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| Thursday, March 9, 2023 | |
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3:20 p.m. to 4:35 p.m. | |
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Rooms 338-339, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 3 |
T216. What lessons and hope can we take away from fictional depictions of historical youth activism? Authors of YA historical fiction discuss the youth activism of the 1989 Beijing Tiananmen Square protests, the post-WWII resistance of the Polish and Ukrainian people, and the resistance of Czech teens to the Soviet occupation during the cold war. They also discuss how these stories about youth-led resistance can inspire today's political protests. Download event outline and supplemental documents.Lyn Miller-Lachmann is the author of the YA novels Gringolandia, Rogue, and Torch and the coauthor (with Zetta Elliott) of the MG verse novel Moowalking. She translates picture books and graphic novels from Portuguese to English. She holds an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from VCFA. Twitter Username: LMillerLachmann Website: www.lynmillerlachmann.com Diana Ma is a Chinese American author of the Daughters of the Dynasty series. Her debut novel was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award in YA. She is a 2019 We Need Diverse Books mentee and has an MA in creative writing from UIC and is English faculty at North Seattle College. Twitter Username: DianaJunYiMa |
| Friday, March 10, 2023 | |
9:00 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. | |
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Rooms 347-348, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 3 |
F118. The poets in this panel refuse to allow for a singular definition for Latinx poetry. Rather, these artists and antiartists see the domain of Latinx poetry as fluid, constantly open for re-definition. Such broadening of our understanding helps to demand space for the expanding dimensions of Latinx heritage, beyond borders and inclusive of Afro, Trans, queer, and feminist Latinx identities. Such boundary shattering poetry is manifested on the page in a wide range of styles, forms, and techniques. Kenning (AKA Kenyatta) JP García is a performer, antipoet, humorist, and diarist. JP is the author of innovative diary collections such as OF (What Place Meant), Furthermore, and Slow Living. JP is also an organizer for the St Rocco's Reading Series and is an editor at Rigorous and Dream Pop Press. Twitter Username: kenningjpgarcia Daphne Maysonet is a Caribbean-American writer with poetry in Southern Indiana Review, Chautauqua, and The Acentos Review. She has read at the New Orleans and New York City Poetry Festivals. She received her MFA from the University of Memphis and is currently working on a collection of poetry. Raina J. León is cofounder and editor in chief of The Acentos Review, and the author of three poetry books: Canticle of Idols, Boogeyman Dawn, and sombra: (dis)locate. She is a member of the Cave Canem, CantoMundo, Macondo, and Carolina African American Writers Collective communities. Twitter Username: rainaleon Website: http://www.rainaleon.com Holnes is the author of Stepmotherland and Migrant Psalms; his poetry has appeared in Poetry, American Poetry Review, Callaloo, and elsewhere. He is the winner of the Andres Montoya Poetry Prize and others. He is an assistant professor for CUNY and he teaches at NYU. Victorio Reyes Asili is a PhD candidate in English at UAlbany and holds an MFA from VCFA. His poems have appeared in various publications, including: The Acentos Review, Pilgrimage magazine, Word Riot, Obsidian ,and the anthologies It Was Written, Black Lives Have Always Mattered, and Chorus. Twitter Username: ghettohippie Website: victorioreyes.blogspot.com |
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