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“The indignity of being Asian in this country has been underreported,” the poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong writes in ... I believe that did galvanize the South Asian community and the ...

Here is a sample of the questions Cathy Park Hong has been asked in the past ... Once, when she was giving a talk in South Korea, a college student came up to the mic during the Q&A.

Cathy Park Hong: Right now ... as they were in the 1980s, too. South Asians were considered part of the "model minority," and then after 9/11, Asians who were visibly Muslim or South Asians ...

Cathy Park Hong is the author of "Translating Mo'um," for which she won a Van Lier Fellowship and a Pushcart Prize. Her poetry has appeared in the Columbia Journal, Field, McSweeny's and Mudfish.

Ballad in A by Cathy Park Hong A Kansan plays cards, calls marshal a crawdad, that barb lands that rascal a slap; that Kansas jackass scats, camps back at caballada ranch. Hangs kack, ax ...

An opera singer, once in tiger's masque, keens which echoes deep in the well of his welder's mask. A young boy dreams of mums. Oct 7, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Cathy Park Hong ...