Events
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Author Tour Events
Karen Tei Yamashita reading and in conversation about QUESTIONS 27 & 28 at Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
LOCATION: Hoffman Hall, Edison Auditorium - Signing Area 1. “Looking Deeper: The Asian American Experience in Historical Fiction,” featuring Karen Tei Yamashita (Questions 27 & 28) in conversation with Naomi Hirahara, moderated by Christine Bollow. A signing will follow the program, and books will be available for purchase from Pages: A Bookstore. Click here for details.
M Lin reading and in conversation about THE MEMORY MUSEUM with Weike Wang at McNally Jackson (Seaport Location)
Stay tuned for more information. Signed copies of THE MEMORY MUSEUM are available for pre-order from McNally Jackson.
Karen Tei Yamashita (QUESTIONS 27 & 28) delivers the keynote at the Comparative Literature Conference at California State University Long Beach
The conference will be held in the Karl Anatol Center. Copies of Questions 27 & 28 will be available for purchase from the campus bookstore. Click here for details.
Donika Kelly reading from THE NATURAL ORDER OF THINGS with Patricia Smith, Ashley M. Jones, and Aimee Nezhukumatathil at The Poetry Foundation
This event is free and open to the public. Find more information and RSVP here.
Daniel Moysaenko reading and in conversation with Paul Hlava Ceballos about OVERTAKELESSNESS at Open Books: A Poem Emporium
This event is free and open to the public. Click here for more details. Copies of Overtakelessness are available for purchase from Open Books.
M Lin reading and in conversation about THE MEMORY MUSEUM with Shannon Sanders at Politics and Prose (Union Market)
This event is free and open to the public. Copies of THE MEMORY MUSEUM are available for pre-order from Politics & Prose here.
Karen Tei Yamashita reading and in conversation with Alice Yang about QUESTIONS 27 & 28 at Bookshop Santa Cruz
Free and open to the public. This event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. Copies of Questions 27 & 28 will be available for purchase from Bookshop Santa Cruz. Click here to RSVP.
M Lin reading and in conversation about THE MEMORY MUSEUM with 'Pemi Aguda at The Free Library
Tickets for this event are available for purchase for $5. Find more information and register here.
A celebration of Larry Levis’s SWIRL & VORTEX at New York University
LOCATION: Rosenthal Pavilion, NYU Kimmel Center (60 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012). Join Catherine Barnett, Terrance Hayes, Edward Hirsch, John Murillo, Marie Howe, and David St. John for a tribute reading in honor of Larry Levis, celebrating the publication of SWIRL & VORTEX. Free and open to the public / registration is required. Click here to register.
Karen Tei Yamashita reading and in conversation about QUESTIONS 27 & 28 at the Salt Lake Buddhist Temple, presented by the Topaz Museum for the 2026 Topaz Pilgrimage
Presented by the Topaz Museum, the 2026 Topaz Pilgrimage will pay tribute to the 11,212 people of Japanese descent who were incarcerated at the Topaz WWII American concentration camp and give participants the opportunity to explore the legacy of Topaz as well as the Japanese American history in Salt Lake City and Utah. Karen Tei Yamashita will present Questions 27 & 28 at Salt Lake City Buddhist Temple, and copies of the book will be available for purchase from the Topaz Museum. Click here to register for the pilgrimage.
This is why I love poems: they require me to sit still, listen deeply, and imagine putting myself in someone else’s unfamiliar shoes.