Mike

by | Jul 14, 2016 | blog

Tonight, TBL EAST, 7:30 p.m., lyric by poets Tim Shaner and Robert Hill Long, narrative from fiction writer Andrew Valentine, and acoustic sets by King Radio and Matt Buetow! (posted from Facebook)READ NOW

On Being Half-Asian in the MS Delta

by | Jul 11, 2016 | blog

I wrote a piece for Scalawag (originally published in Rethink MS) about being mixed-race Asian-American in the Delta.  You can find the piece here. In part, I wrote: “Mississippi was not an ordinary place to be half-Japanese. In the Delta, I was perpetually...