Alice Liang

Alice Liang is a poet based in Brooklyn, NY. Her work has been published in Sine Theta, Cherry Tree, Poets Reading the News, and elsewhere. She is currently working on her first poetry manuscript, Beforelife.

 

FEBRUARY POETRY: "THIS HOUSE DRINKS NO WATER" BY ALICE LIANG

When I was a child, my mother told me not to drink water with meals, citing a number of digestion-related health reasons. Years later, I drank water when I could not afford food. Alice Liang's poem reminds me of those years, and of all the history captured in the habits we are taught at home.

—Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello, Poetry Editor
 


This House Drinks No Water