"Today I long for your sand-white shore, the crash of tides against my skin, my body floating on your salt-crusted surface." 🌊 Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, “Birth Country” by Nghiem Tran, in #TheMargins. aaww.org/birth-country/

Sharing some upcoming events ✨ Thur 9/25 @ 6 pm ET: A virtual @aaww-nyc.bsky.social event with @deliacai.bsky.social! RSVP here: www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-in...

"To die in your bed surrounded by / those who tended your flame is a luxury afforded to few." Poetry Editor @ritamookerjee.bsky.social published a poem in @aaww-nyc.bsky.social! buff.ly/421Hizy

At the deeply moving Voices for Gaza event at Town Hall. Please do consider donating to inara.org.

"He couldn’t even pretend to live her fantasy, and I see it slipping past her every day." Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "A Bollywood Story" by Gauri Awasthi, in #TheMargins. 🧊 aaww.org/a-bollywood-...

NEWS: The Library of Congress is announcing the appointment of Arthur Sze as the nation’s 25th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2025-2026. Sze will begin his laureateship with a reading of his work on Thursday, Oct. 9 at the Library. newsroom.loc.gov/news/library...

"imagine setting down your burden of questions & past harms. resting. basking." New in #TheMargins' #PoetryTuesday column, read "therapy exercise // tension" by Genevieve Hartman. ⛅🍀 aaww.org/therapy-exer...

"The Bajau think of homeland in terms of water, not land." 🌊 In a new multimedia essay in #TheMargins' translation column, Judi Mae "JM" Huck considers Sama, a language spoken in the Southern Philippines, its indigenous culture, and childhood lullabies. 🎶🐟 aaww.org/reconnecting...

I forgot to share my book tour info for WHERE ARE YOU REALLY FROM (@penguinpress.bsky.social)‬! I still have events in San Francisco and Las Vegas, as well as a virtual event with @aaww-nyc.bsky.social. Hope to see some of you there! I'll post details and links in the comments 💕

Virtual 9/25 at 3 pm PT/6 pm ET: @aaww-nyc.bsky.social with Delia Cai! Free to attend, RSVP at the link below: aaww.org/curation/vir...

"Little deer in the meadow of the night, night was the name/ of your first friend" Read this week's PoetryTuesday piece, "Nobody talks about the irises, so I give them to myself" by Rasha Abdulhadi, in #TheMargins. 🐍🪻 aaww.org/nobody-talks...

Dylan Tran, a 2025 Relegation x @dcwritersroom.bsky.social Fellow has published new work appearing @aaww-nyc.bsky.social’s The Margins today: aaww.org/dim-sum-%E9%...

Is this… my first Bluesky post?? Absolutely honored to have an essay out now with @aaww-nyc.bsky.social!! Thank you to the team for giving this piece a home aaww.org/how-to-cook-...

"Life was to be scrupulously documented, an archive to be mined for art." @terrynguyen.bsky.social examines avant-garde video artist #ShigekoKubota & her autobiographical work. Read more from "Searching for Shigeko Kubota" in #TheMargins. 📹🖼️ aaww.org/searching-fo...

"I am a hummingbird tongue, tucked to the back/ of my own skull." Read today's #PoetryTuesday piece, "The landscape of your heartbeats, more than 1,000 beats per minute" by @betsyaoki.bsky.social, in #TheMargins. 🐝 aaww.org/the-landscap...

i have a joyful little flash story out with @aaww-nyc.bsky.social !! 🥰 aaww.org/short-king/

Here’s a snap of author Nishant Batsha & Jafreen Uddin (exec director of @aaww-nyc.bsky.social) at Nishant’s NYC launch for his new novel “A Bomb Placed Close to the Heart” at Rizzoli Bookstore. Fantastic event, wonderful novel, beautiful bookstore. Put Nishant's novel on your summer reads list!

"Take my pearl/ for now, a moon for my Moon." 🌙 Read two poems, “Serenade” and “बहार / Spring,” by @rajivmohabir.bsky.social in #TheMargins' newest folio, MEHFIL, a celebration of playfulness and performance across queer South Asian diaspora. aaww.org/two-poems-by...

