Blog / Heart
“...the fragments are then so many stones on the perimeter of a circle: I spread myself around: my whole little universe in crumbs; at the center, what?”
“Bewilderment as a poetics and an ethics”
— Fanny Howe
“A language is a grand collaboration, a collective art form”
— Marilynne Robinson
“Language is a skin; I rub my language against the other”
— Roland Barthes
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Support Asian American Literature
As we enter Asian and Pacific American Heritage Month, I am volunteering to raise funds for an organization that has been pivotal to my work and identity as an AAPI writer and artist. Kundiman was started in 2004
What are the small, enduring things?
Since my last blog post, I have: given birth to a child; fallen behind; confronted what was deeply hidden; surrendered to something unfathomable; shut myself into the home;
2019 NEA Fellow & Other Updates
The last year and a half has submerged me in personal matters, so here are a few long overdue updates: I won an NEA fellowship! It was my first time applying; I am learning to ask for things.