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AAPI Heritage Month Author Reading and Community Celebration with APANO

Thu, May 29 from 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT
716 SE Grand Ave Portland, OR 97214

Literary Arts and APANO are so excited to invite four incredible writers to read from their work and celebrate community during AAPI Heritage Month. Light refreshments will be served, and community building is encouraged! Bring a friend, make a friend, and absorb some wonderful stories.

 

About AAPI Heritage Month

In the month of May we take time to reflect and celebrate the important role that Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders (AANHPIs) have played in our shared history. Explore Smithsonian events happening online and in-person and find resources, podcasts, and collection items to learn more about AANHPI contributions. – Smithsonian

 


About APANO

APANO unites Asians to build power, develop leaders, and advance equity through organizing, advocacy, community development and cultural work. We envision a just world where Asians and communities who share our aspirations and struggles have the power, resources, and voice to determine our own futures, and where we work in solidarity to drive political, social, economic, and cultural change.

 

Ching-In Chen

Ching-In Chen is a genderqueer Chinese American hybrid writer, community organizer and teacher. They are author of The Heart's Traffic and recombinant (2018 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry winner) as well as chapbooks to make black paper sing and Kundiman for Kin :: Information Retrieval for Monsters (Leslie Scalapino Award Finalist). Chen is also co-editor of The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities and Here Is a Pen: an Anthology of West Coast Kundiman Poets. They have received fellowships from Kundiman, Lambda, Watering Hole, Can Serrat, Imagining America and Jack Straw Cultural Center. www.chinginchen.com
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Kalehua Kim

Kalehua Kim is a Native Hawaiian poet living in the Pacific Northwest. Her poems have appeared in Poetry Northwest, Denver Quarterly, and ‘Ōiwi, A Native Hawaiian Journal. Her first poetry collection, Mele, is forthcoming from Trio House Press in July, 2025. You can find her online at kalehuakim.com or  @kalekim on Bluesky.
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Amy Lam

Amy Lam is a writer and editor based in Portland, Oregon. She was formerly the deputy editor at diaCRITICS, exploring arts and culture of Vietnamese and SE Asian diaspora. She had been a contributing editor and cohost of Backtalk podcast at Bitch Media, and editorial lead at On She Goes sharing the world of women of color and travel.
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Ami Patel

Ami Patel (she/her) is a queer, diasporic South Asian poet and young adult fiction writer. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee, a Tin House YA Fiction alum, and an IPRC 2023-2024 re/source resident. Ami’s poetry is published in Beloit Poetry Journal, Moss, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, They Rise Like a Wave: An Anthology of Asian American Women Poets, and others. She is a 2024 Oregon Literary Fellowship recipient.
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