This special edition of KSW Presents is a gathering of community and healing featuring award winning poet, Diana Khoi Nguyen.
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KSW Presents is back and we’re bringing together Northern California Book Award winner Nathalie Khankan, author of quiet orient riot (Omnidawn, 2021) and Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship Award winner Tariq Luthun, author of How the Water Holds Me (Bull City Press, 2020).
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KSW Presents is back and we’re bringing together Sarah Ghazal Ali and Soham Patel. We’re celebrating the newest collections from both of these stunning poets Theophanies (Alice James Books, 2024) and all one in the end—/water (Delete, 2023).
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KSW’s reading series returns with Jenny Odell and Cathy Park Hong at the Chinese Culture Center!
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KSW Presents Preeti Vangani and Jenny Qi in celebration of Preeti's latest book, Mother Tongue Apologize.
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Hold tight! Our next reading will be announced, shortly.
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On Saturday, June 13, as part of API Cultural Center of San Francisco's United States of Asian America Festival, KSW Presents Aria Aber, author of Hard Damages (University of Nebraska Press, 2019), and Monica Sok, author of A Nail the Evening Hangs On (Copper Canyon Press. 2020). Award-winning poets and children of refugees, their books explore the impact of inherited wars—Aber, through interrogating historical and personal implications of Afghan American relations, and Sok, through myth- and memory-making of Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge regime.
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