I’m delighted to join poets Chris Santiago, Doug Kearney, Keith Wilson, and Mag Gabbert for this panel on visual poetry. Hope to see you at AWP in Kansas City this year!

Sight Singing: Poetry and the Visual

This panel explores the intersections between language and visual art through the lens of visual poetry. Our panelists will engage with questions about the role of design, typography, poetic images, so-called white- or negative space, and how visual elements can expand our understanding of poetic meaning. We will examine a range of visual poetry forms, including concrete poetry, collages, and multimedia works, to showcase the playfully diverse ways poets blend text and image to create meaning.

Panel Gallery: (En)Visioning Violence
Monica joins a panel of writers to discuss making art in this political moment. With Quan Tran and Nay Saysourinho, moderated by Na-Rae Kim.

Many say that the pandemic made visible anti-Asian violence. But what does anti-Asian violence look like in the past and present? How have writers engaged various forms of violence? And what are some of the violences that the writers face for how they are seen or what they create?

Three Asian American writers discuss how they see violence and art, and how they see writing in a time of violence. What does it mean that they are seen as Asian American writers in our time? How do you write, and not write, as an Asian American, especially at this moment?