According to my Submittable account and other calculations, my work has been rejected 68 times since 2011.   That’s an average of 5.2...

Way back when, we were the kind of people who waited for a table at Roberta’s (of Bushwick) to eat pizza. I don’t even remember the...

Summarize, yes. Surrender, no. We focus so much on what is going on in our lives often leading to an intense scrutiny of ourselves that...

Am I a problematic trope? I have been reading Jenny Pak's book about Korean women and their roles in adjustment and acculturation when...

The second time I visited Martha's Vineyard for summer vacation, we happened upon a flower picking farm and I couldn't believe that such...

The defense for not race mixing...in small white liberal colleges. When I told my parents I wanted to go to a small school in Vermont, I...

When I order fried chicken wings from my neighborhood Chinese take-out, am I falling under the spell of colonialism? Or am I just...

What does it mean to exist in the Diaspora? It means to be in and of the world. I came to the US when I was two years old, and then sent...

My second book of poems was chosen by Amerie's Book Club (ABC) as their Monday Selection on Instagram. Amerie is an African...

I like to read whilst I do laundry at our 15th street laundromat. I found a New York Times Styles mag from November 2021 (sometimes I...

The act of reading your words out loud, the words you've been gestating in your soul, heart and brain for days, months, years (or even...

I went to the wrong school for college. Why did I think a very white, exclusive small college in a very white small town in a very white...