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August 16, 2017
How a Brown Girl Makes a Book Happen [Part 5]
It takes so much grit. This is a difficult time to write the kind of poems I want to write … Read More “How a Brown Girl Makes a Book Happen [Part 5]”
Author: Barbara Jane Reyes
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August 13, 2017
How a Brown Girl Makes a Book Happen [Part 4]
It takes so much courage. When Poeta en San Francisco made its way into the world, way back in the day, … Read More “How a Brown Girl Makes a Book Happen [Part 4]”
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August 11, 2017
How a Brown Girl Makes a Book Happen [Part 3]
It takes so much heart. I have been using this phrase, the “heart’s language,” for the last few days. I’m … Read More “How a Brown Girl Makes a Book Happen [Part 3]”
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August 9, 2017
How a Brown Girl Makes a Book Happen [Part 2]
As I was saying (writing) the other day, it takes a lot of faith. My first book was published in … Read More “How a Brown Girl Makes a Book Happen [Part 2]”
August 8, 2017
How a Brown Girl Makes a Book Happen
It takes so much faith, and grit. Yes, and alas, if only it were that simple. This morning on the … Read More “How a Brown Girl Makes a Book Happen”
June 20, 2017
Essay: On being an immigrant poet in America
I wrote this essay in around 2014, as I was invited to submit to the anthology, Others Will Enter the … Read More “Essay: On being an immigrant poet in America”
June 15, 2017
Essay: To Decenter English (Re: the Forked Tongue!)
Dredging my Google Drive for my essays continues! This one is forthcoming in the Wesleyan University Press poetics volume, American … Read More “Essay: To Decenter English (Re: the Forked Tongue!)”
June 12, 2017
Essay: Towards a Pinay “We” Poetics
Part of my work progress and process on the Some Brown Girl: Notes on Pinay Liminality manuscript will be a refocus of … Read More “Essay: Towards a Pinay “We” Poetics”
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June 10, 2017
[Manuscript Progress] Some Brown Girl: Notes on Pinay Liminality, Including My Old Essay, “On Feminism, Women of Color, Poetics, and Reticence” In Response to “Numbers Trouble.”
Some Brown Girl: Notes on Pinay Liminality! It’s taking shape! I’d said I wanted my next manuscript to be more prose … Read More “[Manuscript Progress] Some Brown Girl: Notes on Pinay Liminality, Including My Old Essay, “On Feminism, Women of Color, Poetics, and Reticence” In Response to “Numbers Trouble.””
May 30, 2017
How to become an author in ten (or so) easy (or not so easy) steps
This post is a revision and/or a reiteration of a previous blog post — actually a reiteration of many different blog … Read More “How to become an author in ten (or so) easy (or not so easy) steps”