This poem is in response to Janice Mirikitani’s “Round Eyes” poem and also inspired by something another MFA student said about girls in Korea. He said there was a specific face that Korean girls will try to achieve through plastic surgery and that these procedures are highly common, often given as graduation gifts or […]
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Race in Poetry: A Creative Imitation and Experiment of Racial Bias
I Am a White Woman I am a white woman the sound of my speech some distant crescendo of laughs is written in a minor key and I can be heard laughing in the light Can be heard […]