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Celebrating over 30 years of amplifying Asian American & Asian diasporic literature to mobilize for a more just future. Subscribe → http://eepurl.com/gNlHV1 ✨🍉 aaww.org

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New York Southeast Asia Network (NYSEAN) @nysean.bsky.social · 8d

Our History Brings Us Here: A Reading and Conversation with Rhoni Blankenhorn, Luisa Igloria, and Michelle Peñaloza | @aaww-nyc.bsky.social

Date: October 8, 2025 | 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM ET

Type/Location: Virtual

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Asian American Writers' Workshop @aaww-nyc.bsky.social · 11d

"I know something about the nation from the way/ it resembles a body that could split another body."

Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "With these crows for hands, I caress a flower" by Yunkyo Moon-Kim, in #TheMargins. 🐦‍⬛🌷

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With these crows for hands, I caress a flower

The body of wings breeds a body of wings

Asian American Writers' Workshop @aaww-nyc.bsky.social · 17d

"Today I long for your sand-white shore, the crash of tides against my skin, my body floating on your salt-crusted surface." 🌊

Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, “Birth Country” by Nghiem Tran, in #TheMargins.

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Changeling, mythical animal, delighting in the chase

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Elaine Hsieh Chou @elainehsiehchou.bsky.social · 23d

Sharing some upcoming events ✨

Thur 9/25 @ 6 pm ET: A virtual @aaww-nyc.bsky.social event with @deliacai.bsky.social!

RSVP here: www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-in...

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 22d

"To die in your bed surrounded by / those who tended your flame is a luxury afforded to few."

Poetry Editor @ritamookerjee.bsky.social published a poem in @aaww-nyc.bsky.social! buff.ly/421Hizy

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 19d

At the deeply moving Voices for Gaza event at Town Hall. Please do consider donating to inara.org.

Asian American Writers' Workshop @aaww-nyc.bsky.social · 24d

"He couldn’t even pretend to live her fantasy, and I see it slipping past her every day."

Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "A Bollywood Story" by Gauri Awasthi, in #TheMargins. 🧊

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A Bollywood Story

Even that night father refused to play the hero.

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Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 26d

NEWS: The Library of Congress is announcing the appointment of Arthur Sze as the nation’s 25th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2025-2026. Sze will begin his laureateship with a reading of his work on Thursday, Oct. 9 at the Library. newsroom.loc.gov/news/library...

Library of Congress Names Arthur Sze the Nation's 25th U.S. Poet Laureate

The Library of Congress today announced the appointment of Arthur Sze as the nation’s 25th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2025-2026.

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Asian American Writers' Workshop @aaww-nyc.bsky.social · Sep 9

"imagine setting down your burden
of questions & past harms. resting. basking."

New in #TheMargins' #PoetryTuesday column, read "therapy exercise // tension" by Genevieve Hartman. ⛅🍀

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therapy exercise // tension

tell me why the image of tree bark makes you cry

Asian American Writers' Workshop @aaww-nyc.bsky.social · Sep 4

"The Bajau think of homeland in terms of water, not land." 🌊

In a new multimedia essay in #TheMargins' translation column,
Judi Mae "JM" Huck considers Sama, a language spoken in the Southern Philippines, its indigenous culture, and childhood lullabies. 🎶🐟

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Reconnecting with the Sea, Reconnecting with My People

Of my two birth tongues, why had only one made the crossing?

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Elaine Hsieh Chou @elainehsiehchou.bsky.social · Aug 31

I forgot to share my book tour info for WHERE ARE YOU REALLY FROM (@penguinpress.bsky.social)‬! I still have events in San Francisco and Las Vegas, as well as a virtual event with @aaww-nyc.bsky.social. Hope to see some of you there! I'll post details and links in the comments 💕

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Elaine Hsieh Chou @elainehsiehchou.bsky.social · Aug 31

Virtual 9/25 at 3 pm PT/6 pm ET: @aaww-nyc.bsky.social with Delia Cai! Free to attend, RSVP at the link below:

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[VIRTUAL] In Celebration of Where Are You Really From

Join AAWW for a celebration of Elaine Hsieh Chou’s Where Are You Really From, featuring Delia Cai!

Asian American Writers' Workshop @aaww-nyc.bsky.social · Aug 19

"Little deer in the meadow of the night, night was the name/ of your first friend"

Read this week's PoetryTuesday piece, "Nobody talks about the irises, so I give them to myself" by Rasha Abdulhadi, in #TheMargins. 🐍🪻

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Nobody talks about the irises, so I give them to myself

I remember you, small one, uncertain origin, lost home

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Lauren Cerand Public Relations @laurencerand.com · Aug 5

Dylan Tran, a 2025 Relegation x @dcwritersroom.bsky.social Fellow has published new work appearing @aaww-nyc.bsky.social’s The Margins today: aaww.org/dim-sum-%E9%...

