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Issue 144 features Alice Notley, Robert Ashley, Ben Vida, and more.

​With Arto Lindsay, Ben Vida and Amy Gernux, Kimberly Alidio, David Grubbs, Michał Libera, and Daniel Muzyczuk.

I met Kimberly Alidio in the summer of 2021, as a student in their Kundiman workshop, Documentary Poetics: Archive and Counter-Lyric. During our last session, we had been reflecting on Mei-mei Berssenbrugge’s interview in Jacket2, in which she talks about poetry becoming entropic, losing energy, and finding new form. My notes from this conversation include: “You go where the energy is.”

In response to anti-Asian hate crimes, Chua turned to poetry as a sanctuary to slow down time and heal collective wounds. Chua's writing journey was influenced by many Stanford offerings, such as the creative writing program and the Spoken Word Collective.