It is a reckoning on sisters and queers after themes of family violence, sibling disconnection and queer isolation emerge.
"It is in finding these solutions, the tape and the glue that holds us all together, that we find the beauty of who we are as people."
I worry about survival. Bluntly put, according to the Academy of Sciences almost every person on earth will be affected by climate change.
"I called out the demons one by one. I named them. I gave them precise blocking and ultimately, I controlled where they stood, breathed, and bourréed. I gave them an entrance, and a stage, and then I sent them away."
In my work , the issues of depression, anxiety, and bulimia nervosa are discussed heavily.
This poem, entitled "Work Out," is about how I dealt with 2020. It's a writing exercise I didn't realize I needed to do.
In my poetry, I highlight negative depictions of Catholic religion and discuss how they differ from my own experiences as a Catholic.
I use poetry to describe living with ME/CFS, an illness that is chronic and invisible, thus bringing awareness to this little known diagnosis.
Within the context of this poem, I tried to explain what was happening to my body because of SLE and what I was thinking.
"I see myself as someone whose organic inquiry and teaching are shaped by radical love, and I am willing to let myself be changed by my students."
I write out of the consciousness that I am both a product of the violence of war and a migratory being—not only in the strictest sense of physical displacement, but also in belonging.
The Ultimate Wave: Prose Poetry of the Pandemic and Parents Author’s Memo “The Wave” examines the problem of pleasure and...
