I first met Jigyasa Labroo in 2016 at the National Youth Poetry Slam in Bengaluru. She was shepherding a group of twelve children, who snaked in and out of the…
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Contemporaries Essays, Exit Page: The Gen X-Y-Z of Global Spoken Word Poetry
Contemporaries Essays, Exit Page: The Gen X-Y-Z of Global Spoken Word Poetry
Cartography of Care: On Mentorship and “Post” Pandemic Poetics
Arrivals I am writing this on a July afternoon in a Las Vegas coffee shop, windows and doors closed to the dry neon hum. I imagine that somewhere on the Strip…
Contemporaries Essays, Exit Page: The Gen X-Y-Z of Global Spoken Word Poetry
Introducing Exit Page: The Gen-X-Y-Z of Global Spoken Word Poetry
We all know of it, and we all have engaged with it, whether knowingly or begrudgingly, in open mics or while doomscrolling on social media. Traditional poetry critics call it…
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How to Live Safely in a Disheartening World: Asian American #PlantMoms in the Post-Pandemic Digital Age
“This, then, is my choice: I can allow the events of my life to happen to me. Or I can take those very same actions and make them my own….
Asian American Mass Culture, Contemporaries Essays
Model Minority Militarism: Figuring the Invincible Alien/Asian
Mark Greyson, a pubescent mixed-Korean American boy, gazes up at his white father, Nolan, as they sit together on the roof of their house. “Okay, Son, bear with me,” Nolan…
Asian American Mass Culture, Contemporaries Essays
The Violent World-Remaking of Anti-Colonial Asian North American Fantasy
Over the last decade, fantasy novels by Asian North American writers have consistently appeared on bestseller lists for both adult and YA fiction, won prestigious awards, and achieved their own…