Lectures & Discussions
Carlos Bulosan: The Writer Is Also a Citizen
Lectures & Discussions
Carlos Bulosan: The Writer Is Also a Citizen
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Poet, novelist, essayist, fiction writer, and labor organizer Carlos Bulosan (1913-1956) left the Philippines at age 17 to look for work in the United States. What he found was racism, low-paying jobs, and a brilliant and unexpected literary career. In conjunction with the closing of the banner exhibition I Want the Wide American Earth: An Asian Pacific American Story, whose title is taken from one of Bulosan's poems, five Filipino-American writers–including poet Barbara Jane Reyes (Diwata, For the City That Nearly Broke Me) and playwright and novelist Noёl Alumit (Letters to Montgomery Clift)–will read from Bulosan's diverse body of work and from their own in celebration of the centenary of this seminal writer, worker, and citizen.
Also featuring Rachelle Cruz, Giovanni Ortega, and Chris Santiago.
Poet, novelist, essayist, fiction writer, and labor organizer Carlos Bulosan (1913-1956) left the Philippines at age 17 to look for work in the United States. What he found was racism, low-paying jobs, and a brilliant and unexpected literary career. In conjunction with the closing of the banner exhibition I Want the Wide American Earth: An Asian Pacific American Story, whose title is taken from one of Bulosan's poems, five Filipino-American writers–including poet Barbara Jane Reyes (Diwata, For the City That Nearly Broke Me) and playwright and novelist Noёl Alumit (Letters to Montgomery Clift)–will read from Bulosan's diverse body of work and from their own in celebration of the centenary of this seminal writer, worker, and citizen.
Also featuring Rachelle Cruz, Giovanni Ortega, and Chris Santiago.
