SoCal Poets Convo: Jeremy Ra & Aruni Wijesinghe

Описание: In this episode of SoCal Poets in Conversation, Jeremy Ra and Aruni Wijesinghe discuss their new collaborative collection and their experiences navigating the local literary scene as members of a "racial minority."

JEREMY RA is a queer, Chinese-Korean-American poet living in Los Angeles, author of “Another Way of Loving Death” (Moon Tide Press, 2023) and co-author with Aruni Wijesinghe of “God is a river running down my palm” (Picture Show Press, 2024). He received the Morton Marcus Poetry Prize and was twice a finalist for the Steve Kowit Poetry Prize. He is a Pushcart and Best-of-the-Net nominee and a Pen Center Emerging Voices finalist. His poems have appeared in Spillway, I-70 Review, Cultural Daily, San Diego Poetry Annual, and Catamaran Literary Reader, among other publications. He co-hosts the Poetry.LA Interview Series on YouTube.

ARUNI WIJESINGHE is a Sri Lankan-American writer whose debut full-length poetry collection, “2 Revere Place,” was published by Moon Tide Press in 2022. Her second collection, “The Litany of Missing” also came out in 2022. She co-authored “The Undulating Line” (Picture Show Press, 2021) and co-authored with Jeremy Ra the chapbook “God is a river running down my palm” (Picture Show Press, 2024). She has been published in anthologies and journals both nationally and internationally. A native New Yorker, she now resides in Southern California.