Between Two Rivers

Tag: identity

Northeast

A new series (one hopes!).
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October 5, 2025

identity, Northeast, place, Poetry
May (XIV)

A personal essay.
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May 14, 2025

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

A wish list for a new life.
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February 21, 2025

identity, life, Poetry, reincarnation, self, sonnet
Losing It (III)

On personal and professional identities.
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November 3, 2024

academia, colleagues, dissertation, eighteenth-century, English literature, identity, life, Prose, reunion, work
Category Error

A litany of repetitions. With thanks to dVerse for the prompt.
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October 24, 2024

dVerse, identity, Poetry, race, repetition, sameness
Commuting

On identity and movement.
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October 18, 2024

Belgium, commuting, Ghent, identity, New Jersey, New York, Philadelphia, Prose, purpose, work
On Your Mark

Leaving an imprint. (NB: Best viewed on desktop.)
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October 11, 2024

concrete poetry, experimental poetry, fingerprint, identity, poetics, Poetry, self, words
Terroir (I)

Or: “A Littoral Apology.” At the Raritan Bay Waterfront Park in South Amboy, NJ.

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July 22, 2024

apology, birds, grackles, identity, littoral, New Jersey, origins, poetics, Poetry, seagulls, terroir, terza rima
Every Day We Practice

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

The interior of Eastern Bookstore NYC (紐約東方書店), located at 13-17 Elizabeth Street in Manhattan’s Chinatown.
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June 30, 2024

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

Four poems.
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June 18, 2024

Asian American, belonging, Cantonese, color, Dutch, identity, language, Mandarin, Nederlands, Painting, Poetry, presence, skin, watercolor