Disrupt the Page! in Hawaii & Reading!
I'll be heading to Honolulu tomorrow for the Association for Asian American Studies Conference with fellow Kundiman poets, Tamiko Beyer, Soham Patel & Margaret Rhee! They'll be helping me with the fourth incarnation of my zuihitsu performance (and the first time I'm doing it with four voices!)
At the conference, we're leading what's shaping up to be a kick-ass roundtable about disrupting the Asian American literary canon:
“Disrupting the Page: Hybridity and Asian American Poetics”
Saturday 12 - 1:30 pm
Our proposed roundtable will trace some trajectories of contemporary poetics as they intersect with imbricated categories of race, gender, and sexuality. Attentive to US and diasphoric Asian Pacific Islander American feminist and queer perspectives, this group of emerging APIA women poets/critics/readers will open up a discussion about how hybridities found in current APIA poetry resist the notion of a homogenous APIA poetry and community. While APIA scholarship legitimizes poetry within the academic realm, it also forces the problematic creation of an APIA canon. We assert that disrupting canonical boundaries is crucial in incorporating voices from the edges. Therefore, this roundtable will interrogate the canon and the page as well as demonstrate hybrid voices in APIA poetry. Engaging with the conference theme, we hope to provide a collaborative space where we question inequalities through the lens(es) of contemporary APIA poetics.
Then, we're taking the disruption out of the conference and into the streets (well, at least into a bookstore - but it's a revolutionary bookstore!). Here's our little blurb about that:
Showcasing an exuberant range of voices and themes, "Disrupting the Page" features three emerging Asian American women poets at Revolution Books Honolulu.
Kundiman Fellows Tamiko Beyer, Ching-In Chen, and Soham Patel have performed their work across the country and have published widely. In daring and imaginative language, their writings celebrate the multifaceted Asian-American experience. Beyer, Chen and Patel's poems together investigate themes ranging from race, queer sexuality and gender to love, family, and the immigrant experience, from war to environmental destruction.
The reading also celebrates the recent release of Ching-In Chen's The Heart Traffic, a novel-in-poems chronicling the life of Xiaomei, an immigrant girl haunted by the death of her best friend. Told through a kaleidoscopic braid of stories, letters, and riddles, this stunning debut collection follows Xiaomei's life as she grows into her sexuality and searches for a way to deal with her complicated histories.
Disrupting the Page
Sunday, April 26
3 pm
Revolution Books
2626 S King St # 201, Honolulu
(808) 944-3106
Free (and free parking, too!)
Check out our Facebook event page to find out more and to RSVP: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=175718370301
At the conference, we're leading what's shaping up to be a kick-ass roundtable about disrupting the Asian American literary canon:
“Disrupting the Page: Hybridity and Asian American Poetics”
Saturday 12 - 1:30 pm
Our proposed roundtable will trace some trajectories of contemporary poetics as they intersect with imbricated categories of race, gender, and sexuality. Attentive to US and diasphoric Asian Pacific Islander American feminist and queer perspectives, this group of emerging APIA women poets/critics/readers will open up a discussion about how hybridities found in current APIA poetry resist the notion of a homogenous APIA poetry and community. While APIA scholarship legitimizes poetry within the academic realm, it also forces the problematic creation of an APIA canon. We assert that disrupting canonical boundaries is crucial in incorporating voices from the edges. Therefore, this roundtable will interrogate the canon and the page as well as demonstrate hybrid voices in APIA poetry. Engaging with the conference theme, we hope to provide a collaborative space where we question inequalities through the lens(es) of contemporary APIA poetics.
Then, we're taking the disruption out of the conference and into the streets (well, at least into a bookstore - but it's a revolutionary bookstore!). Here's our little blurb about that:
Showcasing an exuberant range of voices and themes, "Disrupting the Page" features three emerging Asian American women poets at Revolution Books Honolulu.
Kundiman Fellows Tamiko Beyer, Ching-In Chen, and Soham Patel have performed their work across the country and have published widely. In daring and imaginative language, their writings celebrate the multifaceted Asian-American experience. Beyer, Chen and Patel's poems together investigate themes ranging from race, queer sexuality and gender to love, family, and the immigrant experience, from war to environmental destruction.
The reading also celebrates the recent release of Ching-In Chen's The Heart Traffic, a novel-in-poems chronicling the life of Xiaomei, an immigrant girl haunted by the death of her best friend. Told through a kaleidoscopic braid of stories, letters, and riddles, this stunning debut collection follows Xiaomei's life as she grows into her sexuality and searches for a way to deal with her complicated histories.
Disrupting the Page
Sunday, April 26
3 pm
Revolution Books
2626 S King St # 201, Honolulu
(808) 944-3106
Free (and free parking, too!)
Check out our Facebook event page to find out more and to RSVP: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=175718370301