@aaww-nyc.bsky.social and IMGE Dance Kinetic Mixer Date: July 10, 2025 | 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM ET Type/Location: In Person / New York, NY buff.ly/rkZCw6F

"then he tells me Not to worry, there is no right place to live, just that you live in the right now" ☁️ Read today's #PoetryTuesday piece, "IN MY DREAMS, WE UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER" by Tiffany Tai, in #TheMargins. aaww.org/in-my-dreams/

Join @aaww-nyc.bsky.social for a celebration of MOTHERSALT by Mia Ayumi Malhotra and BECOMING GHOST by Cathy Lin Che, featuring readings by Sahar Muradi and Eugenia Leigh. Date: June 17, 2025 | 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM ET Type/Location: In Person / New York, NY buff.ly/mUVvbYm

"hungry / we paw each other good" Read Aishvarya Arora’s poem, “T4T,” in MEHFIL, the latest folio in #TheMargins edited by Rajat Dayal Singh, with art by Jasjyot Singh Hans. 🌈 aaww.org/t4t/

Yukti Narang has a new flash fiction piece up at @aaww-nyc.bsky.social aaww.org/when-a-lamb-... Read! And then check out her story "The Kitchen Glob" in THE BLAFT BOOK OF ANTI-CASTE SF www.blaft.com/collections/...

It feels really special for this poem to have found a home in @aaww-nyc.bsky.social's #TheMargins at the tail end of #aapiheritagemonth! Many thanks to the team for looking after this little zuihitsu on the Bosphorus 🕌🫖🌹🐈 #PoetryTuesday aaww.org/bosphorus-ap...

"it won’t be easy, they say,/ and I want to say show me an easy life" 🤲 Drawing on the structure of a raga, Shebati Sengupta’s poem begins in a pain that lilts, but ends in a breathless flourish. Read "Sa is for Sunflowers" in #TheMargins' MEHFIL folio. aaww.org/sa-is-for-su... #mehfil

"In this version, we’re both married. Happily." Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "Oneiric Oneirically" by Tuhin Bhowal, in #TheMargins. 🚙💍 aaww.org/oneiric-onei...

"Between the seventies and nineties, Mott Street was feared. It was home to the Ghost Shadows Gang, or 鬼影幫, 'gwaiyingbong'." Chloe K. Li explores her family's intertwined history with NYC's Chinatown in "The Gangs of Chinatown" for #TheMargins' Open City column. 🏮 aaww.org/the-gangs-of...

“I learn to breastfeed during a heat wave. In Chicago, where I live, the heat index reads almost 120 degrees in August 2023.” Read Nina Li Coomes’s “Breastfeeding During a Heatwave” in The Margins (@aaww-nyc.bsky.social) this #AsianPacificAmericanHeritageMonth: aaww.org/breastfeedin...

“What, in actuality, is lost in translation? Meaning? Voice? Sound? How does a translator choose what to lose and what to preserve from the original work?” Read Wendy Chen’s recent essay, “The Art of Loss,” in The Margins (@aaww-nyc.bsky.social) this week! #APAHeritageMonth aaww.org/translation-...

"Ask me, if the dangle/ of her flesh made her look monstrous." Read today's #PoetryTuesday piece, "A list of things my mother compared my thighs to" by Chau Anh Nguyen, in #TheMargins. 🌸🦵 aaww.org/a-list-of-th...

Congratulations to Cathy Linh Che on the release of BECOMING GHOST, her latest poetry collection from @wspbooks.bsky.social. 🩵 Read "'I love the smell of napalm...': Remix" and "Live-Stream" now, in #TheMargins' #PoetryTuesday column: aaww.org/two-poems-by...

"I am learning to birth pearls from a dull knife." Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "DREAM DIVINATIONS OR TRANSLATING MY MERIDIANS INTO RITUALS" by Claudia Yang, in #TheMargins. 🔪☁️ aaww.org/dream-divina...

"The bartender smells of lemon, as if she played hide-and-seek in a lemon grove and just came out." Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece by Yuki Tanaka, from his debut collection, “Chronicle of Drifting." 🍋 aaww.org/from-chronic...

Join author @samina-ali.bsky.social and @aaww-nyc.bsky.social director Jafreen Uddin at @strandbookstore.bsky.social's Columbus Ave location for a celebration of her memoir PIECES YOU'LL NEVER GET BACK! RSVP Now: www.strandbooks.com/events/event...

