Posts by: Abigail Licad

Of Grievance and Grief: Marilyn Chin

Jul, 2014 | by

I first encountered Marilyn Chin’s poetry through a video clip from the San Diego Border Voices Poetry Festival. In the clip Chin—with her wild wavy hair and red lipstick—faces the…

Galvinizing Fury: Elizabeth Willis’ Address

Mar, 2011 | by

In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare has Theseus describe poetic undertaking as that which “gives to airy nothing / A local habitation and a name.” It is therefore fitting that Elizabeth…