cultural, and communal discourses?



Outline & Supplemental Documents

Event Outline: AWP_OUTLINE__Asian_Diasporic_Poets_Writing_Into_Mythology.pdf

Participants

Moderator:

Jasmine An is the author of two chapbooks of poetry: Naming the No-Name Woman and Monkey Was Here. She has been awarded residencies at Hedgebrook and Willapa Bay AiR. Poetry editor for Agape Editions, she is pursuing a PhD in women’s studies and English at the University of Michigan.

Maria Isabelle Carlos is a writer from Missouri. A graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill and the MFA program at Vanderbilt University, she is the assistant nonfiction editor of Zone 3 Press and the editor of Inch, a quarterly series of microchapbooks from Bull City Press. Read more at www.mariaisabellecarlos.com

Lo Kwa Mei-en is the author of Yearling and The Bees Make Money in the Lion. She works in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Nandini Dhar is a bilingual poet who writes in English and her native language, Bangla. She is the author of three books, one in English, and two in Bangla—Historians of Redundant Moments), Jitakshara), and Ma-Rupak Khelchhi Na.

Carlina Duan is the author of Alien Miss and I Wore My Blackest Hair. She received her MFA in poetry from Vanderbilt University and she is currently a PhD student in the Joint Program in English and Education at the University of Michigan.

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