The Bay Area's Hub for Asian Pacific American Community Arts Since 1972

Reclaiming the Narrative

with Cathy Park Hong and Oliver Wang

 

Co-presented by the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Saint Mary's College and part of Litquake 2015.

 

Friday, October 16th, 8-10pm
Arc Gallery & Studios
1246 Folsom St., San Francisco

Renowned poet Cathy Park Hong (Engine Empire) will be joining acclaimed music writer Oliver Wang (Legions of Boom) to discuss the new narratives being forged today in Asian Pacific American literature.

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Cathy Park Hong is poetry editor of The New Republic and an associate professor at Sarah Lawrence College. Her poems have been published inPoetry, A Public Space, Paris Review, McSweeney's, Baffler, Boston Review, The Nation, and other journals. Her latest collection is Engine Empire.

 

Oliver Wang aka “O-Dub” is a music writer, scholar, DJ, and author of the new book Legions of Boom: Filipino American Mobile DJ Crews in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is a professor in sociology at Long Beach State, and hosts the renowned audioblog soul-sides.com.