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 . . .
Author: Staff
MAXINE HONG KINGSTON
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
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.
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
J. DREW LANHAM
Two Poems
What did the house sparrow witness
from asphalt level
Field Note: Why I Write to Birds
“When I can bring identification from field guide to feeling guide and into another’s conscious as a fellow living being worthy of adoration, the work for that sentence or stanza or story is, for the moment, done.”