2018 Massachusetts Poetry Festival

Kundiman and UndocuPoets presents a reading and discussion by poets whose perspectives resist and are therefore often excluded from traditional and expected Asian American immigrant narratives. The panelists will read work drawn from their experiences as transracial adoptees, “satellite babies,” and undocumented immigrants for whom migration and citizenship in the U.S. were not a choice. The presentation will conclude with a moderated conversation about how these authors choose to situate their identities as Asian American poets who are marginalized within an already marginalized community.