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DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, March 3\, 2022 | 4:00PM - 5:00PM | Online | Video Re
 cording\n\nAs beautiful and varied as an archipelago\, barangay:an offshor
 e poem (Wolsak & Wynn\, 2021) is an elegant new collection of poetry from 
 Adrian De Leon that gathers in and arranges difficult pieces of a scattere
 d history. Adrian De Leon\, Assistant Professor of American Studies and Et
 hnicity will enter in conversation with Craig Santos Perez\, Associate Pro
 fessor of English and Chair of the Hawaiian\, Asian\, and Pacific Islander
  Board in the Office of General Education at the University of Hawai'i\, M
 ānoa.\n\nWhile mourning the loss of his grandmother who "lived\, loved an
 d grieved in three languages\," De Leon skips his barangay\, which is both
  a boat and an administrative unit in the Philippine government\, over the
  history of both his family and a nation. In these poems De Leon considers
  the deadly impact of colonialism\, the far-reaching effects of the diaspo
 ra from the Philippines and the personal loss of his ability to speak Ilok
 ano\, his grandmother's native tongue. These are spare\, haunting poems\, 
 which wash over the reader like the waves of the ocean the barangays navig
 ated long ago and then pull the reader into their current like the rivers 
 De Leon left behind. \n\n\nAdrian De Leon is a historian\, poet\, antholog
 ist\, and multimedia educator at the University of Southern California\, w
 here he is an Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity. At US
 C\, he serves on the steering committee of the Center for Transpacific Stu
 dies\, and holds affiliations with the East Asian Studies Center and the E
 quity Research Institute. He is the author of two poetry collections\, inc
 luding most recently\, barangay: an offshore poem (Buckrider Books\, 2021)
 \, which was named one of 2021’s best Canadian poetry collections by the
  Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. With Emmy Award-winning documentary fi
 lmmaker Dolly Li\, he is the co-host and co-writer of the PBS miniseries\,
  A People’s History of Asian America. His first academic book\, An Irred
 ucible Kinship: Native Transits from Philippine Bundok to American Diaspor
 a\, is under contract with the University of North Carolina Press. \n\n\nC
 raig Santos Perez is a native Chamoru (Chamorro) from the Pacific Island o
 f Guåhan (Guam). He is a poet\, scholar\, editor\, publisher\, essayist\,
  critic\, book reviewer\, artist\, environmentalist\, and political activi
 st. Perez is a Professor in the Department of English at the University of
  Hawai‘i at Mānoa. He is the author of two spoken word poetry albums an
 d five books of poetry\, including most recently\, Habitat Threshold (2020
 ). He has received the Pen Center USA/Poetry Society of America Literary P
 rize (2011)\, the American Book Award (2015)\, the Lannan Foundation Liter
 ary Fellowship (2016)\, the Hawai’i Literary Arts Council Award for an E
 stablished Artist (2017)\, and a gold medal Nautilus Book Award (2021). He
  has also been a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (2010) and 
 the Kingsley Tufts Award for Poetry (2019)\, and he was long listed for a 
 PEN America Literary Award (2021). His scholarly monograph\, Navigating CH
 amoru Poetry: Indigeneity\, Aesthetics\, Decolonization\, was published in
  2022 by the University of Arizona Press. \n\nThis event is organized and 
 sponsored by the USC East Asian Studies Center\, USC Center for Transpacif
 ic Studies and the Creativity\, Theory\, Politics Research Cluster (Depart
 ment of American Studies and Ethnicity)
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SUMMARY:barangay: an offshore poem - Adrian De Leon in conversation with Cr
 aig Santos Perez
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