Here's where you'll find Kundiman in Seattle during AWP 2023, inside and outside the Convention Center!

March 8th–11th: awp Book Fair

Booth #728

Wednesday, March 8th – Saturday, March 11th, 2023

Seattle Convention Center in Seattle, WA

Kundiman will be at the AWP Book Fair throughout the conference. Feel free to stop by Booth #728 to chat with Kundiman staff and Fellows, as well as pick up merch, and get books signed!

March 9th: Celebrating Pacific Islander Literature with Craig Santos Perez, Kristiana Kahakauwila, and William Nu’utupu Giles

Thursday, March 9th, 2023
1:45 pm – 3:00 PM PT

Ballroom 1 Level 5
Seattle Convention Center

Join Kundiman and writers Craig Santos Perez, Kristiana Kahakauwila, and William Nu’utupu Giles for a reading and conversation celebrating the breadth of Pacific Islander literature today.

Read more about the event on our calendar or on AWP's website!

march 10th: Asian American Caucus

Friday, March 10, 2023
6:30 pm – 7:45 PM PT

Room 437, Summit Building, Level 4
Seattle Convention Center

What does it mean to steward Asian American and Pacific Islander literature organizationally, collectively, and individually? The annual Asian American Caucus is a town hall-style hangout and community space. Come meet other Asian American writers and discuss opportunities and resources available to support you. Organized by Kundiman, the Asian American Writers' Workshop, Kaya Press, Hyphen Magazine, the Asian American Literary Review, and Smithsonian's APAC. Read more about the event on our calendar, or on AWP's website!

FELLOW EVENTS:

Join Kundiman fellows at the following events during AWP!

Wednesday, March 8th:

• Poetry Northwest + Seattle Arts and Lectures Off-Site Reading @ The Pine Box with Eugenia Leigh

  8:00 PM – 9:30 PM PT
  The Pine Box
  1600 Melrose Ave, Seattle, WA 98122 

  
  

• AWP 2023 Off-Site Event - Growing From Our Roots: An Asian Debut Showcase with Susan Nguyen, Joshua Nguyen, E.M Tran, Sarah Audsley, Jenny Tinghui Zhang, Noreen Ocampo, Jami Nakamura Lin, Ina Cariño, Wo Chan, and Tamara Al-Qaisi-Coleman.

  8:15 PM PT
  Elliott Bay Book Company
  1521 10th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98122 

Thursday, March 9th:

• Nightboat Books / Poets Reading: A reading for all authors who published poetry books since last AWP with Janice Lobo Sapigao

• Resisting the Narrative, Lyric Essaying the Future with Zoë Bossiere, Erica Trabold, Jennifer S. Cheng, Jenny Boully, and Krys Malcolm Belc
  

  9:00 AM – 10:15 AM PT
  Room 430, Summit Building, Level 4
  Seattle Convention Center

  
  

• The Pocket Epic: Poets Writing at Length with Melissa Crowe, Meg Day, Paisley Rekdal, and Sumita Chakraborty

  10:35 AM – 11:50 AM PT
  Room 447-448, Summit Building, Level 4
  Seattle Convention Center

  
  

• The State of Vietnamese-American Poetics with Joshua Nguyen, Paul Tran, Susan Nguyen, Kimberly Nguyen, and Hieu Minh Nguyen
  

  12:10 PM – 1:25 PM PT
  Room 338-339, Summit Building, Level 3
  Seattle Convention Center

  
  

• Race to Machine: Asian-Americans Write Tech, Colonialism, and Dystopia with Shankar Narayan, Franny Choi, Grace M. Cho, Elizabeth (Betsy) Aoki, Neil Aitken, and Margaret Rhee
  12:10 PM – 1:25 PM PT
  Room 433-434, Summit Building, Level 4
  Seattle Convention Center

  
  

• Defying Tradition in Lyric Flash Creative Nonfiction with Kate Kysar, April Gibson, Denise Low-Weso, Sayantika Mandal, and Sun Yung Shin

  12:10 PM – 1:25 PM PT
  Room 340-342, Summit Building, Level 3
  Seattle Convention Center

  
  

• Early Career—at Middle Age? Poets Publishing First Books at 40+ with Wendy Barnes, Xavier Cavazos, Shelley Wong, Joel Dias-Porter, and Sarah Browning
  

  1:45 PM – 3:00 PM PT
  Terrace Suite I, Summit Building, Level 4
  Seattle Convention Center

• Do I Contain Multitudes? Who's Asking? with Sarah Blake, Rachel Mennies, Arisa White, C. Russell Price, and Wo Chan

  1:45 PM – 3:00 PM PT
  Room 445-446, Summit Building, Level 4
  Seattle Convention Center

