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Homeward Bound - Poet Jennifer Huang's Debut Poetry Collection Is a Pilgrimage to the Self

Where do you return to when no place feels like home? This is one of many questions posed by poet Jennifer Huang in their newest collection, Return Flight, a book that travels oceans, generations and hand-me-down family legends as it journeys toward an answer. Born in Maryland, Huang spent . ....

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Verve {in} Verse: torrin a. greathouse « Kenyon Review Blog


The
Kenyon Review in which I converse with poets about their work and interests both on and off the page. Today’s poet is torrin a. greathouse, author of the debut collection
Wound from the Mouth of a Wound (Milkweed Editions, 2020), the winner of the Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry selected by Aimee Nezhukumatathil. They have received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Effing Foundation, Zoeglossia, and the University of Arizona Poetry Center. They are the author of two chapbooks,
Therǝ is a Case That I Ɐm (Damaged Goods, 2017) and
boy/girl/ghost (TAR Chapbook Series, 2018). Here, greathouse discusses accessing “the register of self-mythologization”, writing from the “triangulated position of identity,” and the desire to “force readers especially cis abled readers to collapse the space between our bodies for the distance of a sonnet.” ....

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Feb 2, 2021
Our subconscious knows more about us than our waking selves. And it is often through dreams that we are able to tap into this unknown realm.
Writer Jackie Wang documented her dreams and sculpted them into poems for her debut collection
The Sunflower Cast A Spell To Save Us From The Void. The book is a surrealist expression of how social processes and traumas show up in our dreams, and how we can better understand ourselves by tuning into them.
Anytime I m going through a really difficult experience, I m always trying to work it out in my dream life, Wang says. ....

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