Duan, Carlina 2022
in the basement with a broom. we
were kids, feral. gooseberry jam. real
smart lipped. four-square, too. cool
asphalt, shiny sneaker kings. we
watched the rats after she left
for work. tails: grey cords coiled. school
in the basement, slant windows, we
sat near a tipping sun.
– Carlina Duan, “Nainai Killed Rats”
Watch Carlina Duan’s 2022 reading with Lisa Low at the Chicago Poetry Center:
Carlina Duan begins at 3:14 minutes.
Read Carlina Duan’s interview with The Cincinnati Review:
Microreview and Interview: Carlina Duan’s “Alien Miss”
A conversation with Carlina Duan about her newest collection, “Alien Miss.”
I don’t want to hear the physics behind everything I do. I know it’s there, lurking like a greyhound moon in between my toothpaste, my thumbs, the body’s scribble. There are skin cells on my jeans. there is plurality in the way I leave myself behind.
– Carlina Duan, “Moon Pull”
Read Carlina Duan’s interview with Asian American Writers’ Workshop:
Confronting the Author: A Conversation with Carlina Duan
“I wanted to turn to actual living language-and reveal, through poetry, the contradictions or erasures or sometimes comic possibilities imposed by different texts.”
