AAPI Heritage Month - SHS Learning Commons: Poetry

If They Come for Us by Fatimah Asghar Presents poems from the Pakistani American and Muslim author speaking to her experiences being a young Pakistani Muslim and a woman in contemporary America.

The Year of Blue Water by Yanyi; Carl Phillips (Foreword by) A collection of poems by a Chinese American poet presented from a queer and trans perspective. Explores immigration, racism, mental wellness, and gender.

Floating, Brilliant, Gone by Franny Choi Beginning at loss and ending in reflective elation, Floating, Brilliant, Gone moves steadily through the many complicated textures of identity, anxiety, and absence. Using a language that is as volatile as the world it tries to occupy, these poems read like lucid dreams that jolt awake at the most unexpected moments.

No Matter the Wreckage by Sarah Kay; Sophia Janowitz (Illustrator) Lends a collection of sixty-one poems by the author celebrating family, travel, love, and unexpected connections.

Iep Jaltok by Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner Compiles a collection of poems by the author which address how modern society and climate change are affecting the lives of those living on the Marshall Islands and presents calls to justice on behalf of the people who live there.

Song I Sing by Bao Phi A collection of poems about Asian Americans and the racism they face..