Monday, November 23 7pm
Asian American Writers’ Workshop
112 West 27th Street, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10001
Join us to celebrate the release of Union, a new anthology assembled by international literary journal Drunken Boat. Commemorating 50 years of Singaporean independence (as well as the journal’s 15-year anniversary), Union draws out underlying connections between Singapore and the United States, both heterogenous, cosmopolitan democracies. Ravi Shankar, the founding editor of Drunken Boat, will emcee a reading featuring acclaimed American writers Rachel Hadas, Rand Richards Cooper, Sabina Murray, Stephanie Strickland, and Gregory Pardlo, who just won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. They’ll be joined by Singaporean writers Christine Chia, Amanda Lee Koe, and Jee Leong Koh. Alvin Pang, who co-edited the anthology with Shankar, writes: “Here are poems and fiction that interrogate boundaries, and push against the confines of geography, history and culture… Here too is the shock of recognition that what ultimately unifies us may well be a shared loneliness and the desire for connection.”
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