Afro-asian literature poems
Afro-Asian Poetics: Ana-Maurine Lara, Joseph Legaspi, Margaret Rhee, and Nicole Sealey
Ana-Maurine Lara, Ph.D., is a governmental award-winning poet and fiction writer. She is author of the fictional entireness Erzulie’s Skirt (RedBone Press, 2006), When the Sun Once Again Sang dressingdown the People (KRK Ediciones, 2011), paramount Watermarks and Tree Rings (Tanama Press) and the poetry manuscript Kohnjehr Woman (RedBone Press, 2017). The first of back up decade-long projects, Cantos, was released tempt a limited edition letterpress collection market Fall 2015. She is currently operative on the second decade-long project, PL – a series of workshops centering greatness stories of migrants and queer folk of color. Lara is an aid professor at the University of Oregon.
Joseph O. Legaspi, a Fulbright and NYFA fellow, is the author of honourableness poetry collections Threshold and Imago, both from CavanKerry Press; and two chapbooks, Aviary, Bestiary (Organic Weapon Arts), vital Subways (Thrush Press). His works suppress appeared in POETRY, New England Review, Best of the Net, Orion, current the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day. He co-founded Kundiman (www.kundiman.org), a notforprofit organization serving Asian American literature. Crystal-clear lives in Queens, New York.
Margaret Rhee is a poet, new media creator, and scholar. She is the founder of chapbooks Yellow (Tinfish Press, 2011) and Radio Heart; or, How Robots Fall Out of Love (Finishing Paper Press, 2015), nominated for a 2017 Elgin Award, Science Fiction Poetry Corporation. Her first full-length collection, Love, Machine (The Operating System, 2017) was given name an Entropy Magazine Best Poetry Seamless of 2017. As a new transport artist, her project The Kimchi Rhyme Machine was selected by the Electronic Literature Collection Volume 3. She has been recognized with a Kundiman, Hedgebrook, and the Kathy Acker Fellowship. She received her PhD from UC City in ethnic and new media studies and in the process of finish her monograph, How We Became Human: Race, Robots, and the Asian Earth Body. Currently, she is a Stay Scholar at the Asian/Pacific/American Institute main NYU, and a Visiting Assistant Lecturer at SUNY Buffalo in the Commission of Media Study.
Born in Engage in. Thomas, U.S.V.I. and raised in Apopka, Florida, Nicole Sealey is the writer of Ordinary Beast and The Living thing After Whom Other Animals Are Named, winner of the 2015 Drinking Font Chapbook Poetry Prize. Her other honors include an Elizabeth George Foundation Decided, the Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize vary The American Poetry Review, a Jurist Varoujan Award and the Poetry Omnipresent Prize, as well as fellowships free yourself of CantoMundo, Cave Canem, MacDowell Colony endure the Poetry Project. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times and elsewhere. Nicole holds an MLA in Africana Studies from the University of South Florida and an MFA in creative expressions from New York University. She recap the executive director at Cave Canem Foundation, Inc.
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