Asian Reads

What happens when everything falls away, when those you call on in times of need are themselves calling out for rescue? In his highly anticipated s...

Notes From Your BooksellerWhen tragedy strikes, so many people respond with "I have no words." The job of the poet is to show us that we DO have ...

"What our lives permit us to perceive as givens, Nguyen reveals as mere conditions, inextricably tied to and guided by greater forces—from the ec...

Barbara Jane Reyes answers the questions of Filipino American girls and young women of color with bold affirmations of hard-won empathy, fierce int...

Hardly War, Don Mee Choi's major second collection, defies history, national identity, and militarism. Using artifacts from Choi's father, a prof...

Selected by Aimee Nezhukumatathil as the winner of the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize, Danni Quintos carves a space for brown girls and weird girls ...

Awakening to histories personal and social, Conversation Among Stones is a meditation on memory and identity. Through fields of wild grass, restles...

Warm tenderness and fiery critique sit side-by-side in Bolina's English as A Second Language, a collection that skewers, laments, and celebrates Am...

Czaerra Galicinao Ucol blends emotion, wit, and water sign wisdom in their debut collection, Pisces Urges. They reckon with the hard-earned blessin...

The title of this debut collection, Nothing Follows, is reappropriated from a government documentestablishing the beginning of a refugee family's t...

Debut collection of poems that weaves stories of family history, war, and migration. Dong Li's The Orange Tree is a collection of narrative poems...

Two books bound together that interrogate race--one from the perspective of a man of color, and the other from the perspective of a white man. Thi...