Sweet Beans and Rice: Investigating a Chino-Latino Future
In partnership with Intersection for the Arts. http://www.theintersection.org/calendar/index.php?op=view&id=3964 From May through August, Vickie Vertiz and I are co-curating an online treasure hunt documenting the ways Asians and Latinos have been, are, and will be intersecting. As the fastest growing “minorities” in the United States, we wonder what kinds of mixtures, interactions, and alliances our communities are creating. We invite everyone to become our field agents—what ways do you see these communities intersecting? Submit your photos, stories, recipes, videos, and anything else to our online living archive of the “Chino-Latino Future.”... Read The Rest →
APA Heritage Month Update, and How to Respond to an 800 Year Old Poem
This Asian Pacific American Heritage Month has been a busy one so far for me. For the week of May 1-7, I guest curated a wonderful series of posts on the Best American Poetry blog about Asian and Pacific Islander American poetry. Many thanks to everyone at The Best American Poetry for the opportunity, and to Patricia Y. Ikeda, Iris A. Law (Lantern Review), Barbara Jane Reyes (Doveglion Press), and Gerald Maa (Asian American Literary Review) for collaborating with me on it. You can read those posts here: May 1, May 2, May... Read The Rest →
