Appearances and events

Upcoming events

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Past events

Becoming Better Ancestors: Addressing Archival Silences in the Present

2 April 2026 12:30 PM-2:00 PM
Association for Asian American Studies 2026
Hilton Hawaiian Village Waikiki Beach
Honolulu, HI

Rewiring Archives: Asian American Literature in the Age of Platforms

2 April 2026 9:40 AM-11:10 AM
Association for Asian American Studies 2026
Hilton Hawaiian Village Waikiki Beach
Honolulu, HI

A Lifetime to Write: Fifty Years of the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers

6 March 2026 12:10 PM-1:25 PM
AWP 2026
Baltimore Convention Center
Baltimore, MD

Building a Queer and Trans Asian Pacific American Living Archive

19 April 2025 1:00 PM-2:30 PM (ET)
Association for Asian American Studies 2025
The Westin Boston Seaport District
Boston, MA

The Future of Asian American Community Archives, Part II with Yanyi, Eric Hung, Julia Huynh, Sue Kim, and Marjorie Justine Antonio

18 April 2025 8:15 AM-9:30 AM (ET)
2025 Annual Conference
Association for Asian American Studies
Boston, MA

The Future of Asian American Community Archives, Part I with Christine Ong on the Basement Project, Laura Chen-Schultz on NYU A/P/A Institute, Andra Palchick on Fortune, and Danielle Davis on the Tidewater Trio Project (moderator)

2 April 2025 1:00 PM-2:00 PM
CAFe Speaker Series
University of Maryland Center for Archival Futures
Online

Asian American Literature Festival: Reorienting Reads Reading with Ally Ang, Sahi Velasco, Yanyi, Persimmon Tobing, Pauline Park, Wo Chan, Fatimah Asghar

18 September 2024 5:00 PM
Hybrid, Common Area Maintenance and Asian American Writers' Workshop
Seattle, WA and New York, NY

50 Years of Asian American Literary History at the University of Washington Press with Willyce Kim, Ching-In Chen, Shawn Wong, and Eunsong Kim

26 April 2024 7:00 PM
Seattle Public Library - Central Library
Seattle, WA

Roundtable: Asian American Studies Then and Now: By Us, For Us

26 April 2024 2:30 PM
Association of Asian American Studies Conference 2024
Seattle, WA

Literaoke at AAAS presented by The Asian American Literary Review, Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN), Kaya Press, Kundiman, and Reorienting Reads

25 April 2024 7:30 PM
Common Area Maintenance (CAM)
Seattle, WA

NMU Visiting Writers Series: Yanyi

13 April 2023 5:00 PM
Northern Michigan University
Marquette, MI, USA

Foglifter Queer Home CookOUT Tour w/ Cam Awkward-Rich, Britt Billmeyer-Finn, Miah Jeffra, Baruch Porras-Hernandez, Jordy Rosenberg, and Zoe Tuck

8 August 2021 10:00 AM
Many Graces Farm and Floral Design
Hadley, MA, USA

Starting a Paid Newsletter for Creative Writers (Seminar)

30 May 2021 11:00 AM
Zoom
USA

Starting a Paid Newsletter for Writers of Color (Seminar)

23 May 2021 11:00 AM
Zoom
USA

Starting a Paid Newsletter for Queer and Trans Writers (Seminar)

16 May 2021 11:00 AM
Zoom
USA

The Pandemic Tarot Card: A Collective Tarot-Making Workshop (Seminar)

12 May 2021 4:00 PM
UCI Humanities Center
Irvine, CA, USA

Poets in the Round: Yanyi, Shira Erlichman, and Asiya Wadud

22 April 2021 3:30 PM
Cambridge Library
Cambridge, MA, USA

Writers At Newark Reading Series

13 April 2021 2:30 PM
Rutgers University - Newark
Newark, NJ, USA

(Workshop) Sick at Heart: Writing the Love We Inherit

12 February 2021 1:00 PM
UCI Center for Medical Humanities
Irvine, CA, USA

Substack On! - Panel: Advice for the Lonely w/ Default Friend and Kirstie Taylor

8 January 2021 1:30 PM
Substack
San Francisco, CA, USA

47th Annual Poetry Project New Year's Day Marathon

31 December 2020 8:00 PM
The Poetry Project
New York, NY, USA

already felt Chapbook Launch/Holigay Party

18 December 2020 5:00 PM
already felt
New York, NY, USA

Millay Colony Holiday Cocktail Fundraiser

10 December 2020 3:30 PM
Millay Colony
Austerlitz, NY, USA

Segue Reading Series with Richard Loranger

21 November 2020 2:00 PM
Artists Space
Brooklyn, NY, USA

There Is Still Singing in the Afterlife Launch for JinJin Xu, with Anne Carson/Robert Currie and Aria Aber

20 November 2020 4:00 PM
Radix Media
Brooklyn, NY, USA

Writing Through Chaos & Reimagining Your Creativity w/ poet & editor Yanyi

17 November 2020 11:00 AM
London Writers' Salon
London, UK

Yanyi & Juliana Spahr

29 October 2020 5:00 PM
The Poetry Project
New York, NY, USA

Radio Session (Things I've Loved)

22 July 2020 12:00 PM
Montez Press Radio
New York, NY, USA

Poetry & Science: Naturalists and Nature Poets with Rick Cech & Yanyi

25 June 2020 5:00 PM
Poets House (Online)
New York, NY, USA

Queering the Hyphen: An LGBTQ+ Asian American Reading

29 May 2020 5:00 PM
Books Are Magic (Online)
Brooklyn, NY, USA

Poetry in Protest: A Solidarity Reading

27 May 2020 5:00 PM
Asian American Writers Workshop (Online)
New York, NY, USA

The Library After Hours: #LoveReading

14 February 2020 7:00 PM
New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
New York, NY, USA

Miami Book Fair w/ Emily Skaja and Sally Wen Mao

24 November 2019 12:30 PM
Miami Dade College
Miami, FL, USA

Center for Book Arts Broadside Reading Series w/ Gina Apostol

21 November 2019 3:30 PM
Center for Book Arts
New York, NY, USA

Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association: 117th Annual Conference

14-17 November 2019
Wyndham San Diego Bayside
San Diego, CA, USA

Yale Series of Younger Poets Centenary Celebration

11 October 2019
Yale University
New Haven, CT, USA