Asian Images 2018
Every year, in honor of Asian/Pacific Islander (API) Heritage month in May, Stanford's Asian American Students Association puts on Asian Images to demonstrate the impact that everyone can have in combating the under- and mis-representation of APIs in the media and the arts. Asian Images in past years has invited prominent API artists to speak about their unique experiences in this field, as well as centered artists in our own communities, from Stanford students to working Bay Area artists.
Join us for a night of poetry and performance on Wednesday, May 9, 7-10:30PM in the Geology Corner. Meet poets Franny Choi and Paul Tran and celebrate the power of Asian American arts.
This event is free and open to the public.
Schedule
7:00 PM-- Event starts
7:15 PM-- Performances
8:45 PM-- Panel/ Q&A
9:30 PM-- Meet-and-Greet
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Franny Choi is the author of the collection Floating, Brilliant, Gone (Write Bloody Publishing, 2014) and the chapbook Death by Sex Machine (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2017). She has been a recipient of Poetry magazine's Frederick Bock Prize, as well as fellowships from Kundiman, VONA, and the Rhode island State Council on the Arts. Her work has appeared in Poetry, Indiana Review, Drunken Boat, The Poetry Review, The Abolitionist, and elsewhere. As a Project VOICE teaching artist, she has taught students of all ages and levels of experience. Choi is an MFA candidate at the University of Michigan's Helen Zell Writers Program and a member of the multidisciplinary artists of color collective Dark Noise. She is a co-host of the Poetry Foundation's podcast, VS.
Paul Tran is Poetry Editor at The Offing. They live in Missouri, where they are the Chancellor’s Graduate Fellow in The Writing Program at Washington University in St. Louis and Poet-In-Residence at Urban Arts Alliance. Their work appears in The New Yorker, Prairie Schooner, RHINO, which gave them an Editor’s Prize, and elsewhere. Paul is the first Asian American since 1993 to win the Nuyorican Poets Cafe Grand Slam, placing Top 10 at the Individual World Poetry Slam and Top 2 at the National Poetry Slam.
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Join us for a night of poetry and performance on Wednesday, May 9, 7-10:30PM in the Geology Corner. Meet poets Franny Choi and Paul Tran and celebrate the power of Asian American arts.
This event is free and open to the public.
Schedule
7:00 PM-- Event starts
7:15 PM-- Performances
8:45 PM-- Panel/ Q&A
9:30 PM-- Meet-and-Greet
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Franny Choi is the author of the collection Floating, Brilliant, Gone (Write Bloody Publishing, 2014) and the chapbook Death by Sex Machine (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2017). She has been a recipient of Poetry magazine's Frederick Bock Prize, as well as fellowships from Kundiman, VONA, and the Rhode island State Council on the Arts. Her work has appeared in Poetry, Indiana Review, Drunken Boat, The Poetry Review, The Abolitionist, and elsewhere. As a Project VOICE teaching artist, she has taught students of all ages and levels of experience. Choi is an MFA candidate at the University of Michigan's Helen Zell Writers Program and a member of the multidisciplinary artists of color collective Dark Noise. She is a co-host of the Poetry Foundation's podcast, VS.
Paul Tran is Poetry Editor at The Offing. They live in Missouri, where they are the Chancellor’s Graduate Fellow in The Writing Program at Washington University in St. Louis and Poet-In-Residence at Urban Arts Alliance. Their work appears in The New Yorker, Prairie Schooner, RHINO, which gave them an Editor’s Prize, and elsewhere. Paul is the first Asian American since 1993 to win the Nuyorican Poets Cafe Grand Slam, placing Top 10 at the Individual World Poetry Slam and Top 2 at the National Poetry Slam.
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