READING: Fall of Freedom event at Cluster Museum Nov 21

I'll be reading a new poem "JingWei tian hai" at

Fall of Freedom: Surmountable, When United PERFORMANCE, Friday, November 21, 2025, 7:00 PM 8:15 PM, CLUSTER Museum, 307 North Main Street Ann Arbor, MI, 48104

CLUSTER Museum presents Surmountable, When United, an evening of dance in conversation with poetry, and in partnership with the nation-wide creative resistance protest Fall of Freedom.
The evening’s program includes Ann Arbor-based movement ensemble Dance Uprising presenting 3 separate pieces tackling the theme of choice in challenging times, alongside poets Zilka Joseph, Leigh Sugar, and Francis Kai-Hwa Wang.
This event has a sliding scale donation-based ticket fee, made at the door or ahead of time through Dance Uprising’s website. No one will be turned away at the door.
We encourage attendees to arrive early so you can participate in one of our earlier Fall of Freedom Events, including printmaking drop-ins. *Best for ages 10 years and older.
About Dance Uprising: Dance Uprising is the voice, the rebellion, the brain child for dancer/choreographer Amy Cadwallader. First and foremost, they seek to create a human connection with every dance encounter. And to create dance works that speak to the human condition, to our current societal influences, to equality and change.

https://clustermuseum.org/events/surmountable-when-united

EVENT: IS/LAND Angel Island - Until We Fill the Ocean

IS/LAND Asian American Pacific Islander Performance Collaborative

Sat., Nov. 15, 2-3pm EST, Detroit Public Library 

https://www.eventbrite.com/o/detroit-public-library-4535003353

EVENT AADL Writing to Save the World Fri Nov 14 5:30pm

Writing to Save the World, with Frances Kai-Hwa Wang

Friday November 14, 2025: 5:30pm to 7:30pm 

Ann Arbor District Library Downtown Library: Lower Level Program Room

How do we use our writing to create real world change? How do we find our voices and get our message out? How do we use writing to touch, inspire, persuade, and provoke readers to action? Learn simple but powerful methods to get the ideas out of our heads and onto the page. Part writing, part activism, a lot of heart, this class aspires to use the written word to create the change you want to see in the world. Bring a notebook and a pen.

Big thanks to CultureSource and Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation (AAACF) for the Washtenaw Artist Grant to help develop this writing workshop. 

And Thanks to AADL the best library there is!

https://aadl.org/node/646269

2025 A2 Community Bookfest at AADL Nov 9

2025 A2 Community Bookfest will be on Sunday, November 9 from 10AM - 5PM at the Downtown Library! 

Join us for a day celebrating books at the A2 Community Bookfest! Formerly the Kerrytown Bookfest, the A2 Community Bookfest is thrilled to return to downtown Ann Arbor for 2025!

Booksellers, publishers, authors, and more will be on the vendor floor from 10am-5pm and various activities for all ages, such as keynote author talks, hands-on crafts for kids and adults, storytimes, and discussion groups, will take place throughout the day. Additionally, the Fifth Avenue Press annual author reception will celebrate books published by the Library in the prior year.

The 2025 A2 Community Bookfest Headliner:

K-Ming Chang is the author of the 2021 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction finalist Bestiary, an inventive novel that pays homage to earlier Asian American brilliance while pushing up against—and innovating past—its boundaries. With a poetic voice full of energy, Chang speaks on paying homage to history, mythology, and family to reinvent the genre. Chang is also the author of Gods of Wants, Organ Meats, and Cecilia.

Wayne State Univ Press will be there and I'll be there for a little bit to sign books too!

https://aadl.org/bookfest