THINKING ITS PRESENCE: THE RACIAL IMAGINARY

Dorothy Wang is Professor of American Studies at Williams College, where she spearheaded the founding of Asian American studies. Her monograph, Thinking Its Presence: Form, Race, and Subjectivity in Contemporary Asian American Poetry (Stanford University Press, 2013), won the Association... Read More →

Sherwin Bitsui is the author of Flood Song (Copper Canyon Press) and Shapeshift (University of Arizona Press). He Diné is of the Bįį’bítóó’nii’ Tódi’chii’nii clan and is born for the Tlizilłani’ clan. He is from White Cone, Arizona on the Navajo Reservation. His... Read More →

Tisa Bryant makes work that often traverses the boundaries of genre, culture and history, with an enduring fascination with fusing critical and creative writing through the other arts into distinctive registers and new forms. She is the author of Unexplained Presence, a collection... Read More →

John Keene is the author, co-author, and translator of a handful of books, including the poetry collection Punks: New & Selected Poems, which received a 2022 National Book Award, a 2022 Thom Gunn Award from the Publishing Triangle, a 2022 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry, and... Read More →