Day Eight is pleased to present nationally-renowned AAPI poet Regie Cabico at American University, Tuesday, April 7, for a Poetry Reading and Conversation on Craft with Dr. Anita Mannur in concert with the American University Department of Literature and the Department of Asia Pacific and Diaspora Studies. Attendees are encouraged to bring a poem to share with the author, and the author will select work shared for publication in the Mid-Atlantic Review.
Regie Cabico is a Filipino American poet and spoken word artist and national literary leader. He is an editor of the Mid-Atlantic Review. His book, A Rabbit in Search of a Rolex, was published by Day Eight in 2023. Regie Cabico won top prizes in the three National Poetry Slams and his poetry appears in more than 30 anthologies, including, Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Café, Spoken Word Revolution and Slam. He is recipient of Fellowship support from the DC Arts Commission and the New York Foundation for the Arts and currently serves as executive director of the New York city based literary non-profit, Gathering of the Tribes. At this event, Regie Cabico will be in conversation with Dr. Anita Mannur.
Anita Mannur is Director of the Asia, Pacific and Diaspora Studies and Professor of Critical Race, Gender, and Culture Studies at American University. Her research areas are Asian American literature, food studies, transnational South Asia, fashion studies and race and gender studies. She is the author of the monographs, Culinary Fictions: Food in South Asian Diasporic Culture (Temple University Press, 2010) and Intimate Eating: Racialized Spaces and Radical Futures (Duke University Press 2022). She has co-edited several collections including Theorizing Diaspora (2005), Eating Asian America (2010) and Eating More Asian America (2025). Her work appears in journals including American Quarterly, Cultural Studies, MELUS, Journal of Intercultural Studies, the Journal of Asian American Studies, Gastronomica, and Amerasia Journal. She is the former editor-in-chief of the Journal of Asian American Studies and is President Elect of the Association for Asian American Studies.
This event is made possible by support from the DC Mayors Office of Community Affairs, and is presented in parallel to events serving the African-American and Jewish literary communities. A culminating event, including all three communities, is scheduled for Sunday, April 19, 2026.