&Now 2019 Conference

Asian American poets Diana Khoi Nguyen and Jane Wong seek to engage interweaving points of convergences: of language and food as a means of communication to the dead, of languages (Vietnamese and Chinese, respectively) that refuse translation, and of the brackish water that is Asian American identity. At times, these points blur into each other, are at odds with each other, as well as sustain and bolster each other. Each poet, in conversation with the other, will perform their work through hybrid and interdisciplinary acts, utilizing a mixture of video, audio, text, and food as a means to prepare altars focused on communication, healing, and radical generosity.