My first Best American Essays Notable—for an essay about visiting my foster brother on death row; also, Beethoven & piano time, braided time & fate. The essay is “If It’s My Time,” originally published in Cincinnati Review. 🔥

Reading with Fatima-Ayan Malika Hirsi, Leah Tieger, and UAMFA Aria Pahari & Sophia Terazawa for Wilding our Damage, an Offering. Wed, 11/29 at 1 PM EST (11 AM AZ time). We are reading less to devote space for a collective silence for Palestine. brooklynrail.org/events/2023/11…

See you soon, KC. #AWP24

#AWP24 dance card. Can't wait to (re)connect with good people, to talk about disability justice and Chinese & German translations, & to celebrate Chinese New Year.🐉 Eshani Surya Jackie Rachel Jess the Writer @Lizard_Eyes gabedozal geramee josé olivarez Sophia Terazawa

The language we invited panelists and attendees of #AWP24 to share is below.

TODAY: Writing the Multilingual Poem: Codeswitching Across Cultures aka my first organizing attempt with gabedozal, good friend & multilingual collaborator. 1:45-3 PM at 2102A, Street Level. Wearing my fav red sweater dress for good luck #AWP24 #LunarNewYear 🐉

I really loved attending "Writing the Multilingual Poem" with Sylvia Chan, gabedozal, josé olivarez, geramee, and the endlessly entertaining Sophia Terazawa! So much fun.

Here's the news! Coming in 2025—Annulet Editions! Annulet Editions will publish one full-length collection of poetry and one work of literary criticism/prose a year. Submissions open May 12th, 2024. Read more (forever and) at annuleteditions.com

Birthday-Pisces feels courtesy of friend & Poetry Center. Another year 🌟.

This month I'm starting a new writing practice called THE AURELIE 30, in which I start/write something new every day in April, after an Aurelie Sheehan assignment. If you'd like to join me, it's easy. Info at aurelie30.org.

"To Paint Persimmons" by Sylvia Chan (Sylvia Chan) is our latest #poem, selected by April curator and Z?calo poetry editor Connie Voisine (Connie Voisine). zps.la/49iZELy

April poem; Friday poem; brother poem, "To Paint Persimmons." Remembering people who have long gone: isn't that what poetry is, to continue after we've grown? Thank you, Zócalo Public Square & Connie Voisine. #fostercare #NationalPoetryMonth zocalopublicsquare.org/2024/04/05/syl…

How many times have I heard a version of this quote, in real life (in my own life), and with all the foster children I work with, and with each future youth? Don't forget this. #fostercare

"The struggles of children in the foster care system are acutely described... full of ‘the unfulfilled loss and promise,’" says Zócalo poetry editor Connie Voisine (Connie Voisine) of Sylvia Chan's new poem "To Paint Persimmons." Read it here: zps.la/49iZELy

Reading & Q&A with Jane Miller this Wednesday, 4/17 at 4pm, CSWR Common Room Harvard Divinity! Jane will present poems from Paper Banners (@copper_canyon_press 2023) & from more recent work. Zoom & in-person registration: tinyurl.com/yj5yk6r9

Thank you, UA Poetry Center, for always supporting my work. Check out their “A Glimpse into Poetic Asian America”—& have a listen to “Unasylumed, unarchived” while you’re at it. What a lineage. #AAPIHeritageMonth

Today, we are launching the #Right2Hug Project because we believe everyone has the right to hug their family. Unfortunately, millions of children in the US are being denied this right because jails have banned them from visiting, and hugging, their parents. 🧵

Available now! A free discussion guide for DISABILITY INTIMACY by Esmé Weijun Wang • 汪蔚君 Accessible PDF: disabilityvisibilityproject.com/wp-content/upl… About the book: disabilityvisibilityproject.com/book/disabilit…

Been working on this anthology with Tyehimba Jess for the last year and I am SO THRILLED we finally get to announce it and open the process up for submissions. This is not just a love letter to Black letters, but a love letter to the communities that inspire Black letters. ✨