laurel c. is a writer, teaching artist, and grassroots librarian from Taiwan. They have earned fellowships from Kundiman, Pink Door, the Poetry Foundation, and Undocupoets. Their work appears in Black Warrior Review, The Adroit Journal, Bettering American Poetry, and others. Currently finishing their undergraduate degree, they believe in long-distance phone calls and our collective liberation.
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APRIL POETRY: TWO POEMS BY LAUREL C.
laurel c. - April 16, 2020
Curated for National Poetry Month as part of "When did you first recognize me as your own?: A Folio of Undocupoets Fellows"
This April, to recognize and honor National Poetry Month, we curated a folio of poems by four Asian American Undocupoets Fellows. This page features laurel c.'s "summer, 2003" and "asylum." We invite you to take a moment to read the other poems in this collection here.
— Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello, Poetry Editor
summer, 2003