I’m speaking on March 18th on a panel of artists at the Longmont Museum about the intersection between justice and the arts. I’ll be joined by Cipriano Ortega, Jaycee Beyale, and Christina Pittaluga. To access the live stream and details, click here.
2021 Juniper Literary Festival
I’m very excited to be joining an alumni panel to present and be in dialogue together at this year’s Juniper Festival, March 12-13 2021. . The theme is The World and The Word: Literature of the Ecological Crisis.
The entire event looks amazing! I’ll be participating Saturday night.
Saturday, March 13: Alumni Reading and Conversation, 8pm EST | Register Now
Readings & conversation with renowned alumni Sueyeun Juliette Lee (MFA ’06), Travis Nichols (MFA ’04), Jason Schwartz (MFA ’06), and Leni Zumas (MFA ’04). Molly Dorozenski (MFA ’04) will moderate a conversation following the reading. Madden Aleia (MFA ’23), Colin Drohan (MFA ’22), Jane Feinsod (MFA ’23), and Mary Kate Scraggs (MFA ’21) will introduce our readers.
Awarding Our Alienation
I wrote this think piece, “Awarding Our Alienation,” for the Smithsonian Institute’s 2017 inaugural Asian American Literature Festival. I never published it, but it still feels relevant, so I’m sharing it here…
Untitled at the Denver Art Museum
I’m very excited to be supporting Joshua Ware and Eileen Rocina Richardson’s takeover night at the Denver Art Museum on January 31st. They’ll be presenting some of their work including a collaborative sculpture. Sommer Browning, Phil Cordelli, and I will be sharing some poetry and performance art as part of the event.
Underground National is out of print–you can download it now here for free
I received a note from my former publisher, Bill Marsh at Factory School, that he was no longer able to host or sell copies of my second book, Underground National. I was pretty sad to hear this, as that book felt like a great leap forward for me and a genuine contribution to experimental and diaspora literatures. I considered shopping it around a few other presses, but decided I just want the work out in the world. It’s available now as a free download on my site.
The only sad thing about this option is that I no longer have the image files of the beautiful cover image that Bekhyon Yim designed for this book. It’s one of my favorites–I love the minimalism and clarity of the design.
I’m Teaching a Poetry Workshop in Denver
I’m teaching an 8-week Advanced Poetry Writing course with the Lighthouse Writers Workshop. Registration is limited to 8 participants:
Equal parts salon, curiosity incubator, and a community of practice, this workshop invites members to dive into the questions we are most engaged with as writers in the world. How is our writing a necessary intervention to salvage our collective humanity?
This advanced workshop is for writers who have a solid sense of craft and are interested in developing a personal poetics. Though members will have the opportunity to share work and receive collective feedback, our time together will look more like a salon focused on discussion and conversation rather than critique. In addition to developing a poetics statement and small portfolio of work for responses, members in this workshop will be invited to design and lead some of our meetings’ themed discussions. Sessions may include somatic exercises, off-site adventures, and non-literary assignments. Best for: experimenters, cross-disciplinary junkies, those open to being pushed and committed to digging in.
Counterpath
I’m supporting Andre Ex, Natalie Sharp, and Jaime Fountaine at Counterpath this Friday in Denver!
I write about the Academic Poetry Industrial Complex for the Poetry Foundation
As part of National Poetry Month, I was asked to write a short blog post for the Poetry Foundation. My piece is titled “Self Portrait in an Academic Poetry Industrial Complex Mirror.” I decided to write about academic poetry, power dynamics, the relationship between rigor in writing and rigor’s complicity in the student loan crisis. There’s a lot in there. I end on cute animals. It’s a fairly honest assessment of where I currently land related to all these issues.
Also, I find the graphic for the essay HILARIOUS. I’m grateful to my boyfriend for finding someone to do this quickly for me. I’m referencing the avant-garde’s, academicization and institutionalization through an oblique glance at John Ashbery with this image. 
Here’s a brief excerpt:
When I was asked to write this blog post, I had many topics I considered, but I kept returning to this—that the relative rareness of my not being in academia is in fact a rare thing… especially when I can’t help but feel that my work is so, well, academic.
What I’ll try to touch on is the relationship between experimental aesthetics and economic exploitation in the academic poetry industrial complex. Are you a PhD escapee, like me? Do you want to get an advanced creative writing degree? Are you writing faculty somewhere? My post will hopefully resonate with you.
Suchitra Mattai at the Denver Art Museum
I’ll be supporting the incredible Suchitra Mattai’s Final Friday takeover event at the Denver Art Museum at the end of this month. If you haven’t had the chance to experience her thoughtful installation and textile work, RUN to this.
You will find me reading some poems in the Jordan Casteel exhibition (!!!) with the beautiful Serena Chopra.
I had the chance to be part of a group show Joshua Ware curated at Georgia Gallery in Denver last year with Suchitra, and I’m a HUGE FAN.
The whole night should be a lot of fun with tons of engagement opportunities for folks of all ages.
Paper YiDeum
I can’t express how grateful I am to Janice Lee and YiDeum Kim for bringing so many Korean American authors to readers in South Korea through this special bilingual publication.
They selected an excerpt of the work I pulled together for my Peace Light installation, which included language from so many people I love and respect.
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