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”
Category: Writing
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”
May 25, 2017
“One of the things that young people need to know when they go into writing is that they ought to stop writing these stupid books that please people.”
Jamaica Kincaid is quoted as saying, “One of the things that young people need to know when they go into … Read More ““One of the things that young people need to know when they go into writing is that they ought to stop writing these stupid books that please people.””
May 24, 2017
Author pre-publication notes on Anxiety and Reticence
Friends, we’re getting close! Invocation to Daughters is due for release November 14. It’s going to come fast. I’ve just proofread … Read More “Author pre-publication notes on Anxiety and Reticence”
May 17, 2017
Processing through Alex Tizon’s story about “Lola” Eudocia Tomas Pulido
By now, everyone is talking about the late Alex Tizon’s story, “Our Family’s Slave,” which was just published yesterday, posthumously … Read More “Processing through Alex Tizon’s story about “Lola” Eudocia Tomas Pulido”
May 9, 2017
For #APIAHeritageMonth, Considering my Fil Am Immigrant Family History
It feels more than appropriate to begin this #APIAHeritageMonth post by saying, “Yes, my parents were right.” Of course they … Read More “For #APIAHeritageMonth, Considering my Fil Am Immigrant Family History”