Tag: French

• May (XIV)

  A personal essay.

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  May 14, 2025

  America, belonging, Chinese, Chinese Exclusion Act, French, identity, language, Poetry, Prose

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• La pêcheuse

  Une ode à une amie / An ode to a friend.

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  March 25, 2025

  Poetry, sea, love, French, fish, français, pêcheuse, fisherwoman, mer, poisson, amour

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• Revisions (July 2024)

  A look back at a month of writing.

  

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  July 31, 2024

  America, Belgium, Canada, China, dVerse, French, homecoming, Hong Kong, memory, poetics, Poetry, Prose, Revisions, roundup

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• Terroir (VI)

  Or: “Lexicon.” For the Belgians.

  

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  July 27, 2024

  Belgium, Dutch, French, language, language learning, lexicon, Poetry, terroir

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• Dans ce coin du monde

  Quatre poèmes tentatives écrit à la Ville de Québec.

  

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  July 5, 2024

  Cantonese, citadel, family, français, francophone Canada, French, neighbors, Poetry, Québec, restaurant, Vietnamese food

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• Couleur de ma poétique

  Au Jardin Botanique de Montréal. / At the Botanical Garden in Montréal.

  

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  July 4, 2024

  botanical gardens, color, français, French, Montréal, poetics, Poetry, space

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• Un retour à Montréal

  Des instantanés et poèmes tentatives sur une ville préférée. // Snapshots and short verses on a favorite city.

  

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  July 2, 2024

  Basilique Notre-Dame, Canada, Chinese food, fortune, fortune cookie, French, jazz, Montréal, Photography, Poetry

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• Every Day We Practice

  On holding onto the languages (and their speakers) we love. For H. W.

  

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  June 30, 2024

  America, Belgium, Cantonese, childhood, China, Dutch, English, fluency, French, Hong Kong, identity, language, language learning, Mandarin, multilingualism

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