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Diasporic Peoples Writing Collective (DPWC) is a registered student organization at San Jose State University. DPWC was founded by Creative Writing MFAs who through their shared student experience developed community. Now, DPWC is students, alums, academics, and allies on a project to build platform for BIPOC + underrepresented literary artists and creatives. Visit and follow DPWC2020.com and @DPWC2020
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DPWC Allies with Fellow SJSU Student Orgs

DPWC allies with its fellow San Jose State University (SJSU) student organizations. The Poets and Writers Coalition (PWC) The Black Student Union (BSU) The Native American Student Org (NASO) naso.sjsu.ca@dpwc2020 El Espartano Noticias, a Spanish journalism organization at SJSU that focuses on local issues and stories that affect the Latinx community. They are a news organization and a support group for students interested in writing and … Continue reading DPWC Allies with Fellow SJSU Student Orgs

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Events

Performance and Video Production feat. in a Joint

The Diasporic Peoples Writing Collective (DPWC) premiered a film for San Jose State University’s virtual “Legacy of Poetry” festival on April 17, 2021. The festival was themed Closing the Distance: Sheltering in Technolog(ies), and in it were some of our very own DPWC member-poets featured beside veterans like Daniel B. Summerhill, Tureeda Mikell, Vernon Keeve III, MK Chavez, and Keenan Norris. It was a joint … Continue reading Performance and Video Production feat. in a Joint

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DPWC Allies with the Center for Literary Arts (CLA) on Book Club and Author Events

DPWC allies with the Center for Literary Arts (CLA) on its Book Club and Author Events. Please visit the CLA Book Club page on Goodreads. Click the “join” button on their page, read along, keep an eye on their schedule and participate in their virtual discussions. View their videos and invite friends to do the same. Follow CLA’s Instagram, Facebook, and/or Twitter for updates. CLA Book … Continue reading DPWC Allies with the Center for Literary Arts (CLA) on Book Club and Author Events

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Interviews

Interview With Author, Persis Karim

Writing and the Importance of Community Living to Make Every Day Count This May, I interviewed Persis Karim, Ph.D., over Zoom. While our conversation meandered through coffee and the struggles of living through COVID-19, somehow, we came back to her life as a poet and author. Karim is a professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at San Francisco State University (SFSU). She is also … Continue reading Interview With Author, Persis Karim

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Interview With Author, Faith Adiele

Artists as First Responders It’s 2020, a year I thought might bring clarity.April showers pour from clouds cast by COVID-19. It is wet outside but we’re inside per a warning from state officials to shelter-in-place. This unsettling phrase tries to side-step the word, home, just as there is nothing to curb the virus’ spread; no language to address people for whom there is no home; … Continue reading Interview With Author, Faith Adiele

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About the DPWC

The Diasporic Peoples Writing Collective (DPWC) is a San Jose State University (SJSU) student organization. We started as a handful of Creative Writing MFAs developing community through our shared interest in literary art. Today we’re a much larger project, powered by student, alumni, academic, and ally activists helping us build-out a platform to foster equity for literary artists. We maintain work synergy by meeting monthly … Continue reading About the DPWC

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Book Club

Join us for a read via Bookclubs. Bookclubs is a platform for hosting book club events and discussions. It’s easy to join! Create a profile and become a Diasporic Peoples Writing Collective (DPWC) book club member via this link: https://bookclubz.com/clubs/24994/join/dddd92/ We’re reading the following book/s now, so pace yourself and meet us on Zoom for the discussion/s. August 6, 2022 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM … Continue reading Book Club

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Blog

Check out DPWC’s guest authors, Margalynne Armstrong, Lyzette Wanzer, Jewelle Gomez, and Judy Juanita, feat. at a SJSU hybrid event where they’ll discuss their anthology, “Trauma, Tresses, & Truth.” Check out DPWC’s roster of roundtable guests for the 2021-22 school year: Tureeda Mikell, Daniel B. Summerhill, Vernon Keeve III, Blackbook and its founding team, MK Chavez, and Keenan Norris. Legacy of Poetry, 2021, was themed, … Continue reading Blog

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Authors

Our collective is home to some talented creative writers who are published and are on the reading circuit. We are also home to editors, educators, archivists, and folks who are either in or adjacent to the literary industry. “A Love Letter is a profound and gorgeously rendered tribute to a person, to a place, and to life itself. I really enjoyed the vivid characters and the … Continue reading Authors

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