Leighton Suen teaches the Asian American Literature class at FDR High School in Brooklyn, NY. His students have recently completed a project writing poems in English and in another language and recording themselves reading their poems in both languages.

With the permission of his students' parents, and his school, they have been published on the website below.

NYS TESOL is proud to share these NYC schools bilingual students' achievements and help all bilingual and multilingual students and teachers celebrate May as Asian American History Month.

Read Asian American Literature from students