Dim Sum (點心)

Can dim sum also mean to touch the heart?

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An Uong @anuong.bsky.social · Aug 6

Is this… my first Bluesky post?? Absolutely honored to have an essay out now with @aaww-nyc.bsky.social!! Thank you to the team for giving this piece a home

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How to Cook for a Mom Who Can No Longer Cook

My mom and I share a common language in food. Even at the peak of our most destructive and explosive fights, we would pause to eat together.

Asian American Writers' Workshop @aaww-nyc.bsky.social · Aug 1

"Life was to be scrupulously documented, an archive to be mined for art."

@terrynguyen.bsky.social examines avant-garde video artist #ShigekoKubota & her autobiographical work. Read more from "Searching for Shigeko Kubota" in #TheMargins. 📹🖼️

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Searching for Shigeko Kubota

The avant-garde video artist created autobiographical work that dares you to look closer.

Asian American Writers' Workshop @aaww-nyc.bsky.social · Jul 29

"I am a hummingbird tongue, tucked to the back/ of my own skull."

Read today's #PoetryTuesday piece, "The landscape of your heartbeats, more than 1,000 beats per minute" by @betsyaoki.bsky.social, in #TheMargins. 🐝

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The landscape of your heartbeats, more than 1,000 beats per minute

I uncurl at the sight of you.

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Seoung @seoungkim.bsky.social · Jul 25

i have a joyful little flash story out with @aaww-nyc.bsky.social !! 🥰 aaww.org/short-king/

Becoming a drag king was mostly an accident.

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Jeffrey Yamaguchi @jeffreyyamaguchi.bsky.social · Jul 19

Here’s a snap of author Nishant Batsha & Jafreen Uddin (exec director of @aaww-nyc.bsky.social) at Nishant’s NYC launch for his new novel “A Bomb Placed Close to the Heart” at Rizzoli Bookstore. Fantastic event, wonderful novel, beautiful bookstore. Put Nishant's novel on your summer reads list!

Asian American Writers' Workshop @aaww-nyc.bsky.social · Jul 8

"Take my pearl/ for now, a moon for my Moon." 🌙

Read two poems, “Serenade” and “बहार / Spring,” by @rajivmohabir.bsky.social in #TheMargins' newest folio, MEHFIL, a celebration of playfulness and performance across queer South Asian diaspora.

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Two Poems by Rajiv Mohabir

“Serenade” and “बहार / Spring”

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New York Southeast Asia Network (NYSEAN) @nysean.bsky.social · Jul 5

@aaww-nyc.bsky.social and IMGE Dance Kinetic Mixer

Date: July 10, 2025 | 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM ET
Type/Location: In Person / New York, NY

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Asian American Writers' Workshop @aaww-nyc.bsky.social · Jul 2

"then he tells me Not to worry, there is no right place to live, just that you live in the right now" ☁️

Read today's #PoetryTuesday piece, "IN MY DREAMS, WE UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER" by Tiffany Tai, in #TheMargins.

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IN MY DREAMS, WE UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER

dark matter shows us the shadow selves of trees and perhaps my own as well

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New York Southeast Asia Network (NYSEAN) @nysean.bsky.social · Jun 13

Join @aaww-nyc.bsky.social for a celebration of MOTHERSALT by Mia Ayumi Malhotra and BECOMING GHOST by Cathy Lin Che, featuring readings by Sahar Muradi and Eugenia Leigh.

Date: June 17, 2025 | 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM ET
Type/Location: In Person / New York, NY

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Asian American Writers' Workshop @aaww-nyc.bsky.social · Jun 10

"hungry / we paw each other good"

Read Aishvarya Arora’s poem, “T4T,” in MEHFIL, the latest folio in #TheMargins edited by Rajat Dayal Singh, with art by Jasjyot Singh Hans. 🌈

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Blaft Publications @blaft.bsky.social · Jun 5

Yukti Narang has a new flash fiction piece up at @aaww-nyc.bsky.social

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Read! And then check out her story "The Kitchen Glob" in THE BLAFT BOOK OF ANTI-CASTE SF

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When a Lamb Smokes a Cigarette

The little lamb doesn’t know how to contain his beating heart anymore.