Curated for Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month and spanning the years 1990-2023, this selection of work seeks to capture the aesthetic and thematic range of Asian American and Pacific Islander poets.
Lee, Li-Young. The City In Which I Love You. Brockport: BOA Editions, 1990.
Mura, David. Angels for the Burning. Rochester, NY: BOA Editions, Ltd., 2004.
Reddy, Srikanth. Facts for Visitors. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.
Ali, Kazim. The Far Mosque. Farmington, ME: Alice James Books, 2005.
Kapil, Bhanu. Schizophrene. Callicoon, NY: Nightboat Books, 2011.
Yang, Jeffrey. An Aquarium. St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 2008.
from "St. Petersburg Hotel Series"
Hong, Cathy Park. Dance Dance Revolution. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2007.
Performance piece incorporating two poems. Published versions of both poems bear the title "ginen the legends of juan malo [a malologue]." Differs from published versions.
Perez, Craig Santos. from unincorporated territory [guma']. Richmond: Omnidawn Publishing, 2014.
Differs from published version.
Faizullah, Tarfia. Registers of Illuminated Villages. Minneapolis: Graywolf, 2018.
Hahn, Kimiko. Brain Fever. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2014.
Sharif, Solmaz. Look. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2016.
Vuong, Ocean. Night Sky with Exit Wounds. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2016.
Yu, Timothy. 100 Chinese Silences. Los Angeles: Les Figues Press, 2016.
Chan, Sylvia. We Remain Traditional. Fort Collins: The Center for Literary Publishing, 2018.
Differs slightly from published version of "Sonoma."
Taitano, Lehua M. Inside Me an Island. Wordtech Editions, 2018.
Legaspi, Joseph O. Threshold. CavanKerry Press, 2017.
Sok, Monica. A Nail the Evening Hangs On. Copper Canyon Press, 2020.
Rekdal, Paisley. West: A Translation. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2023.
Yanyi. The Year of Blue Water. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019.
Differs from published version.
Chin, Marilyn. A Portrait of the Self as Nation: New and Selected Poems. New York: W. W. Norton, 2018.
