Myths & the Motherland: A Reading @ AWP26

It was such a pleasure to read alongside incredible poets Angela Siew, M. Cynthia Cheung, Diana Cao, and Saba Keramati at this year’s AWP! It’s still so rare to read with other female poets of Chinese descent, and I’m so honoured to have been able to do this twice.

A reading from the authors’ award-winning work and recent/forthcoming books. In the face of hypernationalism and trade wars, it’s essential that we as Chinese diasporic women offer our work as resistance. Poems will touch upon the Chinese diasporic experience—the impact of migration on cultural and linguistic legacy, the idea of homeland, reinterpretations of historical characters and myths, multiplicity in identities and literary form—and work outside this scope. A Q&A will follow.