Kavad
Kavad is a program comprised of interviews, readings, educational workshops, online archiving and new creative writing by Asian American poets. The principle aim of Kavad is to use stories to involve multiple generations of Asian Americans in proactively archiving and responding to our history as it was and as it is in the making.
In traditional Indian storytelling, a "kavad" is a box with panels that unfold three dimensionally to tell a story. We have chosen the kavad as a metaphor for this program as it evokes the partnership of generations of Asian Americans in the telling of the collective Asian American story.
Nicholas Rosal in 1964
Patrick Rosal and Nicholas Rosal (2006)