
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”
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”
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”
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!)”
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”
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.””
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”
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.””
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”
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”
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”