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May 9, 2023
Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month

“I Want the Wide American Earth” by Carlos Bulosan
“So Chinese Girl” by Dorothy Chan
“Barbie Chang Got Her Hair Done” by Victoria Chang
“The Good Provider” by Sarah Gambito
“How Music Stays in the Body” by Lee Herrick 
“Seawall soliloquy number two: she built a seawall” by Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner
“The Gift of India” by Sarojini Naidu
“By Your Hand” by Haʻåni Lucia Falo San Nicolas
“Kumulipo” by Queen Liliʻuokalani
“ojha: rituals” by Raena Shirali
“Study of Two Figures (Pasiphaë/Sado)” by Monica Youn

Writing from the Absence: Voices of Hmong American Poets


In honor of Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month, revisit this feature curated by Mai Der Vang—a five-part series that highlights a small community of Hmong American poets whose voices enrich and bring greater diversity to the literary landscape of this country. Read these poems, as well as discussions surrounding their work.
 
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“Poetry is food for the heart and soul. When it’s present at the table it better enables us to fully experience something outside ourselves, while simultaneously learning more deeply about who we are or who we want to be—individually and collectively.”

Read an interview with Crystal Wilkinson, 2022 Poet Laureate Fellow, on her project in Kentucky. Read more about Wilkinson, including poems, on Poets.org: 

“Asking About My Mother”
“Witness”
“Motherland”
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Hieu Minh Nguyen
“I use poems as a tool of inquiry.”

This month’s Guest Editor, Hieu Minh Nguyen, is the author of Not Here (Coffee House Press, 2018). The recipient of fellowships from the Poetry Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, Nguyen is a lecturer at Stanford University. Read and listen to a Q&A with Nguyen about his Poem-a-Day curatorial approach, and enjoy a selection of poems from Poets.org: 

“The Study”
“I Want Nothing”
“Type II”
 
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 #PoetryNearYou Pick of the Week

Featuring forty events with more than one hundred writers from twenty-seven countries, the PEN America World Voices Festival celebrates great writing and the power of storytelling against the current headwinds of attacks by those who seek to censor and silence. Wednesday, May 10, through Saturday, May 13, around New York and Los Angeles. Purchase tickets here. (Sponsored)
 
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Deadline Approaching

Submissions will close next week, Monday, May 15, at 11:59 p.m. EDT, for the 2023 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize & James Laughlin Award. The Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize recognizes the most outstanding book of poetry published in 2023. The James Laughlin Award is given to a second book of poetry forthcoming in 2024.
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Revisit last week’s Poem-a-Day selections with us on Poets.org:

April 30: “[The ringèd moon sits eerily]” by William Faulkner
May 1: “Poem” by Sandra Lim
May 2: “In the House With No Doors” by Sarah Kay
May 3:  “Dirtbag” by Leigh Lucas
May 4: “Wanting a Child” by Jay Deshpande
May 5: “Self-Portrait as Lilith” by Elizabeth Acevedo
May 6: “Though from Here I Can’t Smell the Smoke” by Allison Hutchcraft
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