“This, then, is my choice: I can allow the events of my life to happen to me. Or I can take those very same actions and make them my own. I can live in my own present, risk failure, be assured of fail...

Mark Greyson, a pubescent mixed-Korean American boy, gazes up at his white father, Nolan, as they sit together on the roof of their house. “Okay, Son, bear with me,” Nolan begins slowly. “This is gonn...

Over the last decade, fantasy novels by Asian North American writers have consistently appeared on bestseller lists for both adult and YA fiction, won prestigious awards, and achieved their own fandom...

Conceived and drafted during the COVID-19 pandemic, Celeste Ng’s Our Missing Hearts (2022) imagines an authoritarian America in the wake of a fictional “Crisis,” a period of severe economic depression...

More than two decades into the twenty-first century, Asian Americans have obtained representational visibility and institutional agency in an ever widening range of professional industries. No longer ...

Mass culture is not a term that Asian American studies has taken seriously up to this point, preferring, instead, the playground of popular culture. Understandably focused on examples that recognize, ...

In 2011, I wrote a blog post titled, “Has Asian American Studies Failed?”1 In it, I vented my frustrations about the fact that, despite 40 years of work in Asian American studies, many of the basic in...

Asian Americans seem to be everywhere these days. No longer confined to ethnic enclaves or niche subcultures, they populate our television screens winning academy awards and Olympic medals. They inhab...

Post45 seeks to reinvigorate the erstwhile convention of academic critics not only describing past traditions but also actively intervening in current tastes. It provides a forum for writers to conver...

Edited by Robert J. LeBlanc and T. Philip Nichols

Edited by Robert J. LeBlanc and T. Phillip Nichols

When it comes to the history of American education, Clifton Hillegass has not gotten his due. In his decades-long career, Hillegass’s name graced the cover of hundreds of books, works that have sold t...

Edited by Robert J. LeBlanc and T. Phillip Nichols

When it comes to the history of American education, Clifton Hillegass has not gotten his due. In his decades-long career, Hillegass’s name graced the cover of hundreds of books, works that have sold t...

Edited by Robert J. LeBlanc and T. Phillip Nichols

Michael Maguire

When it comes to the worldwide significance of Korean popular culture right now, the seven-member group BTS (or, 방탄소년단) naturally comes to mind — they are, by almost every measure, one of the most pop...

Thinking on the work and career of the poet C.D. Wright, I return, in my own elliptical fashion, to two quotes (and one idea) from two writers who write about the nature of literary production at the ...

Post45 seeks to reinvigorate the erstwhile convention of academic critics not only describing past traditions but also actively intervening in current tastes. It provides a forum for writers to conver...

Winter outside of Providence; winter in northern lower Michigan. Light like a gnat crawling the walls of a milk-glass jar — between snow and cloud cover, the sun’s pale ricochets subdued. In a copy ro...

In Just Whistle (1993), Tremble (1996), and One Big Self (2003),((One Big Self was first published in 2003 as One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana with photographs by Deborah Luster; the text was repu...

What will my new instrument be Just this water glassthis untunable spoon Something else is out theregoddamnit And I want to hear it − C.D. Wright, “And It Came to Pass”((C.D. Wright, “And It Came to P...

Continuing in the documentary-poetic tradition established by poets like Muriel Rukeyser and Daphne Marlatt, C.D. Wright collaborated with a photographer and conducted field interviews to gather an ar...

Not to know but to go on.Anything is a mirror.There are two endless directions. In and out.((Agnes Martin, Agnes Martin: Writings = Schriften, ed. Dieter Schwarz (Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2005), ...

And black is the funereal color of the prison system’s regime of death, which infiltrates the home as a worker’s uniform, “the executioner’s corduroy hood.” Capital punishment works well for a racist ...

The lines, “That’s hard / I don’t go there,” appear twice, near the beginning of C.D. Wright’s One Big Self: An Investigation, a poetic collaboration with the photographer, Deborah Luster, that uses f...

Nobody needs to prove, in 2025, that C. D. Wright was an influential poet, or a beloved teacher, or someone who continues to be read and studied today. Few American poets of her cohort have a more var...

“[Poetry] is the one scene where I advance determined, if not precisely ready, to do battle with what an overly cited Jungian described as the anesthetized heart, the heart that does not react.”((C.D....

Thinking on the work and career of the poet C.D. Wright, I return, in my own elliptical fashion, to two quotes (and one idea) from two writers who write about the nature of literary production at the ...

You ready yourselffor the restless transmission. This week: Mr. Wieners.I’ll spread the word. So you turn to supplication,this filial work. Words snaked from the drainon John Street. Wadded, casting f...

The question I had when I began the process for this cluster, “C.D. Wright in Context,” at its heart had to do with influence, but not exclusively in the way that the poet herself is famous for it. I ...

Post45 seeks to reinvigorate the erstwhile convention of academic critics not only describing past traditions but also actively intervening in current tastes. It provides a forum for writers to conver...

Post45 seeks to reinvigorate the erstwhile convention of academic critics not only describing past traditions but also actively intervening in current tastes. It provides a forum for writers to conver...

Pod45 · Episode

I came into adolescence in the age of the supernatural teen drama. Spanning across novels, television, and film from the mid-aughts through the 2010s, the likes of Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight, The CW’s...