“If you write a poem you’re in conversation with every poem ever written,” says Emily Lee Luan, author of 回 / Return (Nightboat Books, 2023), in this promotional video for the Jersey City Reads Poems series, presented by Monira Foundation and ROQ Initiative, in which she discusses her writing process and reads a poem from her chapbook I Watch the Boughs. For more from Luan, read her installment of our Ten Questions series.
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