People in soap operas always have more than enough candles. For dramatic dinners. For lovemaking. For dramatic post-lovemaking spats, tiffs, perhaps even squabbles. It’s possible. All thanks to candles. I would like to have a more candlelit life, but unscented, s’il vous plait.
Two new poems up at Poemeleon, as part of a special Asian Pacific American issue! So many thanks to Kenji Liu and Angela Peñaredondo for guest-editing, for gathering our voices, for examining what goes into a particular gathering, a particular constellation of language at this historical moment. Glad for your political insights, your necessary refusals.
And glad to share space with writers who challenge power and transform imagination: Ching-In Chen, Todd Kaneko, Michelle Lin, Rajiv Mohabir, Mg Roberts, Melissa Rae Sipin-Gabon, Timothy Yu, & others.
Holding this issue close to my heart, close to my everything right now.