• AWP 2023 Virtual Off-Site Event: AAWW’s Hybrid Possibilities: Asian Queer Writers Across Genre with Kirin M. Khan, Zeyn Joukhadar, Angela Peñaredondo, Lisa Factora-Borchers, and Kay Ulanday Barrett

  3:00 PM – 4:00 PM PT
  Online Event

• They Rise Like A Wave: An Anthology of Asian American Women Poets Offsite Event with Alycia Pirmohamed (editor of TRLAW and author of Another Way To Split Water), Christine Kitano (editor of TRLAW and author of Sky Country), Amy Lam, poet Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello, Angela Peñaredondo, Shelley Wong, Raena Shirali, Maria Isabelle Carlos, Maw Shein Win, Megan Pinto, Cynthia Oka, Carlina Duan, Jihyun Yun, Torsa Ghosal, Su Cho, Candy Shue

  5:00 PM – 8:00 PM PT
  Zeitgeist Coffee
  171 S Jackson St
  Seattle, WA 98104

• BOA Editions, Noemi Press, and Veliz Books Author Reading with Angela Peñaredondo

  6:00 PM PT
  Seatle Public Library, Ketchum Meeting Room
  1000 Fourth Ave.
  Seattle, WA 98104

• Four Way Books 30th Anniversary Off-Site Reading at Seattle Beer Co. with Eugenia Leigh

  7:00 PM – 9:00 PM PT
  1427 Western Ave
  Seattle, WA 98101

Friday, March 10th:

• They Rise Like a Wave: An Anthology of Asian American Women Poets with Alycia Pirmohamed, Christine Kitano, Candy Shue, Paul Tran, Sarah Audsley, and Manahil Bandukwala

  9:00 AM – 10:15 AM PT
  Rooms 328-329, Summit Building, Level 3
  Seattle Convention Center

• Invisible Kith: Poets on Loss to Suicide with Joan Kwon Glass, K. Iver, MT Vallarta, Diana Khoi Nguyen, and KB Brookins

  10:35 AM – 11:50 AM PT
  Rooms 338-339, Summit Building, Level 3
  Seattle Convention Center

  
  

• Hand to Stone: Fujitarō Kubota and James W. Washington, Jr. in Poetry and Prose with Adriana Campoy, Carletta Carrington Wilson, Elizabeth Austen, Kentaro Kojima, and Shankar Narayan
  

  10:35 AM – 11:50 AM PT
  Rooms 337, Summit Building, Level 3
  Seattle Convention Center
  

• Asian Moms: Tiger Moms, Magical Grandmas, and the Asian American Millennial with Danni Quintos, Su Cho, Lisa Low, Anni Liu, and Marianne Chan

  10:35 AM – 11:50 AM PT
  Rooms 332, Summit Building, Level 3
  Seattle Convention Center

  
  

• So You Want to Edit an Anthology? Editors on Pitch, Process, and Publication with Emily Pérez, Stephanie G'Schwind, Ruben Quesada, Richard Santos, and Sun Yung Shin 

  10:35 AM – 11:50 AM PT
  Terrace Suite I, Summit Building, Level 4
  Seattle Convention Center

  
  

• Writing through Apocalypse: Poets at the End of the World with Franny Choi, Saeed Jones, and Brenda Shaughnessy

  10:35 AM – 11:50 AM PT
  Rooms 447-448, Summit Building, Level 4
  Seattle Convention Center

  
  

• Eugenia Leigh Author Signing for BIANCA (Four Way Books booth)

  Booth #803
  11:00 AM – 12:00 PM PT
  Seattle Convention Center

  
  

• "Memory that Pricks the Skin": Five Asian Women Poets Writing About History with Marianne Chan, Jessica Q. Stark, Emily Jungmin Yoon, and Mai Der Vang

  12:10 PM – 1:25 PM PT
  Terrace Suite II, Summit Building, Level 4
  Seattle Convention Center

  
  

• The Changing Myths That Shape Our Culture, Sponsored by Red Hen Press with Francesca Bell, Afaa M. Weaver, Amber Flame, Douglas Manuel, and Brynn Saito

  12:10 PM – 1:25 PM PT
  Ballroom 2 & 3, Summit Building, Level 5
  Seattle Convention Center

  
  

• Extended Mournings: Encountering Violence, Memory & Grief in the Asian Diaspora with Ching-In Chen, Serena Chopra, Jane Wong, and Dao Strom

  1:45 PM – 3:00 PM PT
  Rooms 333-334, Summit Building, Level 3
  Seattle Convention Center

  
  

• So You Want to Publish a Poetry Collection with Gabrielle Bates, Luther Hughes, Shelley Wong, and Paul Hlava Ceballos
  

  1:45 PM – 3:00 PM PT
  Rooms 445-446, Summit Building, Level 4
  Seattle Convention Center

  
  

• Everything All at Once: Readings & Conversation with Four Alice James Books Poets with Joseph O. Legaspi, Ina Cariño, Aldo Amparán, J. Estanislao Lopez, and Janine Joseph

