• Books
  • Teaching Online
    • Filipina Lit Online Community Class July – August 2022
    • Filipina/x-Centric Online Poetry Workshop July 2022
  • Contact

Writings Archive

  • Dear Brown Girl: If you want to know what and why I am writing in 2022
    Dear Brown Girl, It’s a new year, and I arrive […]
  • The beginnings of a book project
    This is an ongoing outline/list of ideas, reading […]
  • Is This Diasporic Pinay Mythopoetics
    With the permission of author and publisher Christina […]
  • The Book of Asking
    Questions while reading Pinay authored literature What […]
  • What happens when a group of young Pinoy and Pinay writers, artists, and students — Flips — take the means of production into their own hands.
    What follows is my introduction to the […]
Skip to content
Barbara Jane Reyes
  • Books
  • Teaching Online
    • Filipina Lit Online Community Class July – August 2022
    • Filipina/x-Centric Online Poetry Workshop July 2022
  • Contact

Author: Barbara Jane Reyes

On being an immigrant poet in America

by Barbara Jane ReyesWritingPosted on June 20, 2017December 14, 2021No Comments

I wrote this essay in around 2014, as I was invited to submit to the anthology, Others Will Enter the Gates: Immigrant Poets on Poetry, Influences, and Writing in America, edited by Abayomi Animashaun, and published by Black Lawrence Press in 2015. There’s some amount of retreading in my essays, as if I am corroborating …

Read more “On being an immigrant poet in America”

Posts navigation

1 2
Powered by WordPress Inspiro WordPress Theme by WPZOOM