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First Sunday Prose Reading
May 3, 4-5:30pm
May's First Sunday Prose Reading Series is celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. Featured readers will be Lisa Kwong Ellen Wu. Open mic to follow!
A native of Radford, Virginia, Lisa Kwong is AppalAsian, an Affrilachian Poet, and author of Becoming AppalAsian (Glass Lyre Press) and a Weatherford Award in Poetry nominee. Her poetry and creative nonfiction have appeared in The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume III: Contemporary Appalachia (Second Edition); Untelling Magazine, Women Speak, A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia, Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, Anthology of Appalachian Writers, Still: The Journal, Best New Poets, Appalachian Heritage, Pluck!, and other publications. She is currently working on her second book of poems and a memoir.
Ellen Wu is Associate Professor of History at Indiana University Bloomington. She is author of The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority and Overrepresented: The Surprising History of Asian Americans and Racial Justice (both from Princeton University Press). Wu’s research and writing has been featured in a variety of platforms, including Bloomington’s Limestone Post, Slate, NPR, Goop, the comedy show Adam Ruins Everything, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, and the PBS documentary series Asian Americans.
Come early to sign up, to shop, and to get a drink and a treat before the event begins.
First Sunday Prose Reading
May 3, 4-5:30pm
May's First Sunday Prose Reading Series is celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. Featured readers will be Lisa Kwong Ellen Wu. Open mic to follow!
A native of Radford, Virginia, Lisa Kwong is AppalAsian, an Affrilachian Poet, and author of Becoming AppalAsian (Glass Lyre Press) and a Weatherford Award in Poetry nominee. Her poetry and creative nonfiction have appeared in The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume III: Contemporary Appalachia (Second Edition); Untelling Magazine, Women Speak, A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia, Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, Anthology of Appalachian Writers, Still: The Journal, Best New Poets, Appalachian Heritage, Pluck!, and other publications. She is currently working on her second book of poems and a memoir.
Ellen Wu is Associate Professor of History at Indiana University Bloomington. She is author of The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority and Overrepresented: The Surprising History of Asian Americans and Racial Justice (both from Princeton University Press). Wu’s research and writing has been featured in a variety of platforms, including Bloomington’s Limestone Post, Slate, NPR, Goop, the comedy show Adam Ruins Everything, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, and the PBS documentary series Asian Americans.
Come early to sign up, to shop, and to get a drink and a treat before the event begins.
Date & Time
May 3, 2026
4:00pm - 5:30pm
Location
Juniper Art Gallery
615 W. Kirkwood Ave
Bloomington, IN 47404
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