Asian American Poets and Wikipedia
The history of Asian American literature, especially its poets is always a work in progress, but a major milestone was the July/August 2017 issue of Poetry Magazine that gave a spotlight to Asian American poets for the first time since its founding in 1912.?It was updated as recently as 2021. This quarter, I went through the existing Poetry 2017 list to see who also has corresponding entries in Wikipedia at the moment.?
While some may argue against the academic and literary importance of a Wikipedia entry compared to, say, the Encyclopedia Britannica or Urban Dictionary or a note in Kirkus or the New York Times, it is still helpful for many, so I felt it's worth a look. The Wikipedia page on Asian American Writers is getting very out of date, and does not include all of the poets mentioned in the 2017 Poetry roundup. The Academy of American Poets, meanwhile, does have entries on poets we might consider Asian American, but has no tag system with which finding them might be an easier process.
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But back to the list. There are definitely gaps, as you can see, but I think over time many of these can be addressed, even as other entries may be in need of more significant updates, if any of our English Departments or Asian American student groups were interested in a project this year.
- Aria Aber
- Dilruba Ahmed
- Zubair Ahmed
- Ai
- Meena Alexander
- Agha Shahid Ali
- Kazim Ali
- Hala Alyan
- Indran Amirthanayagam
- Cynthia Arrieu-King
- Fatimah Asghar
- Ruth Awad
- Rick Barot
- Arlene Biala
- Quan Barry
- Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
- Tamiko Beyer
- Jaswinder Bolina
- Jenny Boully
- Luis Cabalquinto
- Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello
- Tina Cane
- Nick Carbó
- Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
- Dorothy Chan
- Michelle Chan Brown
- Wo Chan
- Jennifer Chang
- Tina Chang
- Victoria Chang
- Cathy Linh Che
- Chen Chen
- Ching-In Chen
- Ken Chen
- Justin Chin
- Marilyn Chin
- Wendy Chin-Tanner
- Su Cho
- Eric Chock
- Franny Choi
- Teresa Mei Chuc
- Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis
- Brian Komei Dempster
- Tsering Wangmo Dhompa
- Linh Dinh
- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
- Jennifer Kwon Dobbs
- Tishani Doshi
- Carolina Ebeid
- Tarfia Faizullah
- Farnoosh Fathi
- Monica Ferrell
- Megan Fernandes
- Naoko Fujimoto
- Shamala Gallagher
- Eric Gamalinda
- Sarah Gambito
- Eugene Gloria
- Vince Gotera
- Jessica Hagedorn
- Minal Hajratwala
- Sadakichi Hartmann
- Raza Ali Hasan
- Sharon Hashimoto
- Kimiko Hahn
- Jennifer Hasegawa
- Lee Herrick
- Anna Maria Hong
- Cathy Park Hong
- Garrett Hongo
- Tung-Hui Hu
- Luisa A. Igloria
- Lawson Fusao Inada
- Hiromi ItÅ
- Paolo Javier
- Ha Jin
- W. Todd Kaneko
- Summi Kaipa
- Bhanu Kapil
- Vandana Khanna
- BenjamÃn Naka-Hasebe Kingsley
- Maxine Hong Kingston
- Myung Mi Kim
- Suji Kwock Kim
- Juliet Kono
- Amitava Kumar
- David Lau
- Dipika Mukherjee
- Alan Chong Lau
- Ae Hee Lee
- Ed Bok Lee
- Esther Lee
- Karen An-hwei Lee
- Li-Young Lee
- Priscilla Lee
- Sueyeun Juliette Lee
- Joseph O. Legaspi
- Mari L'Esperance
- Genny Lim
- Sandra Lim
- Shirley Geok-Lin Lim
- Tan Lin
- Tao Lin
- Yuxi Lin
- Timothy Liu
- Lo Kwa Mei-En
- Trisha Low
- Pamela Lu
- Gerald Maa
- Amit Majmudar
- Mai Mang
- Randall Mann
- Sally Wen Mao
- Wong May
- Dunya Mikhail
- Janice Mirikitani
- Nadia Misir
- James Masao Mitsui
- Rajiv Mohabir
- Mary Anne Mohanraj
- Mong-Lan
- Faisal Mohyuddin
- David Mura
- Kristin Naca
- Sawako Nakayasu
- Vivek Narayanan
- Aimee Nezhukumatathil
- Rick Noguchi
- Yone Noguchi
- Hoa Nguyen
- Diana Khoi Nguyen
- William Oandasan
- Matthew Olzmann
- Shin Yu Pai
- Hannah Sanghee Park
- Ishle Yi Park
- Oliver de la Paz
- Craig Santos Perez
- Sasenarine Persaud
- Hai-Dang Phan
- Bao Phi
- Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
- Michelle Naka Pierce
- Jon Pineda
- Wang Ping
- A. K. Ramanujan
- Bino A. Realuyo
- Srikanth Reddy
- Paisley Rekdal
- Barbara Jane Reyes
- Atsuro Riley
- Lee Ann Roripaugh
- Patrick Rosal
- Brynn Saito
- Nicky Sa-eun Schildkraut
- Sudeep Sen
- Vijay Seshadri
- Ravi Shankar
- Solmaz Sharif
- Prageeta Sharma
- Brenda Shaughnessy
- Brandon Shimoda
- Sun Yung Shin
- Anis Shivani
- Beau Sia
- Brandon Som
- Cathy Song
- Christopher Spaide
- Brian Kim Stefans
- Adrienne Su
- Arthur Sze
- Eileen R. Tabios
- Jeff Tagami
- Dujie Tahat
- Alex Tarampi
- Bryan Thao Worra
- Jeet Thayil
- Barbara Tran
- Paul Tran
- Truong Tran
- Pimone Triplett
- Amy Uyematsu
- Mai Der Vang
- Pramila Venkateswaran
- Ocean Vuong
- Divya Victor
- Sharon Wang
- Ronaldo V. Wilson
- Jane Wong
- Janet Wong
- Nellie Wong
- David Woo
- Koon Woon
- Khaty Xiong
- Lynn Xu
- Wendy Xu
- Mitsuye Yamada
- Jeffrey Yang
- John Yau
- Emily Jungmin Yoon
- Mia You
- Monica Youn
- C. Dale Young
- Timothy Yu
- Jenny Zhang