#APAHeritageMonth
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...
The World I Leave You: Asian American Poets on Faith & Spirit | Orison Books
The World I Leave You:Asian American Poets on Faith & SpiritEdited by Leah Silvieus & Lee Herrick paper / 274 pp. / $18.00Orison BooksISBN: 978-1-949039-05-4Distributed to the trade by Itasca…
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May 31, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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...
May 31, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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...
May 31, 2025 at 6:01 PM
“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-...
miCRo: "Swamp" by Catherine Niu
Am I still the companion on your Southwest Airlines Companion Pass?
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May 31, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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...
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May 31, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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...
May 31, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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...
Three Poems by Bella Zhou
how many egrets lost footing in the candles of your chest, syllables broken by rust? (poetry/ No Place is Foreign)
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May 30, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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...
May 30, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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...
Dialect of Distant Harbors – CavanKerry Press
“A grievous vastness to this world,” writes Dipika Mukherjee, “beyond human experience.” With wonder and empathy, and even rage, Dialect of Distant Harbors summons a shared humanity to examine issues…
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May 30, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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...
"But I repeat myself." by Addie Tsai -
you’ve told me this before you’ve told me this before you’ve told me this before you’ve told me this before you’ve told me this before you tell me a story & it reminds me of one too one I’ve told…
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May 30, 2025 at 1:03 PM
“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
Esther Ra — Does It Have Pockets
the best & the brightest
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May 29, 2025 at 7:01 PM
“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/...
40.1 Siavash Saadlou
My Mom Told MeLove is a way of returning home— after work, after war, after jail time, after traveling… I think that only love can put an end to all suffering. That’s why I’m singing love songs all…
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May 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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...
The End of Peril, the End of Enmity, the End of Strife, a Haven by Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint | Noemi Press
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May 29, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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...
May 28, 2025 at 6:02 PM
“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...
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May 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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...
May 28, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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...
My Name is Immigrant - Hanging Loose Press
Wang Ping’s remarkable history has taken her from farm worker during the Cultural Revolution to an international reputation as a teacher and writer. In her spare time, she climbs mountains and rows…
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May 27, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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...
May 27, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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...
May 27, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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...
May 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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...
May 27, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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...
May 27, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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...
About 3 — Kitchen Table Quarterly
Esther Ra
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May 26, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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...
Mimi Yang – ANMLY
ANMLY
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May 26, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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...
Savage Pageant
Savage Pageant recounts the history of the defunct zoo, Jungleland, which housed Hollywood's show animals up until its closure in 1969. In it, Stark explores the concept of US American spectacle and…
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May 26, 2025 at 7:02 PM