  3:20 PM – 4:35 PM PT
  Ballroom 1, Summit Building, Level 5
  Seattle Convention Center
  

• Filipinx Literaoke Extravaganza at Hood Famous with Michelle Peñaloza

  6:30 PM – 9:30 PM PT
  504 5th Ave S #107a
  Seattle, WA 98104

• Apogee Journal, Texas Review, DIAGRAM reading at Alley Mic with Angela Peñaredondo

  7:00 PM – 11:00 PM PT
  1922 Post Alley
  Seattle, WA 98101

Saturday, March 11th:

• From Poe and Plath to Meds and Co-Pays: Poetry and Mental Illness with Emily Pérez, Eugenia Leigh, Kate Hanson Foster, Diannely Antigua, and Kayleb Rae Candrilli

  9:00 AM –10:15 AM PT
  Terrace Suite I, Summit Building, Level 4
  Seattle Convention Center

  
  

• Beyond BTS and Squid Game: Korean Contemporary Poetry in Translation with Jeanine Walker, Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello, Stine An, Ed Bok Lee, and Emily Jungmin Yoon

  9:00 AM –10:15 AM PT
  Room 437, Summit Building, Level 4
  Seattle Convention Center

  
  

• Pedagogies of Play and Pleasure in the Creative Writing Classroom with Rachel Haley Himmelheber, Bronwen Tate, Catina Bacote, and Diana Khoi Nguyen
  

  10:35 AM – 11:50 AM PT
  Room 332, Summit Building, Level 3
  Seattle Convention Center
  

• Weird Fusions: Crafting and Publishing Hybrid Work with Elizabeth Gonzalez James, Jasmine Sawers, Aaron Angello, Vi Khi Nao, and Daisuke Shen
  

  12:10 PM – 1:25 PM PT
  Rooms 427-429, Summit Building, Level 4
  Seattle Convention Center
  

• The Inside Connection: The Possibilities and Pitfalls of Linked Story Collection with Jonathan Escoffery, Leigh Newman, Lydia Conklin, Jean Chen Ho, and Maurice Carlos Ruffin
  

  12:10 PM – 1:25 PM PT
  Rooms 445-446, Summit Building, Level 4
  Seattle Convention Center

  
  

• Experiments Across Genres: Writers and Artists of Color Celebrate Possibility with Ching-In Chen, Emgee Dufresne, Stalina Villarreal, Tonya Foster, Aliah Lavonne Tigh
  

  12:10 PM – 1:25 PM PT
  Rooms 335-336, Summit Building, Level 3
  Seattle Convention Center

  
  

• Incant, Invent, Illuminate: Formal Innovation Under Colonial Patriarchy with Raena Shirali, Irène P. Mathieu, Marwa Helal, Desiree C. Bailey, and Kiran Bath
  

  1:45 PM – 3:00 PM PT
  Rooms 331, Summit Building, Level 3
  Seattle Convention Center
  

• Academic Worker Solidarity in Creative Writing with Natalie Shapero, Grace Talusan, Sumita Chakraborty, and Lindsay Turner
  

  1:45 PM – 3:00 PM PT
  Rooms 328-329, Summit Building, Level 3
  Seattle Convention Center

  
  

• God Talk: Poetics of Wonder, Awe, & Ecstasy with Philip Metres, Kaveh Akbar, Victoria Chang, Ajanae Dawkins, and Chase Berggrun
  

  1:45 PM – 3:00 PM PT
  Signature Room, Summit Building, Level 5
  Seattle Convention Center
  

• Adoptee Representation Is a Human Rights Issue with Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello, Alice Stephens, Ansley Moon, Sarah Audsley, and Tiana Nobile
  

  1:45 PM – 3:00 PM PT
  Rooms 447-448, Summit Building, Level 4
  Seattle Convention Center

  
  

• Beyond the Trauma Plot: Reframing Trauma Toward a Poetics of Justice with Eugenia Leigh, Vanessa Angélica Villarreal, Paul Hlava Ceballos, Nathan McClain, and Janine Joseph
  

  1:45 PM – 3:00 PM PT
  Rooms 332, Summit Building, Level 3
  Seattle Convention Center

  
  

• Writing the Monster with Rebecca Lehmann, Oliver de la Paz, Alex DiFrancesco, Kathryn Nuernberger, and aureleo sans
  

  1:45 PM – 3:00 PM PT
  Rooms 431-432, Summit Building, Level 4
  Seattle Convention Center

  
  

• Flash Lights: Writers of Color Shine on Flash with Jen Soong, María Alejandra Barrios Vélez, Jasmine Sawers, and Tara Isabel Zambrano
  

  3:20 PM – 4:35 PM PT
  Room 447-448, Summit Building, Level 4
  Seattle Convention Center