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<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 1rem; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Please join the Asian American Cultural Center at Yale for an evening of poetry and conversation on Thursday, April 9, at 6:30 p.m. at the AACC (295 Crown Street). Featured
readers will include </span><b style="font-size: 1rem; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Subhashini Kaligotla, Leah Silvieus, Michelle
Phương Ting, </span></b><span style="font-size: 1rem; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">and </span><b style="font-size: 1rem; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Monica Ong</span></b><span style="font-size: 1rem; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">.
The post-reading Q&A will be facilitated by <b>Eileen Huang</b> (Timothy Dwight ‘22). If you have any questions, please reach out to </span><a href="mailto:leah.silvieus@yale.edu" target="_blank" style="font-size: 1rem; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">leah.silvieus@yale.edu</span></a><span style="font-size: 1rem; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">.</span><br>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:black">Subhashini Kaligotla</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:black"> is a poet and architectural historian of medieval India. A graduate of Columbia University's MFA
program in Creative Writing and a Kundiman poetry fellow, she has published in such journals as <i>The Caravan</i>, <i>diode</i>, <i>LUMINA</i>, <i>New England Review</i>, and <i>The Literary Review,</i> and in anthologies of Indian and diaspora poetry. Her
poetry collection, <i>Bird of the Indian Subcontinent</i>, was the winner of the Emerging Poets Prize and published in 2018 by The (Great) Indian Poetry Collective. She is Assistant Professor of South Asian Art at Yale University.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Monica Ong</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> is the author of Silent Anatomies (2015), selected by Joy Harjo as winner of the Kore Press First Book Award in poetry. A Kundiman poetry
fellow and MFA graduate in Digital Media at the Rhode Island School of Design, Ong has been awarded residencies most recently at the Millay Colony, the Fine Arts Work Center, and Yaddo. Based in Connecticut, she currently serves as the User Experience Designer
at the Yale Digital Humanities Laboratory.</span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Leah Silvieus</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> is the author most recently of the poetry collection <i>Arabilis</i> and is the co-editor of <i>The World I Leave You: Asian American
Poets on Faith and Spirit</i>. She holds an MFA from the University of Miami and has received fellowships from The National Book Critics Circle, Fulbright, and Kundiman. She is Senior Books Editor at <i>Hyphen</i> magazine and her criticism has appeared in <i>The
Harvard Review</i>, <i>The Believer</i>, and elsewhere. She currently studies literature and religion at Yale Divinity School. </span></p>
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<b style=""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:rgb(49,49,49); background-image:initial; background-position:initial; background-size:initial; background-repeat:initial; background-origin:initial; background-clip:initial">Michelle Phương
Ting</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:rgb(49,49,49); background-image:initial; background-position:initial; background-size:initial; background-repeat:initial; background-origin:initial; background-clip:initial"> is a poet
and curator based in New Haven.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; background-image:initial; background-position:initial; background-size:initial; background-repeat:initial; background-origin:initial; background-clip:initial"> </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:rgb(49,49,49)">Her
writing has been nominated for the “Best American Essays” series and most recently appeared in <i style="">Apogee,</i> <i style="">Wildness</i>, and <i style="">Tupelo Quarterly</i>. A Tin House alum and graduate of Yale University, she has received fellowships
from Kenyon Writers Workshop, Brooklyn Poets, Omnidawn, Fine Arts Work Center, and Lighthouse Writers Workshop. Currently, she serves as a curator at NXTHVN, an arts incubator in the Dixwell neighborhood, and at The Racial Imaginary Institute, where she is
co-organizing the 2020 Biennial, “On Nationalism: Borders & Belonging.”</span></p>
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