Get Hooked on ALL HEATHENS by Marianne Chan
Channel: San Francisco Public Library
Date: 2022-08-30

All Heathens is a declaration of ownership - of bodies, of histories, of time. Revisiting Magellan's voyage around the world, these poems explore the speaker's Filipino American identity by grappling with her relationship to her family and notions of diaspora, circumnavigation, and discovery. 

Find a copy of All Heathens at the San Francisco Public Library (https://sfpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S93C4769664) or buy a copy from your favorite local bookstore: https://bookshop.org/books/all-heathens/9781946448521

Marianne Chan grew up in Stuttgart, Germany, and Lansing, Michigan. Her poems have appeared in West Branch, The Journal, Poetry Northwest, Denver Quarterly, Indiana Review, Carve Magazine, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She serves as poetry editor at Split Lip Magazine.

We are proud to announce that the 6th Filipino American International Book Festival will be taking place on October 15-16, 2022 at the San Francisco Public Library. Come celebrate our Filipino/a/x authors! 
Visit https://filbookfestival.org/ for more information.

Presented by PAWA (Philippine American Writers and Artists) in partnership with the San Francisco Public Library, this year’s theme is Hiraya/Emergence: Writing towards the Future. Hiraya is a Tagalog word for imagination, for dreaming, the emergence of the flower and the fruit. What does Hiraya mean to you?