In 2010, an Enbridge pipeline spilled one million gallons of tar sands oil into the Kalamazoo River, a tributary of Lake Michigan. Dane County wants Enbridge to carry extra insurance in case of a similar disaster with the pipeline here; Enbridge has taken to the courts to remove this requirement. For the first segment of […]
The Controversy Over “Miss Saigon”
The management of Overture Center for the Arts has managed to upstage their run of Miss Saigon even before a note’s been sung. In response to objections over problematic narratives in Miss Saigon, the story of a romance between a young Vietnamese woman and an American G.I. during the Vietnam War, the Overture Center partnered […]
Performing History: Documenting & Enacting Asian American Midwest...
Timothy Yu Rebecca Kinney Victor Jew Asian American HistoryAsia and the U.S. Midwest are separated by the world’s largest ocean and at least half a continent. Small wonder then, that Asian Americans account for a smaller proportion of the total population in the Midwest than they do in other, more accessible, regions. Relatively fewer in […]
Poet Timothy Yu
Today’s guest is Professor Timothy Yu to talk about Asian American writers, the controversy over Calvin Trillin’s Chinese food poem in the New Yorker, and his new book of poetry, 100 Chinese Silences. Timothy Yu is of English and Asian American studies, as well as the director of the Asian American Studies Program at UW-Madison. His […]
100 Chinese Silences – A Book of Poetry by Timothy Yu
Host Jonathan Zarov interviews Timothy Yu who has recently published his first book of poems, 100 Chinese Silences. Yu wll be reading from this work of poems this Thursday, Feb 11, 2016 at 7 pm, Room 205, Pyle Center, 702 Langdon Street, UW-Madison Campus Quoting writer John Yau on Timothy Yu’s recently published, first book […]
