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“We Don’t Scare That Easily” — Asian American Public Art
The baseless dehumanization of one group of people dehumanizes everyone. On January 31, surveillance footage captured a hooded man violently shoving a 91-year-old Asian man to the ground in broad daylight in Oakland, California. The same day, the suspect is said to have assaulted a 60-year-old man and a 55-year-old woman in a similar way……
Othered in a Land of Your Own: Review of Natalie Diaz’s “Postcolonial Love Poem”
Collections that sing their way across the temporal as rhapsodic as they do the spiritual often invite the audience into the poet’s world, guided by vocabulary and images rooted in the poet’s own distinct patterns of speech. Each time I flip open Mojave Natalie Diaz’s Postcolonial Love Poem, I am squarely on the climax of…
Listen to episode 2 of The LJ Pod. Little Jefferson’s Reeham Ahmed captivates us with her imagination and early career goals.
Editor Interview: Kyra Jee
Ailun Shi joins us as Guest Editor for our ninth issue ‘Gibberish’. Read her words of wisdom and learn more about this issue.
Listen to episode 1 of The LJ Pod. Fareh Malik has erupted forth into the field of written poetry like fresh-water does an estuary.
Crushed Marigold: A Sacred Experience
A Review of Christiana Castillo’s Crushed Marigold.
Poet Feature: Bao Phi
“Put a blindfold on me / tell me who you fear / and I will tell you / your skin” (94). This stanza from spoken-word poet and activist, Bao Phi, is included in his first collection of poetry entitled, Sông I Sing. The words quoted above come from a poem in the collection entitled “8…
Editor Interview: Ailun Shi
Ailun Shi joins us as Guest Editor for our ninth issue ‘Gibberish’. Read her words of wisdom and learn more about this issue.
Lucky Jefferson announces its 2021 Pushcart Prize nominees.
Lucky Jefferson announces its 2021 Best of The Net nominees.
