language

The author of What Can I Tell You?: Selected Poems explores the poetic potential of vernacular language.

 “Let your sense of language dawn of its own accord.” —Will Alexander, author of Divine Blue Light: For John Coltrane

“I was surprised by my own tendency to write longer and longer lines and to frequently slip into prose poems.” —Nina Mingya Powles, author of Magnolia 木蘭

“How do you navigate a life in opposition to and in spite of systemic racism, with poetry?” —Angel Dominguez, author of Desgraciado

“I only write about the things that haunt me in some way.” —Katie Kitamura, author of Intimacies

This week’s installment of Ten Questions features Mariana Oliver and Julia Sanches, the author and the translator of Migratory Birds.

“There were so many revelations I could only have reached through the process of putting memories on paper.” —Elizabeth Miki Brina, author of Speak, Okinawa

The author of When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities embraces and develops a queer Asian American poetics.