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The Composer, As He Watches:
(Set in Bushwick, 2015) Listen to the audio version and read the piece below.
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March 2024

The Math Story: A Saturday State of Mind
Audio version! Listen below. (Original text version below that.)
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When We are Going Home
audio version of my new poem, with the text below
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The Math Story, A Saturday State of Mind
I believed I was bad at math for many years, perhaps because, in comparison to my experience of language, well. I couldn't simply inhale and memorize…
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February 2024

"Ferdinand" (the Bull) - Live Performance
composed for violin and narrator, followed by an interview
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When we are going home
You who are settled here So confident in your mass and volume That what you touch will yield to you Resting in the place you inhabit Thinking it is…
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January 2024

"She Gets Nowhere"
I’m not consciously eavesdropping, but this apartment is an intimate venue, so to hear is to listen. My roommate, Camille, paces the apartment yelling…
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187 Days Till Disney World
I was at the orthopedic pediatrician’s office. I was 17. Getting my crooked, curly spine checked out at my appointment for scoliosis management. The…
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Futurist Folktale #1: The Nitrogen Death Salesman
With author’s note
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Take Your Daughter to Work Day
The anointing
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Listen to: "The Dog Who Fell from the Sky"
Audio (4 mins.) and text versions below
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December 2023

"Souvenirs" written by SHANNON TYO
GUEST POST: A homecoming-foreign tourist-seeker encounters Seoul.
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