#ginger ko

[lifeinpoetry]

I am so worthless that my body serves as brick, conscripted to build up my prison until it is time to lay my own body down for the walls.

— Ginger Ko, from “An Animal Unfit for Living Unmolested,” published in PoetryNow

[bostonpoetryslam]

The powerful want so much to be our siblings, to acknowledge relatedness to monstrous poor. They see themselves in the finely-bred birds that cry out until they die at laying age.

Ginger Ko, “Smooth Cruelty Can Be Sacred Regularity,” published in Redivider

[gorgonpoetics]

#gorgonpoetics

1. Lisa Cattrone, Ginger Ko, Joy Ladin, erica lewis, Raquel Salas-Rivera

2. Shannon Barber, Jennifer Marie Bartlett, Michelle Detorie, Nikki Wallschlaeger

3. Sarah Boyle & MK Chavez

4. Lynne DeSilva-Johnson & Juliette Guilbert

5. Pei-Jung Lee, Nanci Armstrong-Temple, & Melissa Hardie

[lifeinpoetry]

I am programmed to this language, and can only voice my rejection of it in the same language. This is the power of diaspora, the difficulty in finding alternative.

— Ginger Ko, from “An Animal Unfit for Living Unmolested,” published in PoetryNow

[bostonpoetryslam]

I have been conditioned by anger, disapproval. I want a clean life the way they say things should be clean— eternal and unembarrassing. I am addicted to the turning over and over, flipping out beauty for a game.

Ginger Ko, “They Do Not Use Combustion at All, They Shoot Arrows,” published in The Wanderer

[lifeinpoetry]

I find that they have inherited only my deep unrequited longing to hear a voice gently calling Wake up, love. We all want it more than anything, the calling.

— Ginger Ko, from “Interval: Another War Against Species,” published in Court Green

[beaboutitpress]

DISASTER HORSE: smol essays, by Nooks Krannie is born and can now be purchased! 

Happy official release day, Nooks <3

Look at these lovely blurbs:

“Disaster Horse: Smol Essays surrounds us with abundance, but this permeation requires us to be thoughtful about so much access. “i don’t expect the same from you, i expect more. our thoughts are random. you and i are random,” writes one of the essays. The book dissects small instances in a material life—the body as it dreams, walks, gazes—and unfurling from each of these moments is an explosion of vivid memories, wry observations, and surreal parallel moments. Krannie refuses to be anchored by anything but the second-by-second potential of every physical act. The essays are confident with their vulnerability and disclosure, and though the worlds described are brimming and unceasing, they course straight past easy nostalgia or the overwhelm of present-time frenzy. These pieces are sure about the multidimensional reach of every person: our physical and emotional desires, our intergenerationally beholden relationships, and our daily contact with others. Disaster Horse also asks how we, the readers, have been changed by these essays. Read Krannie’s gorgeous writing and afterwards catch yourself walking through the world thinking, Where have we been, and where are we going?”

 - Ginger Ko, author of Motherlover

“Disaster Horse is a gorgeous, emotionally risky, book, filled with language so unique and heartfelt, you'll want to read it twice.”

- Chloe Caldwell, author of I'll Tell You in Person and Women 

"This book is a throbbing hallucination. Each sentence twists into a new landscape Nooks Krannie has a way of working over the details of the intimate relationship we have with ourselves and with others and presenting them to you in new, neon packaging, as if you’re looking at life for the very first time or as a visitor from an alien planet."

- Elle Nash, author of Animals Eat Each Other

[dk-thrive]

I am addicted to the turning over and over

“I have been conditioned by anger, disapproval. I want a clean life the way they say things should be clean— eternal and unembarrassing. I am addicted to the turning over and over, flipping out beauty for a game.” - Ginger Ko, “They Do Not Use Combustion at All, They Shoot Arrows,” published in The Wanderer (via Boston Poetry Slam)