FILM: Between the Lines: Asian American Female Poets

This documentary offers rare interviews with over 15 major Asian-Pacific American women poets. Watch the movie and stay afterwards for a discussion.

This documentary offers rare interviews with over 15 major Asian-Pacific American women poets. Organized in interwoven sections such as Immigration, Language, Family, Memory, and Spirituality, it is a sophisticated merging of Asian-American history and identity with the questions of performance, voice, and image.

This engaging documentary serves as poetry reading, virtual anthology, and, perhaps most importantly, moving testimony about gender, ethnicity, aesthetics, and creative choice. The carefully edited interviews and poems read reflect the filmmaker’s desire to show both individual voice and diversity within the Asian-American women’s community.

The film’s runtime is 1 hour. A discussion will take place right afterwards.