APA Heritage Month Poetry Reading List
Entirely subjective list of APIA poetry titles, unapologetically skewed in favor of Filipinx authors. On my personal bookshelf, on my to read list.
- Kazim Ali, The Secret Room: a string quartet
- Hari Alluri, The Flayed City
- Jason Bayani, Amulet
- Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge, Four Year Old Girl
- Arlene Biala, her beckoning hands
- Nick Carbó, El Grupo McDonalds
- Nick Carbó, Secret Asian Man
- Catalina Cariaga, Cultural Evidence
- Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Dictee
- Jennifer S. Cheng, Moon: Letters, Maps, Poems
- Justin Chin, Gutted
- Franny Choi, Floating, Brilliant, Gone
- Frances Chung, Crazy Melon and Chinese Apple
- Rachelle Cruz, God’s Will for Monsters
- Oliver de la Paz, Names Above Houses
- Linh Dinh, Borderless Bodies
- Tarfia Faizullah, Seam
- Tarfia Faizullah, Registers of Illuminated Villages
- Sesshu Foster, City Terrace Field Manual
- Sesshu Foster, City of the Future
- Jan-Henry Gray, Documents
- Lily Hoang, Changing
- Lawson Fusao Inada, Drawing the Line
- Lisa Linn Kanai, Sista Tongue
- Bhanu Kapil, The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers
- Bhanu Kapil, Incubation: A Space for Monsters
- Alan Chong Lau, Blues and Greens
- Julayne Lee, Not My White Savior
- Russell Leong, The Country of Dreams and Dust
- Kenji C. Liu, Monsters I Have Been
- Cheena Marie Lo, A Series of Un/Natural/Disasters
- Rajiv Mohabir, The Cowherd’s Son
- Yoko Ono, Grapefruit
- Elmer Omar Bascos Pizo, Leaving Our Shadows Behind Us
- Jai Arun Ravine, แล้ว and then entwine
- Bino A. Realuyo, The Gods We Worship Live Next Door
- Amanda Ngoho Reavey, Marilyn
- Barbara Jane Reyes, Invocation to Daughters
- Al Robles, Rappin With Ten Thousand Carabaos in the Dark
- Tony Robles, Fingerprints of a Hunger Strike
- Sam Roxas-Chua, Saying Your Name Three Times Underwater
- Albert Saijo, Outspeaks a Rhapsody
- Janice Lobo Sapigao, microchips for millions
- Solmaz Sharif, Look
- Aimee Suzara, Souvenir
- Sokunthary Svay, Apsara in New York
- Eileen R. Tabios, Reproductions of the Empty Flagpole
- Jeff Tagami, October Light
- Lehua Taitano, A Bell Made of Stones
- Souvankham Thammavongsa, Light
- Kai Cheng Thom, A Place Called No Homeland
- Angela Narciso Torres, Blood Orange
- Truong Tran, Dust and Conscience
- Haunani Kay Trask, Night is a Sharkskin Drum
- Mai Der Vang, Afterland
- Preeti Vangani, Mother Tongue Apologize
- José Garcia Villa, The Anchored Angel
- José Garcia Villa, Doveglion
- Khaty Xiong, Poor Anima
- Lawrence Lacambra Ypil, The Experiment of the Tropics