Dear Brown Girl, It’s a new year, and I arrive again at questions of writing. This morning, it occurred to me that I have expended a lot of energy trying to explain the “how” piece, elaborating on craft and construction. I used to think this was what students and readers wanted to hear — how …
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This is an ongoing outline/list of ideas, reading materials, et al, as I am thinking about my next next book project. On social media, I noted: in so many of the Filipino American community events I participate in as a poet, the same question in different iterations always arises: “Why poetry?” “Why do you write …
Questions while reading Pinay authored literature What do we see, and what do we not see in the literature? What is women’s work? Who gets to write books? Who has access to literacy? Who has access to formal education? To secondary education? To college education? Who has access to (constitutional and social) freedom of speech? …