Writing into Silence | Hasib Hourani + Cathy Linh Che
Slow Currents at the 2024 Asian American Literature Festival
Writing into Silence | Hasib Hourani + Cathy Linh Che
“rock flight is relentlessly potent,” writes Korean American poet Don Mee Choi about Hasib Hourani’s debut book, a personal and historical narrative of Palestine’s occupation. At once claustrophobic and unsettlingly exposed, this book-length poem seeks new forms of language to articulate this ongoing horror and the ongoing resistance.
Hasib speaks with writer and artist Cathy Linh Che about writing into the wound, explorations with form, and the state of literature in Australia and the US.
Available to view from 14 September.
The Asian American Literature Festival Collective
The Asian American Literature Festival Collective is a cooperative devoted to stewarding the futures of Asian American literature as art form and social ecosystem. Organizing partners within the collective include the Asian American Literary Archive, Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Bamboo Ridge, The Georgia Review, Kaya Press, Kearny Street Workshop, KidLit with Sarah Park Dahlen, Reorienting Reads, and Slow Currents.