What if we don’t have to be the stories, or the storytellers?

— Echo Quan

love bends / the mover: The Roy Miki Issue celebrates the work and legacy of Roy Miki. The texts and artworks in this issue come together within and across many of Miki’s varied communities: artistic, activist, academic, and Asian Canadian among all of these, considering subjects like asiancy, archives, and, crucially, Miki’s imperative to action. Among all the principles in his astonishingly varied praxis, many contributors take up pedagogy and its broader relational epistemologies in continuing to learn from and with Roy Miki.

Featuring reflections on Miki’s friendship, teachings, and influence by Michael Barnholden, Larissa Lai, Nicole Markotić, and Fred Wah; a textual and visual response to Miki’s poem “Flow Nation” by Cindy Mochizuki; new artwork by Sena Cleave; biotextual writing and art by Tiziana La Melia and Echo Quan; reflections through poetry across archives by Carolyn Nakagawa and Yoriko Gillard; and new writing by Gloriah Amondi, Ranbir K Banwait, Wayde Compton, Khashayar “Kess” Mohammadi, Daphne Marlatt, Carolyn Nakagawa, Vivek Sharma, Yilin Wang, Rita Wong, and shō yamagushiku.

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