SAL Essay Series
Writers preview the Seattle Arts & Lectures Poetry Series
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An Intimate Provocation: Jenny Xie’s The Rupture Tense
“To whom do we belong? Those whom we can see in photographs? Those we encounter in story? Or those we know in our blood?” –an essay by CMarie Fuhrman
Alter-Energies: The Vitalities of Absence in Moby Dick
“Such a world is one of interpenetrating energies—a large, looming but luminous consciousness, in which we ourselves might be but a half-articulate idea.” –Dan Beachy-Quick
Two Languages / One Community,
Together in Poetry
San Francisco-based poet Michael Warr and poet/translator Chun Yu co-founded Two Languages / One Community in 2015.
AL YOUNG
Two Poems
Just tell me who the hell am I?
What powers did I, do I hold?
MAXINE HONG KINGSTON
On The Way
I feel like a child, younger than this girl; I’m
telling about parents as if I still had them . . .
AFAA MICHAEL WEAVER
Two Poems
We are puppets, all parts of us
connected by strings, by loose wishes
GENNY LIM
Two Poems
Wind and darkness, like the cuckoo
Who returns from far off lands
MICHAEL WARR
Two Poems
I hear them singing a new song.
They hear each other sing . . .
CHUN YU
Three Poems
Stealthily, Death
caged my sight from behind