Rose Nguyen’s essay “Beyond ‘Hate’: Evading the Carceral Trap of Asian American Grievance” (@thedrift-mag.bsky.social) is on our reading list for #APAHM!
“To mark the one-year anniversary of the March 2021 Atlanta spa shootings that left eight people dead…” www.thedriftmag.com/beyond-hate/
“Are you hapa? He lets the question seep in, like late rain in dry soil. He knows the answer to the question, yet he is unable to articulate the sentiment.”
Read “Aimai-sa” by Tony Wallin-Sato, featured in @anotherchicagomag.bsky.social! #APAHM anotherchicagomagazine.net/2024/08/08/a...
“I once met a man on the train to Harbin. He was my age, just past his prime, hair starting to grease and thin in a way one might have thought passably distinguished…”
—Asako Serizawa’s “Train to Harbin,” from @hudsonreview.bsky.social & our #APAHM reading list: hudsonreview.com/2014/11/trai...
Add SURVIVED BY: AN ATLAS OF DISAPPEARANCE (@hostpublications.bsky.social) to your reading list!
Stephanie Niu’s chapbook “animates extinct, endangered, and recovering species of Christmas Island, a remote Australian territory, through visual poems.” #APAHM hostpublications.com/collections/...
Lo Kwa Mei-en’s THE BEES MAKE MONEY IN THE LION is on our reading list for #APAHM!
This collection from the CSU Poetry Center is “a journey across a dizzying landscape of immigrants and androids, of alien romance and elegies,” according to Timothy Yu. www.csupoetrycenter.com/books/the-be...
"Interracial and international women’s networking and dialogues to form pan-Pacific feminism encouraged racial and national harmony."—Rumi Yasutake buff.ly/spSFHTm #APAHM #AANHPIHeritageMonth
Sophia Terazawa’s novel-in-verse tells the story of “an obscure Roman goddess who re-imagines herself as an assassin coming to terms with an emerging performance artist identity in the late-20th century.”
TETRA NOVA is out now from @deepvellum.bsky.social! #APAHM bookshop.org/p/books/tetr...
In THE ANCHORED WORLD, Jasmine Sawers “invents a hybrid folklore for liminal characters who live between the lines and within the creases of race and language, culture and gender, sexuality and ability.”
Short stories from @rosemetalpress.bsky.social for #APAHM: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
#HBOutoftheBox: #kidlit + #yalit reviews, articles + interviews for Asian American, Native Hawaiian + Pacific Islander Heritage Month #AANHPIHeritageMonth #AANHPIMonth #AANHPI #AANHPIHM www.hbook.com/story/asian-... #AsianPacificAmericanHeritageMonth #AAPIHeritageMonth #APAHM #AAPI #APAHeritageMonth
In Iraq,
after a thousand and one nights,
someone will talk to someone else.
Markets will open
for regular customers.
—“The Iraqi Nights, Section 7” by Dunya Mikhail (trans. by Kareem James Abu-Zeid in @splitthisrock.bsky.social & featured in our #APAHM list): www.splitthisrock.org/poetry-datab...
In CUTTING TIME WITH A KNIFE, Michael Leong “redefines the space-time of the page as a furnace of pure imagination, where the cadaver of modernist poetics is smelted with black humor.” — Andrew Joron
Black Square Editions poetry to read this #APAHM: www.blacksquareeditions.org/books/p/cutt...
Drawing of Vincent Chin, young Chinese American man - with flowers in background
Remembering Vincent Chin who should be 70 years old today.
Learn more about the story of Vincent and the ongoing movement for justice and the fight against anti-Asian hate in this handbook from the Vincent Chin Institute
www.vincentchin.org/legacy-guide
#APAHM
happens because the weather man says
it will be a very wet, very windy night.
Before nightfall, we nail wooden planks
over our eyes…
Susan L. Lin’s “What Happens Behind Boarded Windows,” featured in @doesithavepockets.bsky.social & our #APAHM reading list: www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/susan...
"Let us learn to celebrate not only the dizzying array of cultural backgrounds that Asian Americans bring to to the U.S. but also the multiplicity of paths they develop in becoming American"—Vishakha N. Desai buff.ly/oTsGKAr #APAHM @Columbia
If you're looking to celebrate Asian American Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Heritage Month around the city, we've got you covered. Here are some upcoming events that celebrate this time. #APAHM billypenn.com/2025/05/14/a...
Black and white photograph of a man with glasses
“Those who knew Mr. Won Pat know that he was not a giant of a man in stature, but he was a giant of a man in accomplishments…. He was a common man, but a common man with an uncommon touch.” Delegate Blaz on Antonio "Tony" Won Pat of Guam. #APAHM loom.ly/8iIiXHM
In THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF H. LAN THAO LAM, Lana Lin resurrects Gertrude Stein’s THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ALICE B. TOKLAS “to tell a different story of queer love, life, and artistic collaboration.”
Add this forthcoming @dorothyproject.bsky.social book to your TBR! #APAHM www.nyrb.com/products/the...
The eight essays in BLACK AVATAR reflect Amit Majmudar’s “comprehensive studies of American, European, and Indian traditions, as well as his experiences in both suburban Ohio and the western Indian state of Gujarat.”
An @acrebooks.bsky.social collection for #APAHM: acre-books.com/titles/black...
Today for #APAHM we are featuring Zarina!
Zarina was born in Aligarh, India, traveled the world for her studies, and moved to New York in 1999. In her art, she explored geographical and social borders, migration, and the concept of home. Learn more at her website: www.zarina.work
May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month! Today, we would like to honor Mabel Ping-Hua Lee, the 1st Chinese woman to earn a PhD from Columbia. She fought for universal suffrage even though the Chinese Exclusion Act would block her from benefiting from it. #APAHM
What role did Chinese residents of Hawai‘i play in the U.S. reimagining of Hawai‘i? Find out it this guest blog post by Nancy E. Riley, author of CHINATOWN, HONOLULU. buff.ly/kpbItDd #APAHM #AANHPIHeritageMonth