Lin, Willie 2022
Wednesday, October 19, 2022
Blue Hour Reading Series with Willie Lin and Dipika Mukherjee
Haymarket House
Blue Hour Reading Series with Willie Lin and Dipika Mukherjee
Haymarket House
No one wanted to do it, no one wanted
to look at a thing so large, helpless
to die or live, not knowing what to ask for itself.
To imagine an after. Even less to change it.
– Willie Lin, “A Story Ending with an Offering”
Watch Willie Lin’s 2022 reading with Dipika Mukherjee at the Chicago Poetry Center:
Willie Lin begins at 11:29 minutes.
Already, the crops are failing.
The crows shuttling back and forth,
breaking branches, dropping stones.
How easy to read sadness
into the empty room. It is yours.
– Willie Lin, “Birth”
