Poet Lore and The Writer’s Center present a FREE virtual chat about the craft of poetry! We’re joined by Carlina Duan to discuss her latest poetry collection, Alien Miss. Carlina is in conversation with Emily Holland, poet and Editor of Poet Lore, America’s oldest poetry journal.
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Carlina Duan is a writer-educator from Michigan, and the author of poetry collections I Wore My Blackest Hair (Little A, 2017) and Alien Miss (University of Wisconsin Press, 2021). She currently teaches at the University of Michigan, where she is also a Ph.D. student in the Joint Program in English and Education. You can find her work in Narrative Magazine, BOAAT Journal, The Rumpus, Gulf Coast, and other places. She is a big fan of gardens. Find her on (and sometimes off) Twitter @ccduan.
About the Book
In her stunning second collection, Carlina Duan illuminates unabashed odes to lineage, small and sacred moments of survival, and the demand to be fully seen “spangling with light.” Tracing familial lore and love, Duan reflects on the experience of growing up as a diasporic, bilingual daughter of immigrants, exploring the fraught complexities of identity, belonging, and linguistic reclamation. Alien Miss brings forth beautifully powerful voices: immigrants facing the Chinese Exclusion Act, the first Chinese American woman to vote, and matriarchal ancestors. The poems in this ambitious collection are immersed in the knotted blood of sisterhood, both celebrating and challenging conceptions of inheritance and homeland.