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The Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center proudly presents the<\/h5>\n

ASIAN AMERICAN LITERATURE<\/span>
FESTIVAL<\/span><\/h1>\n

July 27-29, 2017 \u2022\u00a0<\/span>Washington, DC<\/span><\/h2>\n

at the Smithsonian, Library of Congress, The Phillips Collection &\u00a0Dupont Underground<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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read books \u2022\u00a0make books \u2022\u00a0swap books \u2022\u00a0donate books to new spaces \u2022\u00a0connect \u2022\u00a0share resources \u2022\u00a0be inspired \u2022\u00a0mentor and be mentored<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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FEATURED SPEAKERS<\/span><\/h2>\n

Karen Tei Yamashita<\/span><\/a> \u00b7 <\/span>Alexander Chee<\/span><\/a> \u00b7 <\/span>Paisley Rekdal<\/span><\/a> \u00b7 Li-Young Lee\u00a0<\/span>\u00b7 Timothy Yu \u00b7 <\/span>Tarfia Faizullah<\/span><\/a> \u00b7 Don Share \u00b7 Kimiko Hahn \u00b7 <\/span>Kazim Ali<\/span><\/a> \u00b7 <\/span>Cathy Linh Che<\/span><\/a> \u00b7 Andrew Lam \u00b7 Cathy Schlund-Vials \u00b7 Rajini Srikanth \u00b7 Min Hyoung Song \u00b7 PJ Gubatina Policarpio<\/a> \u00b7 <\/span>Keith Chow<\/span><\/a> \u00b7 Wo Chan<\/a> \u00b7 <\/span>Matt Huynh<\/span><\/a> \u00b7 <\/span>Sueyeun Juliette Lee<\/span><\/a> \u00b7 Regie Cabico<\/a> \u00b7 Isabelle Thuy Pelaud \u00b7 Caroline Kyungah Hong \u2022\u00a0<\/span>Sarah Park Dahlen<\/span><\/a> \u00b7 Rajiv Mohabir<\/span><\/a> \u00b7 Ryan Lee Wong<\/span><\/a> \u00b7 Franny Choi<\/span><\/a> \u00b7 Don Lee<\/span><\/a> \u00b7 Akhil Sharma<\/span><\/a> \u00b7 Tsering Wango Dhompa<\/span><\/a> \u00b7 Khaty Xiong<\/span><\/a> \u00b7 John Yau<\/span><\/a> \u00b7 Ed Lin<\/span><\/a> \u00b7 Gerald Maa<\/span><\/a> \u00b7 Lindsay Garbutt<\/span><\/a> \u00b7 Vu Tran<\/span><\/a> \u00b7 Linh Dinh<\/span><\/a> \u00b7 Thi Bui<\/span><\/a> \u00b7 Neelanjana Banerjee<\/span><\/a> \u00b7 Gina Apostol<\/span><\/a> \u00b7 Victory Matsui<\/span><\/a> \u00b7 Sejal Shah<\/span><\/a> \u00b7 Mimi Kh\u00fac \u00b7 Paul Tran<\/span><\/a> \u00b7 Janine Joseph<\/span><\/a> \u00b7 Vt Hung<\/span><\/a> \u00b7 Shamala Gallagher<\/span><\/a> \u00b7 Sally Wen Mao<\/span><\/a> \u00b7 Larissa Lai<\/span><\/a> \u00b7 Peggy Lee<\/span><\/a> \u00b7 Christine Kitano<\/span><\/a> \u00b7 Gowri K<\/span><\/a> \u00b7 Mark Keats<\/span><\/a> \u00b7 Tammy Nguyen<\/span><\/a> \u00b7 Grace Jahng Lee<\/span><\/a> \u00b7 Justin Monson<\/span><\/a> \u00b7 Minh Le<\/span><\/a> \u00b7 Ellen Oh<\/span><\/a> \u00b7 Hena Khan<\/span><\/a> \u00b7 Susan Tan<\/span><\/a> \u00b7 Nicole Chung<\/span><\/a> \u00b7 Dr. Nguyen Quoc Tri \u00b7 Gene Oishi<\/span><\/a> \u00b7 Anelise Chen<\/span><\/a> \u00b7 Hari Alluri<\/span><\/a> \u00b7 Tanzila Ahmed<\/span><\/a> \u00b7 Yanyi<\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00b7 Rami Karim<\/span><\/a> \u00b7 Kyle Lucia Wu<\/span><\/a> \u00b7 Mariam Bazeed<\/span><\/a> \u00b7 Jyothi Natarajan<\/span> \u00b7 Gail Harada<\/span> \u00b7 Brenda Kwon<\/span><\/a> \u00b7 Christy Passion<\/span><\/a> \u00b7 Juliet Kono<\/span><\/a> \u00b7 Louie Vital<\/span> \u00b7 Kita Marshall<\/span><\/a> \u00b7 Jerrica Escoto<\/span><\/a> \u00b7 Justin Woo<\/span> \u00b7 Simone Jacobson<\/span><\/a> \u00b7 Nayomi Munaweera<\/span><\/a> \u00b7 Traci Kato Kiriyama<\/span><\/a> \u00b7 Beau Sia<\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00b7\u00a0Sarah Gambito<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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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\u2019s forthcoming novel <\/span>The Committed<\/span><\/i> (sequel to <\/span>The Sympathizer<\/span><\/i>), and a durational collective reading of Carlos Bulosan\u2019s <\/span>America is in the Heart.<\/span><\/i><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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PARTNERS<\/span><\/h2>\n

Library of Congress Poetry and Literature Center \u00b7 <\/span>POETRY Magazine<\/span><\/i> and the Poetry Foundation \u00b7 Association of Asian American Studies \u00b7 Kundiman \u00b7 Kaya Press \u00b7 The Asian American Literary Review \u00b7 Circle for Asian American Literary Studies \u00b7 Poets and Writers \u00b7 The Phillips\u00a0\u00b7 Fantom Comics\u00a0\u00b7 Duende District \u00b7\u00a0Academy of American Poets \u00b7 Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN) \u00b7 Dupont Underground \u00b7 Poetry Society of America \u00b7 826DC \u00b7 Asian American LEAD \u2022\u00a0Asian Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA) \u00b7 Asian American Writers\u2019 Workshop (AAWW) \u00b7 DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities<\/span><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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The Asian American Literature Festival is supported in part by AARP.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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