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They Rise Like a Wave: An Anthology of Asian American Women Poets

Rooms 328-329, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 3
Friday, March 10, 2023
9:00 am to 10:15 am

 

Blue Oak Press celebrates the publication of They Rise Like a Wave: An Anthology of Asian American Women Poets, which explores the depth and diversity of contemporary work by Asian American women and nonbinary poets. It provides an artifact of the range of responses to both personal and political forces, including the Trump presidency, the COVID pandemic, and the recent rise in anti-Asian violence. Panelists will speak to the evolving stakes of what it means to write as an Asian American poet.



Outline & Supplemental Documents

Event Outline: Event_Outline_3.pdf

Participants

Moderator:

Christine Kitano is the author of the poetry collections Sky Country and Birds of Paradise and coeditor of They Rise Like a Wave: An Anthology of Asian American Women Poets. She teaches at Stony Brook University and in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.

Alycia Pirmohamed is a Canadian-born poet based in Scotland and the author of Another Way to Split Water (YesYes Books). She received an MFA from the University of Oregon, a PhD from the University of Edinburgh, and she currently teaches in the MSt. creative writing program at the University of Cambridge.

Paul Tran is the author of the debut poetry collection, All the Flowers Kneeling, from Penguin in the US and the UK. They are an assistant professor of English and Asian American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Manahil Bandukwala is a writer and visual artist. A coordinating editor for Arc Poetry Magazine, she is digital content editor for Canthius. She is a member of Ottawa-based collaborative writing group VII. Her debut poetry collection is Monument, is out with Brick Books in 2022.

Sarah Audsley—an adoptee born in South Korea and raised in rural Vermont—is a graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and a member of The Starlings Collective. She lives and works in Johnson, Vermont, where she is the writing program manager at Vermont Studio Center.

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