This Orison Books anthology “offers many entry points into geography and history, into faith and spirit, and into language and poetry.” —Julie Wan
THE WORLD I LEAVE YOU: ASIAN AMERICAN POETS ON FAITH & SPIRIT is featured in our reading list for #APAHeritageMonth: www.orisonbooks.com/product-page...
Charles Valle’s debut collection focuses “on immigration, colonialism, and the death of the speaker’s infant daughter.”
PROOF OF STAKE: AN ELEGY is published by @fonografeditions.bsky.social & featured in our #APAHeritageMonth reading list: bookshop.org/p/books/proo...
CURB “maps our post-9/11 political landscape by locating the wounds of domestic terrorism at unacknowledged sites of racial and religious conflict across cities and suburbs of the United States.”
Nightboat Books poetry by Divya Victor for your #APAHeritageMonth: bookshop.org/p/books/curb...
“At the docks, after you were gone, I watched a fisherman gut a small gator gar with a serrated sandwich knife.”
Catherine Niu’s “Swamp” is featured in @cincinnatireview.bsky.social & our #APAHeritageMonth reading list: www.cincinnatireview.com/micro/micro-...
Anthony Sutton’s PARTICLES OF A STRANGER LIGHT is on our reading list for #APAHeritageMonth!
This Veliz Books poetry collection “employs a wide array of approaches and forms to obsessively dissect issues of memory, identity, culture, and history.” www.velizbooks.com/authors#/par...
Craig Santos Perez’s HABITAT THRESHOLD “explores his ancestry as a native Pacific Islander, the ecological plight of his homeland, and his fears for the future.”
Read this @omnidawn.bsky.social poetry collection! #APAHeritageMonth bookshop.org/p/books/habi...
The train leaves without a word. Tonight,
each tender valley clenches into your chest.
I have been on my knees so long…
Bella Zhou’s “Hu Tianbao, God of Rabbits,” featured in @anotherchicagomag.bsky.social & our #APAHeritageMonth reading list: anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/02/20/t...
In this book of lyric, documentary, and epistolary poems published by @prairie-schooner.bsky.social, Susan Nguyen “sheds light on the intersections of girlhood and diaspora” in a small American town.
Order DEAR DIASPORA here! #APAHeritageMonth bookshop.org/p/books/dear...
Dipika Mukherjee’s poems are “incantations to our connections to the human family ... and focus on what is most resilient in ourselves and our communities.”
DIALECT OF DISTANT HARBORS (@cavankerrypress.bsky.social) is on our reading list for #APAHeritageMonth: cavankerrypress.org/products/dia...
you’ve told me this before
you’ve told me this before
you’ve told me this before
you’ve told me this before…
—Addie Tsai’s “But I repeat myself.” in @manyworlds.place & our #APAHeritageMonth reading list: manyworlds.place/issue-4/addi...
“I listen to elite law firm attorneys speak of students from lesser schools or lower grades, and a look of disdain crosses their faces...”
—Esther Ra’s “the best & the brightest,” in @doesithavepockets.bsky.social & our reading list for #APAHeritageMonth: www.doesithavepockets.com/cnf/esther-ra
“With Tehran’s November breeze running through the pores of my skin, I took my spot in line alongside other first graders in the school’s cobblestone yard.”
Read Siavash Saadlou’s essay “My Mom Told Me” in @southeastreview.bsky.social for #APAHeritageMonth: www.southeastreview.org/single-post/...
According to Jenny Boully, this collection “clutches close the realms of memory, dream, and imagination.”
Read Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint’s THE END OF PERIL, THE END OF ENMITY, THE END OF STRIFE, A HAVEN (@noemipress.bsky.social)! #APAHeritageMonth www.noemipress.org/catalog/pros...
Esther Lin’s COLD THIEF PLACE speaks of “the experiences of an undocumented American” and “her parents who fled Communist China and found safety in fundamentalist Christianity.”
@alicejamesbooks.bsky.social poetry for #APAHeritageMonth: bookshop.org/p/books/cold...
“In African elephant and certain whale populations, the age and health of the oldest female is an important indicator of the well-being of the youngest animals in the herd.”
Read Seema Reza’s essay “Light Multiplies” in @adimagazine.bsky.social! #APAHeritageMonth adimagazine.com/articles/lig...
