Tag: language

• Gift-giving

  On what matters. Written in haiku.

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  December 10, 2024

  age, children, giftgiving, holidays, language, love, Poetry, winter

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• Discovery

  For my niece.

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  December 2, 2024

  children, currency, discovery, gifts, language, plastic, Poetry, toys, words, world

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• Caravan

  A vision of language.

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  November 9, 2024

  caravan, desert, language, Poetry, words

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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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• 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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• An Exercise

  A rhetorical answer to a rhetorical question.

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  June 26, 2024

  adaptation, border crossing, borders, internationalization, interview, language, Poetry, tongue

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• Rust

  Een gedicht over taal / a poem about language (in Dutch; English translation at the very end).

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  June 22, 2024

  Dutch, English, language, Nederlands, Poetry, rest, rust, sleep

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• 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

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• Notes for a Poet of Many Names

  Abstractions of the self (best read on desktop). After Wallace Stevens, Robert Hayden, and others. For all who call me by my names.

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  June 16, 2024

  abstract, character, Chinese, concrete poetry, identity, language, names, poet, poetics, Poetry, self

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• Local English: A Monologue

  

  Alright—no flights of fancy, no twisted syntax. Let’s just talk.

  No, sorry: I’ll talk to you first, and then we’ll see where this goes.

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  May 30, 2024

  adjustment, America, Belgium, English, Europe, homecoming, language, New Jersey, speech, voice

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