'War Brides of Japan' To Take Focus in New Documentary - NBC News

my article for nbc asian america on Yayoi Winfrey's documentary!

"Japanese 'war brides' were our very sweet and loving mothers who accepted their former enemies as their spouses; then, raised their children in a country that was often hostile towards them," wrote Winfrey on the film's fundraising page. "Yet, they persevered. At the very least, we owe them recognition for allowing their love to transcend war and hate."

'War Brides of Japan' To Take Focus in New Documentary - NBC News

The First Multiracial Miss Universe Japan Has Been Crowned - NBC News.com

My article for NBC News Asian America re first multiracial hapa Miss Universe Japan, Ariana Miyamoto

"In a country where the majority of fashion beauty magazines and TV shows are reigned by 'hāfu' models and actors," filmmaker and co-director of the film "Hafu," Lara Perez Takagi told NBC News, "It was actually about time that a mixed-race Japanese girl won the Miss Universe pageant."

The First Multiracial Miss Universe Japan Has Been Crowned - NBC News.com

'Hapa-palooza' Celebrates Canada's Mixed-Heritage Residents - NBC News.com

My article at NBC News Asian America:

“Growing up there was little to no awareness about the experiences of being mixed,” says festival co-founder Zarah Martz. “Canada prides itself on being a multicultural country, and Hapa-palooza explores the blending of various cultures and backgrounds.”

'Hapa-palooza' Celebrates Canada's Mixed-Heritage Residents - NBC News.com

Nina McConigley's Book 'Cowboys and East Indians' Wins PEN Award - NBC News.com

My interview with hapa writer and author of "Cowboys and East Indians" Nina McConigley for NBCNews Asian America with shoutouts to Ravi Shankar May-lee Chai Bich Minh Nguyen We Need Diverse Books #weneeddiversebooks. Now raise your hand if you were in 4H too...

“Nina's short stories embody the complex, richly textured and unexpected stories of being an outsider in the wildness of the American west and her compelling collection ‘Cowboys and East Indians’ is impossible to put down,” said Asian-American poet and editor of Drunken Boat, Ravi Shankar.

Nina McConigley's Book 'Cowboys and East Indians' Wins PEN Award - NBC News.com

UCSB

My heart is heavy and my thoughts are with all the families in Santa Barbara.

Paisley Rekdal Poetry Reading Thursday, February 20, 5:10 pm, UMMA

Paisley Rekdal
Poetry Reading
Thursday, February 20, 5:10 pm
UMMA Helmut Stern Auditorium

Paisley Rekdal is the author of a book of essays, The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee; the 

hybrid genre, photo-text memoir Intimate; and four books of poetry: A Crash of Rhinos, Six 

Girls Without Pants, The Invention of the Kaleidoscope, and Animal Eye.  Her work has received 

the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Fellowship, a Village Voice Writers on the Verge Award, 

an NEA Fellowship, two Pushcart Prizes, the University of Georgia Press’ Contemporary 

Poetry Series Award, a Fulbright Fellowship, inclusion in the Best American Poetry series (2102 

and 2013) and various state arts council awards.  Her most recent book of poems, Animal 

Eye, was a finalist for the 2013 Kingsley Tufts Prize, the Balcones Poetry Prize, and was 

the winner of the 2013 UNT Rilke Prize. Her poems and essays have appeared in or are 

forthcoming from The New York Times Magazine, American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, 

Poetry, The New Republic, Virginia Quarterly Review, Tin House, and on National Public Radio 

among many others.

Check this out: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/245908

Michigan in Color: What am I? - The Michigan Daily

heartbreaking and hopeful stories from our University of Michigan students

https://www.michigandaily.com/opinion/michigan-color-what-am-i?page=0%2C1

Michigan in Color: What am I? - The Michigan Daily

Kathy Hiraga of interactive ebook Samurai Bike Messengers

So fun to meet the very cool Kathy Hiraga of interactive ebook startup Samurai Bike Messengers (thanks to an introduction from ubercool tech startup guru Harry Lin) This is what many nerdy techy Asian Pacific American parents and parents of color and parents of strong girls have been waiting for! We're talking strong Asian American/hapa heroine, cool Asian American male character with that great spiky hair, environmental and urban biking superheroes, saving NYC with bikes. Edgy, fun, engaging, not just for kids.

http://pop-post.com/