Contemporary Queer and Trans Asian American Poetry (S21)
Readings and events for Contemporary Queer and Trans Asian American Poetry, Spring 2021 at Dartmouth College.
[Image: The required texts for this class, listed below, stacked together on a desk.]
Required Text(s)
Orientations (1984), Richard Fung (film).
Love Cake (2011), Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha.
The Heart’s Traffic (2008), Ching-In Chen.
Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation (2018), David L. Eng and Shinhee Han.
Bite Hard (1999), Justin Chin.
Pamela: A Novel (1999), Pamela Lu.
Bright Felon (2009), Kazim Ali.
ESL or You Weren’t Here (2018), Aldrin Valdez.
A System of Satellites (2019), Như Xuân Nguyễn.
Re:Orientations (2016), Richard Fung (film).
Dancing on My Own (2020), Alexandra Cuerdo (film).
The Country Without a Post Office (1997), Agha Shahid Ali.
Recommended Text(s)
The Essential Poet’s Glossary (2017), Edward Hirsch.
Queer and Trans Asian American Poetry Series
Thursday, April 15 12:30–1:30pm EST
Ching-In Chen (Recording)
Thursday, April 22 12:30–1:30pm EST
Dorothy Wang (Recording)
Thursday, May 6, 12:30–1:30pm EST
David Eng
Tuesday, May 18 12:30–1:30pm EST
Aldrin Valdez and Như Xuân Nguyễn
Tuesday May 25 12:30–1:30pm EST
Alexandra Cuerdo and Richard Fung
