Asian American Writers' Workshop

The Long Revolution With me, there is always a high horse you can dangle your feet from.

"With me, there is always a high horse you can dangle/ your feet from." 🌊

Read this week's #PoetryTuesday poem, "The Long Revolution" by Bella Zhou, in #TheMargins. 🍃

https://aaww.org/the-long-revolution/

Flight Path I’m alive and I have an appetite/ for longing.

"I’m alive and I have an appetite / for longing. So let them all in: the birds, / the strays. Even the / things that buzz / in my ear. "

From "Flight Path" by ASU English alum @susanpoet.bsky.social. Read the whole poem @aaww-nyc.bsky.social The Margins: ow.ly/wgmy50XyqHe #ASUHumanities

kestane kebap how must it feel for my mother, watching?

"our mother tells us:
once there was an autumn. once there was a spring.
once i was a young woman in a big city"

Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "kestane kebap" by Z. Yasmin Waheed, in #TheMargins. 🌃🍁

https://aaww.org/kestane-kebap/

"She spoke of the war years./ Discovering the ways a body could rewrite itself after/ its becoming."

Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "1947" by Amrita Chand, in #TheMargins. 🌾🌙

https://aaww.org/1947-poem/

Tastes of Beiping Selections from Essays from a Cottager’s Sketchbook 雅舍小品

"Through the warmth of old Beiping recipes, I hope to honor the joy in our inheritance and share the comfort they brought to me."

New in our Transpacific Literary Project, Ge Fang translates two essays by Liang Shih-chiu on a few favorite Chinese snacks. 🍬🥛

https://aaww.org/tlp-tastes-of-beiping/

“Where are you from?” I repeat, there is no leaving in the afterlife

"There is no living in the/ afterlife, grammar corrects me." 🕊️

Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "Where are you from?" by Tran Tran, in #TheMargins.

🌟 https://aaww.org/where-are-you-from/

Osipon Six pieces from the Philippines’ Bikol region

"Get out of the ring, or you’ll die in pain | Lumuwas ika o magraan dagos"

Read “A Omegang Babayi,” or “The Omega Woman,” written by and translated from Bikol by Francisco V. Peñones, Jr., in #TheMargins’ latest folio, OSIPON! ❤️‍🔥🇵🇭

https://aaww.org/osipon-omegang-babayi-omega-woman/

Two Poems by Kimberly Nguyen “dodging the bullet” and “google search: do abusers know they are abusive”

“in my girlhood, there was no love without sacrifice.”

Read two new poems from Kimberly Nguyen in our #PoetryTuesday column, “dodging the bullet” and “google search: do abusers know they are abusive.” 💌💔

⭐ more in #TheMargins: https://aaww.org/two-poems-by-kimberly-nguyen/

Join us on November 23 for our annual publishing conference, PAGE TURNER, featuring a day of stacked panels on navigating the literary and publishing industry as writers of color.

https://aaww.org/curation/pubcon25/

Osipon Six pieces from the Philippines’ Bikol region

We're so excited to be presented OSIPON, the newest folio from #TheMargins! Featuring poetry, fiction, and literary criticism, Osipon is a folio of six pieces from the Bikol region of the Philippines. 🇵🇭

READ THE FOLIO ❤️‍🔥 https://aaww.org/tlp-osipon/

Aubade with American Dream you are only a persimmon strandedon a rowboat sinking, ocean slipping solemn against your wrinkled skin.

"In the dream where you are still alive, you keep reincarnating:"

Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "Aubade with American Dream" by Ela Kini (@elakini.bsky.social), in #TheMargins. ☁️

aaww.org/aubade-with-...

Safety Pin Safety is a body with a place to hide in.

"Safety is a body with/ a place to hide in."

Read "Safety Pin" by Luisa A. Igloria (@thepoetslizard.bsky.social), new in our #PoetryTuesday column in #TheMargins. 🧷

aaww.org/safety-pin/

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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With these crows for hands, I caress a flower The body of wings breeds a body of wings

"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. 🐦‍⬛🌷

aaww.org/with-these-c...

Birth Country Changeling, mythical animal, delighting in the chase

"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.

aaww.org/birth-country/

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...

"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

Aasif Mandvi and Seema Jilani on stage at Town Hall - a logo for Inara with a donation QR code on the screen behind them.

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

A Bollywood Story Even that night father refused to play the hero.

"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. 🧊

aaww.org/a-bollywood-...

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.

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...

therapy exercise // tension tell me why the image of tree bark makes you cry

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

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

aaww.org/therapy-exer...

Reconnecting with the Sea, Reconnecting with My People Of my two birth tongues, why had only one made the crossing?

"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. 🎶🐟

aaww.org/reconnecting...

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 💕

[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!

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:

aaww.org/curation/vir...

Nobody talks about the irises, so I give them to myself I remember you, small one, uncertain origin, lost home

"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. 🐍🪻

aaww.org/nobody-talks...

Dim Sum (點心) Can dim sum also mean to touch the heart?

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%...

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.

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

aaww.org/how-to-cook-...

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

"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. 📹🖼️

aaww.org/searching-fo...

The landscape of your heartbeats, more than 1,000 beats per minute I uncurl at the sight of you.

"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. 🐝

aaww.org/the-landscap...

Short King Becoming a drag king was mostly an accident.

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