"When formula-using parents and breastfeeding parents are pitted against each other in the realm of the environment, I yearn to point to the hands that build the arena of our conflict to begin with." Nina Li Coomes in The Margins @aaww-nyc.bsky.social:

"Another part of me knows that for any culture to survive, it has to adapt." Read more from Malaka Gharib in #TheMargins' column, "A Taste of Climate," that considers the intersection of food and climate. 🥘 aaww.org/how-to-make-...

"To be your mother, your food source, to obliterate my sense of self in the name of milk-making, is to hold on to a treacherous hope for a better future not just for you, but for every and all." 🌱 Read more from Nina Li Coomes in #TheMargins 🌎 aaww.org/breastfeedin...

Los Angeles! Come stop by stalls 637-641 at #AWP2025 for the Asian / American Book Fair, check out Blaft's Anti-Caste SF & Indian pulp in translation, @kuzhalimanickavel.bsky.social titles, @kayapress.bsky.social & @aaww-nyc.bsky.social & Slant'd & Sampaguita Press and allkindsastuph!!

"Dusk. I am drunk by the fence that lines the east, my sleeves filled with delicate fragrance." Read "醉花陰" or "Drunk in the Shade of Flowers" by Li Qingzhao in #TheMargins, translated from Chinese by Wendy Chen. 🌙 aaww.org/translation-...

"I’ve watched his heavy accent cleave a soldier into two, then four with every ق." Read today's #FlashFictionFriday piece, "Lush" by leena aboutaleb, in #TheMargins. 🐍 aaww.org/lush/

Happy Nowruz and happy spring! 🌷 Revisit our "Spring Will Come" notebook, originally published in #TheMargins in 2023, featuring fifteen poems, short stories, and translations from writers connected to East Turkistan. 🌱 aaww.org/springwillco...

And next we have Yanyi! First from him is The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir by Thi Bui ( @abramscomicarts.bsky.social ) With these supporting writings - from @aaww-nyc.bsky.social: aaww.org/being-brave-... and - www.nerdophiles.com/2017/06/20/t...

Pitch our Open City column! 📍 We're looking for reported stories from across America that focus on Asian and Muslim communities. This will be the first time we're opening up to places beyond NYC and across the country. 🤩 Submissions reviewed on a rolling basis. Email pitches to [email protected].

"Since you just arrived from a grave, I know/ there is probably so much you can’t say." Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "Letter to the Woman Who Kissed Me to Communicate" by Mark Kyungsoo Bias, in #TheMargins. 💋 aaww.org/letter-to-th...

"no hay razón/ solo una bandera desquiciada/ una estrella asesina y desquiciada" "there is no logic/ only an insane flag/ a murdering, deranged star" New in #TheMargins, read Jessica Atal's poem "Caos" ("Chaos"), translated by Mandy Gutmann-Gonzalez. ✨ aaww.org/caos-chaos/

"In my memories, my grandmother’s face is always shifting, an image I cannot pin down." 👄 Read this week's #FlashFiction piece, "Hereditary" by Nafisa A. Iqbal, in #TheMargins. aaww.org/hereditary/

"sandals, slip-ons, flip flops,// the occasional winter boot/ mom is gone" Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "Shoe Shrine" by JM Huck, in #TheMargins! 🥾 aaww.org/shoe-shrine/

On 3/6, join the Whiting Foundation at our 2025 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant info session! Learn more about the grant (deadline 4/23) and ask our staff your questions. Find the registration link and more info about the application here: www.whiting.org/writers/crea...

"Though I live in a pure and serene world, my soul still responds to the trials of love." Read classic Vietnamese folk tale "The Story of Từ Thức’s Marriage with a Fairy," by Nguyễn Dữ translated by Miên Túc, in #TheMargins. 🧚 aaww.org/translation-...

"When I arrive for dinner, she is massaging/ her yellow-callused sole, little toe pink as a newborn." Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "When I Ask Ammā To Sponsor Me For Pride Run 10K" by Gayathiri Kamalakanthan, in #TheMargins. 🏃 aaww.org/when-i-ask-a...