This week, program director Allison Sansone chats with writer and professor Aaron Bobrow-Strain, whose book The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez tells the true story of a Mexican teen mother journeying through the U.S. immigration system and the obstacles she faces.

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June is Immigrant Heritage Month and we are celebrating all month long by sharing past programs presented in conjunction with our special exhibit My America: Immigrant and Refugee Writers Today. This exhibit has been extended through 2021 and you can explore it in person at the American Writers Museum or online at My-America.org.

This week, we talk with poet Khaled Mattawa about his recent collection Fugitive Atlas, a sweeping, impassioned collection of poems that touches on themes of immigration, occupation, environmental destruction, and more.

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June is Immigrant Heritage Month and we are celebrating all month long by sharing past programs presented in conjunction with our special exhibit My America: Immigrant and Refugee Writers Today. This exhibit has been extended through 2021 and you can explore it in person at the American Writers Museum or online at My-America.org.

We kick off this special series with Rebecca Deng, who shares her story as a South Sudanese refugee finding a home in the U.S. in her memoir What They Meant for Evil. This conversation originally took place December 6, 2019 and was recorded live at the American Writers Museum.

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This week, Nicole Chung discusses her memoir All You Can Ever Know with fellow writer Rebecca Makkai. This conversation originally took place November 27th, 2018 and was recorded live at the American Writers Museum.

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Today is Bob Dylan’s 80th birthday...may he stay forever young. To celebrate, we caught up with Sean Latham, Director of the Institute for Bob Dylan Studies and editor of the new essay anthology The World of Bob Dylan. This program took place May 13th, 2021 and was recorded live via Zoom.

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May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month and we continue our celebration of that with writers Rowan Hisayo Buchanan and T Kira Madden who discuss their writing habits and contributions to the book Go Home!, an anthology of Asian diasporic writers musing on the notion of “home”. This conversation originally took place March 12th, 2020 and was recorded live at the American Writers Museum.

Fun fact: this was our last in-person program before the pandemic. And the title of the book we discuss is Go Home...we couldn’t make this stuff up!

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May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month and we continue our celebration of that with June Hur, author of The Silence of Bones. This conversation originally took place April 29th, 2020 and was recorded live via Zoom.

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May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month and we begin our celebration of that with R. O. Kwon, author of The Incendiaries. This conversation originally took place July 31, 2019 and was recorded live.

You can see R. O. Kwon live at the American Writers Museum on June 5, 2024! She will be here to read from and discuss her newest novel, Exhibit. She takes her investigations into desire, identity, and ambition to new heights in this novel, hailed by Pulitzer Prize-winner Andrew Sean Greer as "brisk, jolting, brilliant, beautiful, true" and with "the most exquisite prose in the bookstore." Books will be available for sale and Kwon will sign them following the program. Learn more here!

Kwon was also one of more than 30 writers featured in our special exhibit My America: Immigrant and Refugee Writers Today, which you can explore online at My-America.org.

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Our National Poetry Month celebrations continue with acclaimed poets Rigoberto González and Johanny Vázquez Paz. This program took place April 15th, 2021 and was recorded live via Zoom.

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Our National Poetry Month celebrations continue with indigenous poets Layli Long Soldier, Mark Turcotte, and Tanaya Winder who read from and discuss the recent book When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry. This program took place November 19th, 2020 and was recorded live via Zoom.

Quick programming note: The work Layli Long Soldier reads is also a visual poem. Video of this program is available on the American Writers Museum’s YouTube channel if you are interested in seeing the images that accompany her work. You can watch it at this link here.

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