🌻 Session 5: Mothers 🌱 [Asian American Poetry As A Radical Possibility]

​🌱 NOTAWLOF; sliding scale contributions here: https://givebutter.com/radfall24 👋 Hello everyone, we are looking forward to seeing you again/meeting you on Sunday!

📚 Our readings for each class can be accessed here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TLg1TJvfWJOHX0sOX8sN1_k_L9kQ2BHv7suJywAp6-I/edit?usp=sharing 💭

Please come to class with a “top 3” of poems you’d like to discuss, and we will vote together on which poems to focus on during our time together.

💭 Please come to class with a “top 3” of poems you’d like to discuss, and we will vote together on which poems to focus on during our time together. Additionally, please be ready to discuss Susan Koshy’s "Neoliberal Family Matters" to look at the ways that both mothers and fathers are asked to participate in neoliberal capitalism and the way Asian diasporic families are informed by these structures of gender and parenting.

The poems we have selected we believe offer other modes of articulating the relationship between child and parent, and we hope to expand the possibilities of familial writing that might be available to us with this collection of pieces.

K-Ming Chang: Issue Twenty-Five: K-Ming Chang | The Adroit Journal
Jennifer S. Cheng: the impact of foreign bodies; the earth collapsing | The Nation
Megan Fernandes: Orlando | The Nation Bhanu Kapil:
Bhanu Kapil “12 questions”
Li-Young Lee: The Weight of Sweetness by Li-Young Lee - Poems | Academy of American Poets
Ayesha Raees: Good | The Nation
Preeti Kaur Rajpal: Preeti Kaur Rajpal “the excision”
Janice Lobo Sapigao: Janice Lobo Sapigao - TLDTD
Dujie Tahat: On Desire by Dujie Tahat - Poems | Academy of American Poets
Khaty Xiong: Aubade

🌱 Our intent is to discuss, and to create a writing exercise born from our discussion. We hope the discussion of this piece and the poems for this week will allow us to better understand the pressures on our parents beyond narratives of immigration and sacrifice. Stay tuned for an email on guidance of the structure of Sunday's course.