about
hello! my name is rin and welcome to my neocities!very much a work in progress at the moment :) in the meantime, you're welcome to check out my substack
favorite poems
here's a list of some of my absolute favorite poems by various authors :)"How to Let Go of the World" by Franny Choi
"Unlove Poem" by Franny Choi
"Revisionist History" by Tiana Nobile
"Object Permanence" by Hala Alyan
"Wife in Reverse" by Hala Alyan
"Heritage" by George Abraham
"Unarchaeology of Father" by George Abraham
"Would I Change All I Know for Unknowing" by Daniel Barnum
"The World's Loneliest Whale Sings the Loudest Song and Other Confessions" by Noor Hindi
"A list of things my mother compared my thighs to" by Chau Anh Nguyen
"Ghazal for What's Left in the Throat" by Aman Rahman
"Filling Station" by Elizabeth Bishop
"Such Sweet Thunder" by A. Van Jordan
"Having a Great Time Being Transgender in America Lately" by Jackie Sabbagh
"I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies" by June Jordan
"Look" by Franny Choi
"i love you to the moon &" by Chen Chen
"Reasons for Staying" by Ocean Vuong
"I bled through the entire month of April" by Kush Thompson
"M A S H" by Kush Thompson
"Duplex" by Jericho Brown
"As Capitalism Gasps for Breath I Watch the Knicks Game" by Yesenia Montilla
"Letter to June Jordan in September" by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
"palestinians handshake emoji spiders" by Fargo Tbakhi
From "Girls That Never Die" by Safia Elhillo
"Intifada Incantation" by June Jordan
"They will blame it on your asexuality" by Nour Kamel (unavailable online but support mizna!)
"First Warm Sunday of the Year" by Safia Elhillo
"Ghazal: With Prayer" by Zeina Hashem Beck
"On Creating False Memory" by Sarah Audsley
"Now, where are you from?" by Sarah Audsley
"Animal Medicine" by Leah Silvieus
"Origins & Forms: Eight Sijos" by Sarah Audsley
"Ode to Elliott Smith, Ending in the First Snowfall of 2003" by Hanif Abdurraqib
"Circle 'C' If You Just Don't Know" by Chen Chen
essays+
and some favorite essays (as well as interviews/transcripts etc) too!"The Enjambed Body: A Step Toward a Crippled Poetics" by Jim Ferris
"Resistance and Reclamation: Three Poets Revise the Narrative of Transracial, Transnational Adoption" by Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello, Ansley Moon, and Tiana Nobile
"All That Glisters Is Not Gold" NPR episode on the feasability of performing problematic shakespeare plays to do good instead of harm
"Hamlet Is a Suicide Text—It’s Time to Teach It Like One" by Jeffrey R. Wilson
"Hamlet's Older Brother" by Bert O. States
playlists
some of my recent favorite playlists + songs that give me physical chest painsbuttons
