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"Memory that Pricks the Skin": Five Asian Women Poets Writing About History

Terrace Suite II, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 4
Friday, March 10, 2023
12:10 pm to 1:25 pm

 

Poetry is a vital genre for engaging with archive and reckoning with historical events that have been forgotten or ignored. In this panel, five Asian women poets explore how their work grapples with public and personal histories. Writing on a range of subjects—from war to colonization to ecological violence—these poets will read their work and discuss poetry as a space to challenge dominant narratives and find healing within reflection and documentation.



Outline & Supplemental Documents

Event Outline: AWP_Event_Memory_That_Pricks_the_Skin_Outline.pdf

Participants

Moderator:

Marianne Chan is the author of All Heathens, the winner of the 2021 GLCA New Writers Award in Poetry. Her poems have appeared in Kenyon Review, New England Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. She is currently a PhD student in English and creative writing at the University of Cincinnati.

Jessica Q. Stark is the author of Buffalo Girl and Savage Pageant, which was named one of the Best Poetry Books of 2020 in the Boston Globe and in Hyperallergic. Her poetry has appeared in Best American Poetry and others. She is a poetry editor for AGNI and the comics editor for Honey Literary.

Emily Jungmin Yoon is the author of A Cruelty Special to Our Species (Ecco|HarperCollins, 2018). She is the Abigail Rebecca Cohen Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Chicago and is the poetry editor for the Asian American Writers' Workshop.

Tiana Nobile

Cynthia Dewi Oka

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