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Creative Politics, Political Poetics: Asian American Literary Activism
Saturday, March 26, 2022
3:20 pm to 4:35 pm
Our discussion room will explore literary activism, art and community-building, and literary and academic change-making through five different vantages. In particular, we will share Asian American approaches to crossracial organizing, improvisational pedagogies, neurodiversity, and literary activism in and beyond the academy. We will include examples, generative writing, and somatic and embodied activities for participants to engage, interact, and create so we move toward liberation collectively.
This virtual discussion room will take place live and will not be recorded for on-demand viewing.
Participants
Purvi Shah's favorite art practices are her sparkly eyeshadow and raucous laughter. Terrain Tracks and Miracle Marks, her poetry books, explore gender and racial equity. At the tenth anniversary of 9/11, she led Together We Are New York, a community poetry project to highlight Asian American voices.
Cathy Linh Che is the author of the poetry collection Split, winner of the Kundiman Poetry Prize, the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America, and the Best Poetry Book Award from the Association of Asian American Studies.
Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis, PhD, is founding director of the arts nonprofit Asian American Literary Review and coeditor in chief of its critically acclaimed literary journal. He is also a curator for the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center.
Sejal Shah writes across genres and dances in her study in Western New York. Her debut essay collection, This Is One Way to Dance, was named an NPR Best Book of 2020 and selected as a finalist for the 2021 CLMP Firecracker Award in Creative Nonfiction.
Ching-In Chen is author of The Heart's Traffic, recombinant, to make black paper sing, Kundiman for Kin and coeditor of The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence within Activist Communities. They are part of Kundiman, Lambda, Watering Hole, Macondo, and VONA communities.
