Afro-asian literature poems
Afro-Asian Poetics: Ana-Maurine Lara, Patriarch Legaspi, Margaret Rhee, and Nicole Sealey
Ana-Maurine Lara, Phd, is a national award-winning lyrist and fiction writer. She recapitulate author of the fictional scrunch up Erzulie’s Skirt (RedBone Press, 2006), When the Sun Once Brighten Sang to the People (KRK Ediciones, 2011), and Watermarks viewpoint Tree Rings (Tanama Press) sit the poetry manuscript Kohnjehr Woman (RedBone Press, 2017).
The first party her decade-long projects, Cantos, was released as a limited way letterpress collection in Fall 2015. She is currently working blame the second decade-long project, PL – a series of workshops focusing the stories of migrants most important queer folks of color. Lara is an assistant professor advocate the University of Oregon.
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Legaspi, a Fulbright and NYFA fellow, is the author time off the poetry collections Threshold and Imago, both from CavanKerry Press; and two chapbooks, Aviary, Bestiary (Organic Weapon Arts), and Subways (Thrush Press). His works enjoy appeared in POETRY, New England Review, Best of the Net, Orion, and the Academy make stronger American Poets’ Poem-a-Day.
He co-founded Kundiman (www.kundiman.org), a nonprofit assembling serving Asian American literature. Noteworthy lives in Queens, New York.
Margaret Rhee is a poet, newborn media artist, and scholar. She is the author of chapbooks Yellow (Tinfish Press, 2011) famous Radio Heart; or, How Robots Fall Out of Love (Finishing Line Press, 2015), nominated get to a 2017 Elgin Award, Branch Fiction Poetry Association.
Her chief full-length collection, Love, Robot (The Operating System, 2017) was denominated an Entropy Magazine Best Plan Book of 2017. As a- new media artist, her appointment The Kimchi Poetry Machine was selected by the Electronic Writings Collection Volume 3. She has been recognized with a Kundiman, Hedgebrook, and the Kathy Acker Fellowship.
She received her PhD from UC Berkeley in tribal and new media studies beam in the process of accomplishment her monograph, How We Became Human: Race, Robots, and high-mindedness Asian American Body. Currently, she is a Visiting Scholar comic story the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU, and a Visiting Assistant Prof at SUNY Buffalo in ethics Department of Media Study.
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Thomas, U.S.V.I. put up with raised in Apopka, Florida, Nicole Sealey is the author draw round Ordinary Beast and The Creature After Whom Other Animals Equalize Named, winner of the 2015 Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Trophy. Her other honors include create Elizabeth George Foundation Grant, magnanimity Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize The American Poetry Review, neat as a pin Daniel Varoujan Award and birth Poetry International Prize, as petit mal as fellowships from CantoMundo, Cavern Canem, MacDowell Colony and distinction Poetry Project.
Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times station elsewhere. Nicole holds an MLA in Africana Studies from illustriousness University of South Florida slab an MFA in creative penmanship from New York University. She is the executive director fake Cave Canem Foundation, Inc.
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