We the gathered heat: Asian American and Pacific Islander poetry, performance, and spoken word

880-01 Fight. An ode to an unnamed CHamoru ancestor / Megan Roberto Williams

Breaking up with Captain Cook on our 250th anniversary / Selina Tusitala Marsh

Shadowless shadow / Marilyn Chin

aorta / Logan Lee

When my grandmother asks me about the soy sauce in America / Lacy Nguyen

I'm a woman, not a flava / Yellow Rage (Michelle Myers & Catzie Vilayphonh)

Sons / Haunani-Kay Trask

The golden age / Zoe Dorado

Excuse me, ameriKa / Anida Youe Ali

Chanting the waters / Craig Santos Perez

Another spell for hole / Ching-In Chen

ode to a colonizer / Manuia Heinrich Sue

God Bless Deli speaks to my gentrified neighborhood / Usman Hameedi

Knock twice / Teresa Carrasco

oceanus nullius / Sara Tenamoeata Segura Kahanamoku

Seiseiwei-Paddle Onward / Carol Ann Carl

Anything but country / Janice Lobo Sapigao

Postnatural / Luisa A. Igloria

Imaginary photo album, or When we die, our Polaroids speak to our living descendants / Art 25: Art in the 25th Century

Show us your papers / Sham-e-Ali Nayeem

Fists full of flowers / D'Lo

Grizzly bear / Giles Li

why did he run? / Juliana Hu Pegues

Note to self work / Beau Sia

Jungle, at voltage / Hari Alluri.

Love. Dear brown girl, / Barbara Jane Reyes

My skin has never sang ex-patriot / Sagaree Jain

When I think of ea / Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio

fish-hair woman / Isabella Avila Borgeson

I make a new song for myself / Carlina Duan

A theory of colonialism / Sudip Bhattacharya

Tiktiki / Ngaio Simmons

Sāmoan praise poem in the key of diaspora / Terisa Siagatonu

Where are the Americans? / Kelsey Ichikawa

Calls to demand the return (for a fair price, in good faith), or With typhoon wind: we, prisoners of conscience, protest bars and bullets, swallowed fledglings, the gone hurricane of pelicans (from alcatraces), and further desecrations / Lehua M. Taitano

Bioluminescence / Paul Tran

No less than blood, no more than kin / Ami Patel

My mother inspects my pores over FaceTime / Nina Coyle

letter to the streets that burned you / Angela Peñaredondo

Asian American girls, I love you / Misha Ponnuraju

Reza's Restaurant, Chicago, 1997 / Kaveh Akbar

Nihari, or Bone stew / Nuha Fariha

Gazing at the Grand Canyon from the moon / Jess X. Snow

Dear Mākaha / Punahele

filipino-american harana / Daniel Nero

ia ora tātou / Teatuahere Teiti-Gierlach

For sisters who pray with fire / No'u Revilla

dreams of savai'i / Ryan Tito Gapelu

the most Taiwanese thing about me / Juliana Chang

Matagi mālohi = Strong winds / Fenton Lutunatabua

I go to a poetry reading in Oakland and I am reborn / Saba Keramati.