Barbara Jane Reyes
Notes on Pinay Liminality
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Aug
16
2017
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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 ...
Aug
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 ...
Aug
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 ...
Aug
09
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 ...
Aug
08
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 ...
Jun
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 ...