| JanuVirtual AWP Pedagogy: Reclaiming Genre Fiction for the Creative Writing Classroom, Sponsored by Bloomsbury PublishingĪWP board member and creative writing professor DeMisty D. Thank you to The Givens Foundation for African American Literature for sponsoring this Black History Month event. With introduction by Dante Micheaux, Cave Canem’s twenty-fifth anniversary curator and artistic advisor.
Linda, Maya, and Afaa relate the influence Cave Canem has had on their own work and the work of others as a safe haven for Black creators to realize their full potential. ET as poets Linda Susan Jackson, Maya Marshall, and Afaa Weaver read a selection of their poems and discuss Cave Canem throughout its fruitful twenty-five years. | FebruVirtual AWP in Conversation: Celebrating Black Poetry with Cave Canem, Sponsored by The Givens Foundation for African American LiteratureĬelebrate Black poets this month and all months! Join us on Tuesday, February 22, 2022, at 6:00 p.m. Setting and place are at the center of our stories and identities-yet globalization and territorial violences create a complicated spatial “belonging." How do we place ourselves in our writing? Braving political strife, war, and displacement coupled with traumas of misrepresentation by dominant narratives, five women grounded in (global) Lebanese, Azerbaijani, Palestinian, and Pakistani cultures write and/or translate poetry, fiction, and memoir to recast histories and cultures in our own voices. | MaIn The Cosmopolis of Memory Women on Cultural Selfhood in a Globalized World Taiwanese American writers can tell their stories from a safe distance their words are urgent and necessary to counteract this erasure. China thwarts Taiwan’s sovereignty not just through diplomacy but through language, by censoring perceived dissent and controlling the narrative. Taiwan is the twentieth-largest economy in the world and a modern democracy, but it is blocked from membership in the United Nations and World Health Organization and can’t even compete in the Olympics under its own name. | Ma#AWP22 Writing Ourselves into Existence: Taiwanese American Voices His first collection of poetry, How The Water Holds Me, was awarded Editors' Selection by Bull City Press and is available now. Luthun’s work has earned him such honors as being named Best of the Net, in addition to fellowships through Kundiman, The Watering Hole, and the Kresge Foundation. The son of Palestinian Muslim immigrants from Gaza, he is a Kresge Arts in Detroit fellow that earned his MFA in Poetry from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Enjoy his poems: "The Summer My Cousin Went Missing", "Al Bahr", and "I Go to the Backyard to Pick Mint Leaves for My Mother" in this video.īio: Tariq Luthun is a Detroit-born, Dearborn-raised community organizer, data consultant, and Emmy Award-winning poet. Virtual | Ap"How The Water Holds Me" by Tariq LuthunĮmmy Award-winning poet Tariq Luthun reads from his collection How The Water Holds Me for National Arab American Heritage Month. The webinar covers event proposal deadlines, requirements, best practices, selection criteria, and acceptance rates. She will cover general information about event proposals, the different components of an event proposal, a timeline for proposals and what happens afterwards, what to do if your event is accepted for the 2023 AWP Conference & Bookfair, and where on the AWP website you should look for information about the event proposal system.ĪWP Events Coordinator Aubrey Kamppila gives an overview of the event proposal and selection process for the 2023 AWP Conference & Bookfair. Join AWP Conference Events Coordinator, Aubrey Kamppila, for this short webinar on AWP's event proposal process for #AWP23.