death of a parent
Track
Hempel, Amy. At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom. New York: Knopf, 1990.
Track
Chang, Victoria. Obit. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2020.
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Chang, Victoria. The Trees Witness Everything. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2022.
Reading
Rigoberto González reads from his memoir What Drowns the Flowers in Your Mouth: A Memoir of Brotherhood (2018) and his newest collection of poetry The Book of Ruin (2019).
Reading
Victoria Chang reads from her published works Obit (2020), Dear Memory (2021), and The Trees Witness Everything (2022). She also shares new, uncollected poems. Chang's poems touch upon grief from the death of her parents, as well as found material from family archives. She also reads work structured in a Japanese syllabic form called waka.