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Celebrating over 30 years of amplifying Asian American & Asian diasporic literature to mobilize for a more just future. Subscribe → eepurl.com/gNlHV1 ✨🍉 aaww.org

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International Armenian Literary Alliance @armenianliterary.org · 07/05/2026

Read IALA 2023 Creative Writing Grant winner Alexa Luborsky's latest poem, "I didn't apologize to the well," published in the @aaww-nyc.bsky.social magazine, The Margins. ✍ Check it out: bit.ly/4noMuFC

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Quincy Scott Jones @quincyscottjones.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Six years ago George Floyd's murder sparked a revolution. Or rather, the fire was always there. Thank you @ninasharmawriter.bsky.social and @aaww-nyc.bsky.social. #AAPIMonth #allyship #BlackLivesMatter www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9D1...

If the Revolution has Come by Quincy Scott Jones

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Asian American Writers' Workshop @aaww-nyc.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

"For those encountering the Saami family, the experience often feels like entering a shared memory space." In our latest Open City piece, Sadaf Padder traces how the vocal tradition of khayal is finding new life in NYC through the Saami family. 💨🍵 aaww.org/carrying-on-the-khayal-tra…

Asian American Writers' Workshop @aaww-nyc.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

"what transpired back and forth/ between her resigned chin and his optimistic gaze in that/ moment" Read two poems by Preeti Vangani from her collection Fifty Mothers, out last month from @RiverRiverBooks, shared in #TheMargins. ✨🚞 aaww.org/two-poems-by-preeti-vangani

Asian American Writers' Workshop @aaww-nyc.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

"[Cha] was interested in deep, long scales of human time. " In belated honor of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's birthday (March 4, 1951), revisit "Dictee's Pictures," by Spencer Lee-Lenfield, in #TheMargins. 🖼️⚖️ aaww.org/dictees-pictures

Dictee’s Pictures

What the mysterious images of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s seminal work might tell us about her life.

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International Armenian Literary Alliance @armenianliterary.org · 23/02/2026

We’re pleased to announce the Sarkisian Workshop Series: Can Storytelling Save Us? ✍️ 📚 Learn more about the six writing workshops, brought to you by IALA, @miznaarabart.bsky.social, @aaww-nyc.bsky.social & the Sarkisian Foundation for the Arts and Engineering: bit.ly/SWS26

Asian American Writers' Workshop @aaww-nyc.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

"the rock salt was not afraid of being sea-run" Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "Ars Poetica: Poetry as Lot’s Wife Who Looked Back at the Burning Cities" by Ammara Younas, in #TheMargins. 🌕🪨 aaww.org/ars-poetica-poetry-as-lots-wife-who-looked-back-at-the-burning-cities/

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Alycia Pirmohamed @alycia.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

I haven’t shared too much poetry recently - I’ve learned that I’m not someone who writes very much during crisis, amidst grief. but I have a new one, one of my only new ones, in @aaww-nyc.bsky.social’s gorgeous new folio edited by Megan Pinto and Kiran Bath 🩷 aaww.org/then-the-lak...

Then the Lake Shifts

the peaks of this memory sharpen

Asian American Writers' Workshop @aaww-nyc.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Can the reject condition be elevated into art? Spencer Quong considers this in his review of Tony Tulathimutte's story collection, Rejection. 🌟 Read new criticism in #TheMargins at aaww.org/the-rejection-trap

The Rejection Trap

On Tony Tulathimutte’s Rejection

Asian American Writers' Workshop @aaww-nyc.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

"the most dangerous emergency at sea is fire" Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "Give Me Rough Seas" by Seema Jilani, in #TheMargins. 🌊🔥 aaww.org/give-me-rough-seas

Asian American Writers' Workshop @aaww-nyc.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

"I’d still leave slices of bitter melon behind in my bowl, but the aunties/ would overlook it." This week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "If They Had Named Me Marion," is by Jia-Rui Cook, whose debut poetry collection just won the 2025 Philip Levine Prize! 🥳 🦪 aaww.org/if-they-had-named-me-marion

If They Had Named Me Marion

But I came into the world with this full head of hair.

Asian American Writers' Workshop @aaww-nyc.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

"Tongue tamer, lip purser, performance is/ what you were born for." Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "Ode to ប" by April Lim, in #TheMargins. 💨🐀 aaww.org/ode-to-%e1%9e%94

How your sound fills/ pockets.

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Asian American Writers' Workshop @aaww-nyc.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

"Forgetfulness is a type of ingratitude,/ Remembrance a form of prayer." Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "Write in Blood" by Yahia Lababidi in #TheMargins. 🧪📿 aaww.org/write-in-blood

The punishment of the oppressor is that they are denied poetry.

