The Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center proudly presents the
ASIAN AMERICAN LITERATURE
FESTIVAL
July 27-29, 2017 • Washington, DC
at the Smithsonian, Library of Congress, The Phillips Collection & Dupont Underground
read books • make books • swap books • donate books to new spaces • connect • share resources • be inspired • mentor and be mentored
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Karen Tei Yamashita · Alexander Chee · Paisley Rekdal · Li-Young Lee · Timothy Yu · Tarfia Faizullah · Don Share · Kimiko Hahn · Kazim Ali · Cathy Linh Che · Andrew Lam · Cathy Schlund-Vials · Rajini Srikanth · Min Hyoung Song · PJ Gubatina Policarpio · Keith Chow · Wo Chan · Matt Huynh · Sueyeun Juliette Lee · Regie Cabico · Isabelle Thuy Pelaud · Caroline Kyungah Hong • Sarah Park Dahlen · Rajiv Mohabir · Ryan Lee Wong · Franny Choi · Don Lee · Akhil Sharma · Tsering Wango Dhompa · Khaty Xiong · John Yau · Ed Lin · Gerald Maa · Lindsay Garbutt · Vu Tran · Linh Dinh · Thi Bui · Neelanjana Banerjee · Gina Apostol · Victory Matsui · Sejal Shah · Mimi Khúc · Paul Tran · Janine Joseph · Vt Hung · Shamala Gallagher · Sally Wen Mao · Larissa Lai · Peggy Lee · Christine Kitano · Gowri K · Mark Keats · Tammy Nguyen · Grace Jahng Lee · Justin Monson · Minh Le · Ellen Oh · Hena Khan · Susan Tan · Nicole Chung · Dr. Nguyen Quoc Tri · Gene Oishi · Anelise Chen · Hari Alluri · Tanzila Ahmed · Yanyi · Rami Karim · Kyle Lucia Wu · Mariam Bazeed · Jyothi Natarajan · Gail Harada · Brenda Kwon · Christy Passion · Juliet Kono · Louie Vital · Kita Marshall · Jerrica Escoto · Justin Woo · Simone Jacobson · Nayomi Munaweera · Traci Kato Kiriyama · Beau Sia · Sarah Gambito
Come for the launch of a new Asian American poetry issue of POETRY magazine, a host of performances, mentoring, workshops and maker spaces, pop-up libraries, tarot readings, writer-scholar speed-dating, a bookswap, an animated adaptation of a chapter from Viet Nguyen’s forthcoming novel The Committed (sequel to The Sympathizer), and a durational collective reading of Carlos Bulosan’s America is in the Heart.
PARTNERS
Library of Congress Poetry and Literature Center · POETRY Magazine and the Poetry Foundation · Association of Asian American Studies · Kundiman · Kaya Press · The Asian American Literary Review · Circle for Asian American Literary Studies · Poets and Writers · The Phillips · Fantom Comics · Duende District · Academy of American Poets · Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN) · Dupont Underground · Poetry Society of America · 826DC · Asian American LEAD • Asian Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA) · Asian American Writers’ Workshop (AAWW) · DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities
The Asian American Literature Festival is supported in part by AARP.
