Poets and activists Loa Niumeitolu, Lehua Taitano, and Kim Shuck talk about the role of poetry in bringing youth back to the land.
Read MoreThis Saturday KSW will be tabling at the Hungry Ghost Festival in SF Chinatown!
Read MoreJoin us for the closing reception of Trust the Tides, from the inaugural AVA Lab cohort.
Read MoreJoin us for an evening of poetry, prose, and karaoke! This fun event will feature Christine Imperial (Author of Mistaken for an Empire), Trust the Tides exhibiting artist Michelle Lin, KSW's very own Jason Bayani, and more singer-readers to be announced.
Read MoreJoin us on July 27th for the 12th annual Beast Crawl Literary Festival in Oakland! We're thrilled to curate a round of incredible poets for this free, dynamic celebration of literary arts.
Read MoreJoin us for a day of wellness, centering, and connection with Yvonne Yeh, Peekaboo, and Mihee Kim.
Read MoreKearny Street Workshop presents Trust the Tides, an exhibition by the AVA (APA Visual Artists) Lab inaugural cohort.
Read MoreJoin us in celebrating the launch of the Interdisciplinary Writers Lab chapbook, put together by members of the 2023 cohort! This event will feature readings of poetry, nonfiction, and fiction by contributors to the chapbook, as well as special performances by Starlight Uranus and Mama Ganuush, who will also be MC'ing the event. Light food and drink will be provided, with alcoholic beverages available for purchase. Chapbooks will be available for purchase.
This special edition of KSW Presents is a gathering of community and healing featuring award winning poet, Diana Khoi Nguyen.
Read MoreKSW 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).
Read MoreKearny Street Workshop is partnering with the University of San Francisco School of Law's Internet & IP Justice Clinic to provide an Artists' Rights Workshop.
Read MoreInterested in joining the APAture 2024 general planning committee. Join our orientation and info session to learn what it takes to help us plan the only multi-disciplinary arts festival that puts the focus on emerging Asian Pacific American artists!
Read MoreKSW 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).
Read MoreCome listen to newly edited audio from KSW intergenerational oral history project, Asian American Virtual Histories
Read MoreApplications are now open for ARTogether’s Mentorship Hub for Poets & Literary Artists on December 10, 2023
Read MoreJoin us on Dec. 8th for KSW’s Winter Holiday Party!
Read MoreYELLO, YOU THERE? : Open Mic Tribute to Angelo Pamintuan
Read MoreKSW’s reading series returns with Jenny Odell and Cathy Park Hong at the Chinese Culture Center!
Read MoreJoin us for the culminating event of APAture, featuring an Artist Talk by our Visual Arts showcase artists!
Read MoreShelley Wong headlines APAture 2023’s literary arts showcase! Tickets now on sale!
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