Sunday, October 29, 2017

Fay Chiang, A Poet Who Fought Racism And Championed Asian-American Culture, Has Died At 65

Chiang was an educator, an activist, and a poet. "Chiang’s poetry — sometimes serene, sometimes angry and sometimes written in all lowercase letters — reflected her anxieties as a first-generation Chinese-American, her desire to etch Asian culture into American society, her involvement with organizations in Chinatown and on the Lower East Side, and her multiple reckonings with breast cancer over nearly a quarter-century."



Article source here:Arts Journal

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