Welcome back to THROUGHLINES, Kaya Press’s newsletter that bridges the gap between contemporary Asian Pacific literature and Asian American Studies. In our fourth issue, Floyd Cheung shares his syllabus on Asian American literature. Our running inventory grows with its fourth installment, highlighting recent publications by API diasporic authors. Cynthia Zhang also offers insights on how […]
With our diverse array of titles – across poetry, fiction, non-fiction, literary recovery, film, and performance – there’s a Kaya book for courses across disciplines. To help bring our titles to your classroom, we’ve created a dedicated page for our teaching guides and other resources. Scroll down to learn more about how you can fit […]
Congrats to Truong Tran, author of the poetry collection book of the other: short in comparison, for winning the Firecracker Award in Poetry from the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses. book of the other continues to receive warm acclaim, spotlighted by publications like the Poetry Foundation and described by author Douglas Kearney as a “witness of whiteness […]
An Excerpt from our Teaching Guide for book of the other Theme: Institutional Racism Truong Tran explores the effects of institutional racism as a professor of Creative Writing in higher education, along with documenting the hierarchies implicit in the position of an “adjunct” faculty member. As the son of Vietnamese refugees, Tran has a unique take […]
Book of the Other In November of 2021, we released book of the other: small in comparison by Truong Tran—a provocative collection of poems, essays, and antipoems that resists the luxury of metaphor to write about Tran’s experience of being shut out, shut down and othered as a queer, working-class teacher, immigrant and refugee. book of the other is […]
Hello from Kaya Press! Happiest Lunar New Year and Year of the Tiger! We are writing to let you know about Kaya’s relaunch of Throughlines, originally conceived of as a newsletter about educational resources and content related to Kaya titles and Asian diasporic literature more broadly. Throughlines emerged from our desire to connect the Asian Pacific American […]
