other ways of seeing: the poetics and politics of refraction For three months, I am excited to be writing for Jacket2 on “Other Ways of Seeing: The Poetics and Politics of Refraction.” I wanted to write this series as a way to deepen my exploration of certain works of art that have come to preoccupy me, […]
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from the voice of the lady in the moon (black warrior review) One of my most favorite journals to read Black Warrior Review invited me to write a craft essay (which ended up being a lyric essay) for my poems “From the Voice of the Lady in the Moon.” The poems are in their latest […]
my first book! Happy, over the moon, and grateful: Claudia Rankine (!!!) selected my manuscript, HOUSE A, as winner of the Omnidawn 1st/2nd Poetry Book Prize! The book will be released in November 2016. Read some of the poems online at Web Conjunctions, DIAGRAM, and Tarpaulin Sky.
dear blank space + how to build an american home Happy New Year! I spent mine in bed with a terrible flu, so my start to 2016 was: foggy, bleary. But I am proud of this piece “Dear Blank Space: A Literacy Narrative,” which closed out the year in Entropy magazine (and was included on LitHub […]
pushcart prize nominations I’m really happy that “Velella” in The Volta and “Octopus Teeth” in The Normal School were both nominated for a Pushcart Prize! I love both these journals, and I am extremely grateful to the editors for their support. It is nice to have moments of affirmation once in a while :}
names for homesickness; etc. Missing this home very much at the moment. Trying to find the technical vocabulary for the geographical region and vegetation, all I can distill from the surrounding context is: subtropical broad-leafed forests, low-lying woodlands, shrublands, grasslands. My gathering tendencies… { laurels, beeches, & oaks, magnolias & witch-hazels, ericales (it has a […]
the poetics of translation [I Am a Deaf Artist Redefining “Sound”]: “And the second thing I think about is ghost. Because I can’t see sound – it’s not there.” “As a society, the majority of people hear. And I mirror them. I have to follow what they’re doing. It was not like society gave me […]
poor claudia + tarpaulin sky + the normal school I’ve been reading their series on poetics since it began, so I’m very happy to have a little lyric essay, “A Poetics of Iteration,” at Poor Claudia. Also my manuscript, House A, was a finalist for the Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize, and although they won’t be publishing […]
twenty-six years
http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/1816344/hong-kongs-candlelight-vigil-mark-tiananmen-crackdown-gets http://multimedia.scmp.com/tiananmen/ [Twenty-three] [Twenty-two]
hikikomori: salt constellations It was enriching to work with the AGNI editors, especially Jennifer Alise Drew, who sharpened the essay’s experience, examining my sentences with me even more closely. I’m a slow writer (I feel like a snail or jellyfish), and I began writing this essay in the middle of tumultuous years. Publishing it was unexpectedly […]