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Poets & Writers @pw.org · 13/01/2026

We're thrilled to announce that Tina Chang, Khaled Hosseini, Eugene B. Redmond, and Jordan Pavlin (@aaknopf.bsky.social) will be honored by Poets & Writers at our 2026 Gala on March 23. Congratulations to these exemplary literary citizens! Learn more about our honorees: at.pw.org/Gala26PR

Asian American Writers' Workshop @aaww-nyc.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

"Grief never leaves / the way the body holding it does." Read today's #PoetryTuesday piece, "I didn't apologize to the well" by Alexa Luborsky, in #TheMargins.👔🌖 aaww.org/i-didnt-apologize-to-the-w…

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Asian American Writers' Workshop @aaww-nyc.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

"I stand unheeded, imaginary, / indistinguishable from air." Read our first #PoetryTuesday piece of the new year, "A Korean Woman Walks Into a Bar in Chicago" by Sara Verstynen, in #TheMargins. 💎🌬️ aaww.org/a-korean-woman-walks-into-…

Asian American Writers' Workshop @aaww-nyc.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

"Aren't all governments/ made up by men of/ might?" Read two new poems by Rona Luo, "How To Evaluate A Family Genealogy" and "Men of Might", in #TheMargins' #PoetryTuesday column. 🐋🌲 aaww.org/two-poems-by-rona-luo

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Asian American Writers' Workshop @aaww-nyc.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

"your hate unstoppers my spirit. it drifts above my head like a / chandelier." Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "street smart sunshine" by Michelle Chen, in #TheMargins. 🐝⛅ aaww.org/street-smart-sunshine

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Ashley D'Souza @ashleydsouza.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Feeling so happy and grateful because @aaww-nyc.bsky.social's The Margins has nominated my piece, Unholy, for a Pushcart Prize. :) <3 aaww.org/unholy/

All plugged up with wood, I feel like a bastardized Pinocchio.

Asian American Writers' Workshop @aaww-nyc.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

"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. 🍃 aaww.org/the-long-revolution

The Long Revolution

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

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Department of English at Arizona State University @asuenglish.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

"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

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

Asian American Writers' Workshop @aaww-nyc.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

"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. 🌃🍁 aaww.org/kestane-kebap

how must it feel for my mother, watching?

Asian American Writers' Workshop @aaww-nyc.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

"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. 🌾🌙 aaww.org/1947-poem

Asian American Writers' Workshop @aaww-nyc.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

"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. 🍬🥛 aaww.org/tlp-tastes-of-beiping

Tastes of Beiping

Selections from Essays from a Cottager’s Sketchbook 雅舍小品

Asian American Writers' Workshop @aaww-nyc.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

"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. 🌟 aaww.org/where-are-you-from

“Where are you from?”

I repeat, there is no leaving in the afterlife

Asian American Writers' Workshop @aaww-nyc.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

"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! ❤️‍🔥🇵🇭 aaww.org/osipon-omegang-babayi-omeg…

Six pieces from the Philippines’ Bikol region

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Asian American Writers' Workshop @aaww-nyc.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

“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: aaww.org/two-poems-by-kimberly-nguy…

Two Poems by Kimberly Nguyen

“dodging the bullet” and “google search: do abusers know they are abusive”

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Asian American Writers' Workshop @aaww-nyc.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

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. aaww.org/curation/pubcon25

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Asian American Writers' Workshop @aaww-nyc.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

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 ❤️‍🔥 aaww.org/tlp-osipon

Six pieces from the Philippines’ Bikol region

Asian American Writers' Workshop @aaww-nyc.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

"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-...

Aubade with American Dream

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

Asian American Writers' Workshop @aaww-nyc.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

"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/

Safety is a body with a place to hide in.

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New York Southeast Asia Network (NYSEAN) @nysean.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

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 buff.ly/CP9s2o9

Asian American Writers' Workshop @aaww-nyc.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

"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...

With these crows for hands, I caress a flower

The body of wings breeds a body of wings

Asian American Writers' Workshop @aaww-nyc.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

"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/

Changeling, mythical animal, delighting in the chase

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Elaine Hsieh Chou @elainehsiehchou.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

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...

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

"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

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 22/09/2025

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

Asian American Writers' Workshop @aaww-nyc.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

"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-...

A Bollywood Story

Even that night father refused to play the hero.

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Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

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...

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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.

Asian American Writers' Workshop @aaww-nyc.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

"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...

therapy exercise // tension

tell me why the image of tree bark makes you cry

Asian American Writers' Workshop @aaww-nyc.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

"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...

Reconnecting with the Sea, Reconnecting with My People

Of my two birth tongues, why had only one made the crossing?

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Elaine Hsieh Chou @elainehsiehchou.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

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 💕

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Elaine Hsieh Chou @elainehsiehchou.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

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...

[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!

Asian American Writers' Workshop @aaww-nyc.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

"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...

Nobody talks about the irises, so I give them to myself

I remember you, small one, uncertain origin, lost home

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Lauren Cerand Public Relations @laurencerand.com · 05/08/2025

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%...

Dim Sum (點心)

Can dim sum also mean to touch the heart?

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An Uong @anuong.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

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-...

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.

Asian American Writers' Workshop @aaww-nyc.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

"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...

Searching for Shigeko Kubota

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

Asian American Writers' Workshop @aaww-nyc.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

"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...

The landscape of your heartbeats, more than 1,000 beats per minute

I uncurl at the sight of you.

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Seoung @seoungkim.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

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

Becoming a drag king was mostly an accident.