Activism Poetry

We Eat Chicken Feet and We Are Not Dead

We eat chicken feet and we are not dead Our bowls are rimmed with bats and fire flies Our feet pedal sewing machines making blue denim jeans We march in Chinatown protesting discrimination Corona virus has no yellow skin nor brown eyes We are delivery workers, doctors, dancers, actors Our ancestors memorized the number of doors and windows in the home village, whether our fathers had more than one wife Our foremothers sold their bodies…

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Reviews

Summoning Ghosts: The art of painter Hung Liu (2013)

Oakland Museum of CaliforniaOakland, CAMarch 16 – June 30, 2014 With drips and washes, color, photography and shaped canvases, shelves and artifacts, the art of Hung Liu in her spring exhibit, Summoning Ghosts, at the Oakland Museum of California, feeds the eyes. What a joy it was to be present with the China-born artist’s energy reflected in the retrospective, which will be traveling nationally. This exhibit is a coming home of her work spanning from…

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Monologues Musings

TYPEWRITERBACKTALK: A Monologue (1980)

So you want to write.  A poet, a playwright a storyteller, a magician!  And to write, you think you have to be a sociologist, an environmentalist, a psychologist, an observer of human behavior, and a scholar too!  Well, prove it. The least you could do is pay attention to me.  How would you like to be covered up like this, not knowing the light basking in the colors of this universe?  Go, go!  Traipse around…

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