Saturday, June 22, 2024 | 3pm to 4:30pm
Museum of Chinese in America
215 Centre Street, Manhattan
In this co-sponsored event, poet and editor Russell C. Leong will read from MothSutra, based upon drawings and poetry about an Asian delivery man who rides a bicycle throughout Manhattan as he “cycles through his life from East to West.” Leong hopes to evoke the inner lives, meditations, hopes and dreams of persons generally invisible to those who order “takeout.” MothSutra was first read at the Bowery Poetry Club, the University of Hong Kong Black Box Theatre, and the City University of New York. He will be introduced on video by the late Chinese American labor historian, Peter Kwong. A bilingual Q&A session will take place afterwards in English and Chinese.
*Artwork donated by the artist will benefit the community organization, Fuzhou America.
Organizer
Museum of Chinese in America
Co-Sponsor
Asian American / Asian Research Institute – CUNY
