Happy APIA Heritage Month! Here is our first of the month news update:
May Community Calendar is Now Live
We’ve updated our community calendar page for May. As always, we’d love to have your input in making our event coverage more accurate and thorough: leave a comment to suggest any additions and/or corrections.
APIA History Month on the LR Blog
During May, we’ll be running two blog series to celebrate National APIA Heritage Month. The first, “Poetry in History,” will appear each Friday in lieu of our regular Editors’ Picks / Weekly Prompt posts, and will feature poems written during and/or about a particular period in Asian American History and an accompanying (linked) prompt. Our “Process Portraits” series will begin during the second week of May, and will spotlight the work being done – and the history being made right now – by six young contemporary Asian American poets. Finally, we’ll also be running interviews, book reviews, and occasional editorial posts during May that have to do with questions of historicity and historical engagement in Asian American poetry.
Issue 1 Submissions Period Closed
Thank you so much to those of you who submitted work during our very first reading period! The Editors are currently making final decisions about what will go into the magazine, and if you haven’t heard back from us already, you should within the next few weeks. If all goes as planned, Issue 1 will launch in early June. Look out for an announcement about the exact launch date later this month.
Thanks once again for all of your continued support in reading and helping to promote the content we put on the LR Blog. We could not run this gig without you!
Sincerely,
Iris & Mia
LR Editorial Staff.