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Speaking Japanese
“These days, learning a language feels particularly significant and necessary. Learning a language: a small multiplication of life in a world of multiplying death.”
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Ars Poetica with Everything Ending, so Everything Beginning
“Let’s try this again. I am one of many people in love. I am a human of being human. Skin like everyone else and lots of heart. Too much music might kill me. Too little too.”
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On Imperfect Apples, Mosquito Bites, and the Consciousness of Worms
“I like to believe our small acts make a difference, or maybe I just want to be a savior.”
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Prayers for My Homecoming
“Sometimes my body just wants me and I give her me. Then we are good to each other: the wave rushing toward the shore, crashing violently, then retreating back into herself.”
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Ars Poetica
“Brought back to the smooth oil, our skin so platonic in the bathroom light. / Enough secrecy for love, enough ugliness for comfort.”
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Winter in April: On Chen Chen, Defecation, and Asian Bodies
“Mostly, though, we all laughed together because so much more makes us similar than what makes us different—albeit critically different. And I would say, too, wonderfully different.”
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‘Different Tools for Enduring’: An interview with Tracy K. Smith
A Nass writer sits down with the United States Poet Laureate and Princeton Professor to discuss Blackness, the pandemic, and poetry.
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Saturday Afternoon
“We stood, then sat, like that for a while: just ourselves, so small. It made us feel so together and so apart, as if it were the first day we met.”
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Telescoping Rhythm
In the succeeding entries, we telescope “rhythm.” Sonically evocative and personally connotative, we examine the word in its multiplicity of meanings.
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