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Reckoning with Anti-Asian Violence: Reshaping Our Narratives & Communities
Thursday, March 24, 2022
10:35 am to 11:50 am
In light of this year’s cultural reckoning with anti-Asian hate, how do we acknowledge both recent violence and longstanding history? How do we move forward in our writing practices and communities? This panel will focus on how we address racism, violence, and stereotypes through poetry and poetics—including lyric essay, ars poetica, and received forms—as a way to examine our indoctrination into racism, unlearn and heal from harmful ideologies, and reteach ourselves and our audiences.
Participants
Su Cho (PhD/MFA/BA) is the author of The Symmetry of Fish, which won the National Poetry Series, and is a visiting assistant professor at Franklin & Marshall College. She currently serves as consulting editor for Poetry Magazine after serving as guest editor.
Lisa Low's poems appear or are forthcoming in Colorado Review, Copper Nickel, Ecotone, the Iowa Review, Poetry Northwest, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the 2020 Gulf Coast Nonfiction Prize, an assistant editor at the Cincinnati Review, and a PhD student at the University of Cincinnati.
Danni Quintos is the author of Two Brown Dots, winner of the twentieth A. Poulin Jr. Prize, and Python, an ekphrastic chapbook. She is a Kentuckian, a mom, an educator, and an Affrilachian Poet. She received her BA from the Evergreen State College and her MFA in poetry from Indiana University.
Anni Liu is the author of the Lexi Rudnitsky Prize-winning poetry collection The Eye Trees. She edits at Graywolf Press, translates the contemporary Chinese poet Du Ya, and is working on a hybrid memoir about unbearable intimacies. You can find her online at anniliuwrites.wordpress.org.
