.Albert Abonado loves it when poems lead him to unexpected places. He loves poems that are both expansive and personal, and he wants that sensibility present in his writing. #FilipinoHeritageMonth INT'L. EXAMINER 🐉 buff.ly/3YhyXV7

Happy #BookBDay, Albert Abonado!🥭 FIELD GUIDE FOR ACCIDENTS, his collection that wrestles with questions of family, mortality, cultural history & identity from the Filipinx-American experience, “open[s] us up to feast and wonder.”—兔兒神 buff.ly/4hhWwVi

What advice and direction would Albert Abonado give young Asian Americans who wish to pursue a path in poetry? INT'L. EXAMINER 🐉 asks him what he identifies as the most significant steps in his career. buff.ly/3YhyXV7

Check out three new poetry collections—Albert Abonado’s Field Guide for Accidents (Beacon Press), Jennifer Chang’s An Authentic Life (Copper Canyon Press), and A. B. Spellman’s Between the Night and Its Music (weslpress)—in our latest #PageOne! at.pw.org/PageOne2025x1

So lovely to be included here!

Come through, Brooklyn! Albert Abonado will be at Books Are Magic to talk about his National Poetry Series-winning collection, FIELD GUIDE FOR ACCIDENTS, with Jason Koo this Friday, 11/8. Get your 🎟️ now! ➡️ buff.ly/4fcFg2w

#ClipOfTheDay: In this Books Are Magic event, Albert Abonado reads from his second poetry collection, Field Guide for Accidents (Beacon Press), and discusses Asian American families and the model minority myth in a conversation with Jason Koo. at.pw.org/Abonado

Aww, yeah! Did you peep Albert Abonado’s FIELD GUIDE FOR ACCIDENTS at the top of Literary Hub’s roundup of poetry books to read this month? 🤩 buff.ly/40tCaT5

Our selected #PageOne memoirs boast distinctive first lines, including @_patriciacoral_’s Women Surrounded by Water (Mad Creek Books), which opens on a suspenseful note, and André Aciman’s Roman Year (Farrar,Straus&Giroux), which begins with a dramatic line of dialogue. at.pw.org/PageOne2025x1

Poem of the Week: From the Trees Full of Birdsong Comes Unripe Fruit by Albert Abonado ✨ justbuffalo.org/albert-abonado… Poem of the Week is curated by RD Pohl

i love this prose poem by Albert Abonado. the turns! that ending! Gogol!

just learned of Michael's passing, and no words are coming to me except his— I do not want to belabor invisibility, but if it isn’t there in the spaces among the people as a spiritual thread then I do not want to be there either. —Michael Burkard, from "The Summer After Last"

The Asian Writer Our 2025 literary competition judges, Albert Abonado and Soma Mei Sheng Frazier, are looking for Subnivean Awards entries now... subnivean.org

When Josh Allen won MVP he gave a shoutout to ‘Slick Rick’ in the mailroom. I wanted to know more about him. I think this might be the most wholesome thing you’ll see today 🥹 #BillsMafia 7 News WKBW

Reminding everyone that I’m also open to new adult submissions now! While Sheldon Fogelman Agency specializes in children’s books, I am very open to new adult and authors who write across all ages.

In Albert Abonado’s JAW, “America pulls a splinter out of a child’s hand, a man hides beneath a body to avoid Japanese soldiers, and God eats spam, white rice, and a fried egg.” Read poetry from SundressPublications this #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth: sundress-publications.square.site/product/jaw-by…

“I treat Tuesday nights like free voice training, and Boy, do I practice– every week a new song, every month a new pitch…” Read “Reflection” by Toni Garcia-Butler in beestung! #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth beestungmag.com/issue22/reflec…

Be sure to bookmark our #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth reading list for year-round reads from Alice James Books, Nightboat Books, Haymarket Books, Tupelo Press, Inlandia Institute, Akashic Books, Red Hen Press, Unsolicited Press, and more indie publishers: clmp.org/news/a-reading…