🌻 Session 6: Freedom ❤️‍🔥 [Asian American Poetry As A Radical Possibility]

​🌱 NOTAWLOF; sliding scale contributions here: https://givebutter.com/radfall24

​😷 Accessibility: This course is open to all, regardless of writing ability or background. We ask that you wear a mask at all times during our meetings. ARTogether is a wheelchair-accessible location.

👋 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. Evyn Le Espiritu Gandhi’s "Archipelagic History: Vietnam, Palestine, Guam, 1967–1975" delineates what Gandhi calls a “archipelagic” view of history.

This collection of poems demonstrate solidarities between poets from these regions of the world, and hopefully can help us imagine the way that each of our own freedoms are inherently linked to, with, and through the freedom of others.

1. ​George Abraham: ars poetica in which every pronoun is a Free Palestine

2. ​Franny Choi: Time-Sensitive by Franny Choi - Poems | Academy of American Poets 

3. ​Jessica Hagedorn: Jessica Hagedorn “Something About You”

4. ​Noor Hindi: From the Archive: Rumpus Original Poetry: Four Poems by Noor Hindi

5. ​Fady Joudah: Venus Cycle 

6. ​Claire Meuschke: See Saw | Claire Meuschke

7. ​Brandy Nālani McDougall: We Live We Live by Brandy Nālani McDougall - Poems | Academy of American Poets

8. ​Darius Simpson:  The Role of the Artist - Hood Communist  

9. ​Lehua Taitano: When The World Falls in Around You or, Vows to My Palestinian Wife on Our Wedding Day by Lehua M. Taitano - Poems | Academy of American Poets

10. ​Haunani-Kay Trask: The Poetry of Politics | Cultural Survival

11. ​Monica Youn: Two Poems