MIT a cappella group Syncopasian performed the poem “Things We Carry On The Sea” by Wang Ping and invited Asian members of the MIT community to help celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander heritage.
11.04.21 | Alex Sievers
I’ll address this right now: ‘The Black Parade’ ain’t here. There’s just no need for it to be. We all know that album, we all know My Chemical Romance, we’re all familiar with those songs. It’s a given! To the point that allowing ‘The Black Parade’ a spot here – as much as I love it and MCR – would yank the limelight away from other stellar releases from this year. So with that little formality out the way, let’s jump into our time machines and shoot back 15 years for 15 great albums that helped to truly define ’06.
Jeff Amos, PhD candidate at UT, introduced Wilkinson and shared his own thoughts about her work.
âIn reading any story, essay or novel by Crystal Wilkinson, you re struck suddenly by how close your reading is to the narratorâs telling, and what I mean by that is that the communities and the people she writes about are so nuanced and full that you feel less as though you re sitting down with the book and more like you re in a living room listing to the gossip,â Amos said.
Wilkinson read four poems from her new book, âPerfect Black,â a collection of poems that will be coming out in August. Like much of her work, the poems were inspired by Wilkinsonâs grandparents.