Q&A It’s interesting to think about moving through the sections of the book like moving through different rooms in a building Q&A The poems are built on a foundation of refusal — to choose between two truths Q&A I try very hard to make the English language sound beautiful. But in doing so, I can’t ignore how language (and yes, even poetry) can also be made odious, or how eloquence can be used for malintent. Q&A ...that’s how memory works. There are always addendums, always missing details, always mess and emotion and things you can’t recall until much later. Q&A Many of the poems in the collection deal with guilt and shame because, for me, those are often the emotions that spur a poem and make me feel I need to write. Q&A I wanted to pay homage to Asian American women in my life and writers, which is why there is Mitski.
Q&A with Jess Yuan, author of Slow Render
Q&A with Sarah Ghazal Ali, author of Theophanies
Q&A with Saba Keramati, author of Self-Mythology
Q&A with Jacqui Germain, author of Bittering the Wound
Q&A with Natasha Rao, author of Latitude
Q&A with Joshua Nguyen, author of Come Clean
Gauri Awasthi
EDITOR, Q&A
Gauri Awasthi is an Indian poet and environmentalist. An M.F.A graduate of McNeese State University, she has won awards from Sundress Academy For The Arts, Louisiana Division of the Arts Individual Artist Grant, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Community of Writers, and Kundiman. Her writing has been published in Quarterly West, Notre Dame Review, The Rumpus, Buzzfeed and others. She teaches the Decolonizing Poetry Workshop at Catapult.
