Melgard’s work cleaves personal agency from automated defaults by mapping trauma and technocracy from the inside out
maar wat is de positie van de vrouw in deze maatschappij
Rauwe beelden worden opgevolgd door erupties van tederheid
Going behind writing to start language afresh
Her writing comes out of the experience of growing up with 'Bidoon' status (from 'bidoon jinsiya' or 'without nationality')
Siblings Kayo Chingonyi Melgard’s work cleaves personal agencyJay Bernard, Mary Jean Chan, Will Harris, Nisha Ramayya Convened by Will Harris, Siblings is a roundtable conversation between four poets on writing communities, real and imaginary siblings, and first encounters with poetry. Thinking through the lyric modes wayward directions speaking sideways to peers and siblings, writing vertically to parentage, lineage, literary histories these four poets talk to each other as makers and friends about the