Afro-Asian Poetic Pantry Workshop at MoCADA on Governors Island
On September 30, an Afro-Asian Poetic Index workshop took place at the MoCADA Abolition House on Governors.
The workshop was led by School of Media Studies and Creative Writing graduate students Dennica Pearl Worrell, Kate McDonough, and Johann Yamin, research assistants to Assistant Professor Margaret Rhee. They performed poetry and music at the event alongside activist and poet Rohan Zhou-Lee and ran a writing workshop.
These forums celebrated the powerful fusion of poetry, art, food, and unity between Black and Asian communities. The Afro-Asian Poetic Index is a public resource that includes over 60 initial entries of links, websites, and biographies gathering artists, activists, scholars, books, collections, and movements recognizing Afro-Asia as an artistic, social, and political act of resistance.