I ASK ABOUT WHAT FALLS AWAY is “an extended elegy set in the alleyways and Pacific-bound boulevards of San Diego, California during the current global health crisis.”
This Kaya Press poetry collection by Jason Magabo Perez is on our reading list for #APAHeritageMonth! bookshop.org/p/books/i-as...
Wang Ping’s poetry collection, published by @hangingloosepress.bsky.social, is a “song for the plight and pride of immigrants around the globe.”
Order your copy of MY NAME IS IMMIGRANT today! #APAHeritageMonth www.hangingloosepress.com/book/my-name...
Norma Wong’s WHEN NO THING WORKS features “spiritual and community lessons for embracing collective care, co-creating sustainable worlds, and responsibly meeting uncertain futures.”
Nonfiction from @natlanticbooks.bsky.social for #APAHeritageMonth: bookshop.org/p/books/when...
Mai Der Vang’s newest collection “examines the saola’s relationship to Hmong refugee identity and cosmology and a shared sense of exile, precarity, privacy, and survival.”
PRIMORDIAL (@graywolfpress.bsky.social) is on our reading list for #APAHeritageMonth: bookshop.org/p/books/prim...
The poems in C. Dale Young’s collection “explore the author’s simultaneous embrace of mortality’s richness and resignation to death’s inevitable decay.”
BUILDING THE PERFECT ANIMAL is a newly launched collection from @fourwaybooks.bsky.social! #APAHeritageMonth bookshop.org/p/books/buil...
Order your copy of WE THE GATHERED HEAT from @haymarketbooks.org this #APAHeritageMonth!
This intergenerational anthology features poets who “challenge, expand, and illuminate the meaning of the label ‘Asian American and Pacific Islander’ in today’s world.” bookshop.org/p/books/we-t...
INSTRUMENT (@fonografeditions.bsky.social) is on our reading list for #APAHeritageMonth!
Dao Strom’s collection “is an experiment in multimodal poetics—inhabiting a synergistic blend of poetry, music, and visual art: the artist’s three forms of ‘voice.’” bookshop.org/p/books/inst...
Every time I lived in a foreign country, it was the touch of my people I missed.
Fragrant warmth of my mamma’s rice-scented flesh…
Read Esther Ra’s “Skinship” in @kitchentableqtrly.bsky.social this #APAHeritageMonth: www.kitchentablequarterly.org/esther-ra-sk...
It’s true New York must always follow Shanghai. A wide river
exchanging hands with the drowned valley.
—“Serial” by Mimi Yang, published in @anmlymag.bsky.social and featured in our #APAHeritageMonth reading list: anmly.org/ap38/mimi-ya...
Jessica Q. Stark’s poetry collection “recounts the history of the defunct zoo, Jungleland, which housed Hollywood’s show animals up until its closure in 1969.”
Order your copy of SAVAGE PAGEANT from Birds, LLC! #APAHeritageMonth www.birdsllc.com/catalog/sava...
Be sure to check out MĀNOA’s New CHamoru Literature issue!
This 2023 issue introduces readers to “the vibrancy of CHamoru literature, culture, histories, migrations, politics, memories, traumas, and dreams.” #APAHeritageMonth uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/new-ch...
Brandon Shimoda’s HYDRA MEDUSA is “a book of poetry, dreams and speculative talks, collected from the psychic detritus of living in the US-Mexico borderlands.”
A @nightboatbooks collection for #APAHeritageMonth: nightboat.org/book/hydra-m...
Paisley Rekdal’s hybrid collection of poems and essays “draws a powerful, necessary connection between the railroad’s completion and the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882–1943).”
WEST (@coppercanyonpress.bsky.social) is featured on our reading list for #APAHeritageMonth: bookshop.org/p/books/west...
Kaya Press’s new edition of Lois-Ann Yamanaka’s BLU’S HANGING is forthcoming this June! This edition includes an interview with Yamanaka “along with a contextualizing afterword by Asian American scholar Khuê Ninh.”
Find it here! #APAHeritageMonth bookshop.org/p/books/blu-...
“Disabled people aren’t supposed to be anywhere—let alone the woods—having a great time, as evinced by the tiny blonde girl who screams as I speed by...”
Read Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha’s “Adaptive Joy” in @orionmagazine.bsky.social this #APAHeritageMonth: orionmagazine.org/article/adap...
