What We Can Do With Our Hands: On Collage
You can read/view Michelle Peñaloza's poems and collages in BR's Issue 86 here. I. I started making collages at the start of this year, the day after I learned the pregnancy, we’d been trying to…
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Michelle Peñaloza
Michelle Peñaloza is the author of Former Possessions of the Spanish Empire, winner of the 2018 Hillary Gravendyk National Poetry Prize (Inlandia Books, 2019) and All The Words I Can Remember Are Poems, winner of Persea Books’ 2024 Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award, forthcoming in Fall 2025. The proud daughter of Filipino immigrants, Michelle was born in the suburbs of Detroit, MI and raised in Nashville, TN. She now lives in rural Northern California.
What We Can Do With Our Hands: Collages and Poems
Hanggang Sa Muli We see our dead everywhere. A butterfly, a bat—Lola? Dad? Is that you? Just today, I saw my father in the long finger of an okra, overgrown past peak deliciousness. It waggled…
Arctic Play: A Conversation with Mita Mahato and Michelle Peñaloza
Arctic Play by Mita Mahato (The 3rd Thing Press, October 2024, pre-order here)Read an excerpt here on BR! Michelle Peñaloza: What inspired you to create Arctic Play, and how did your experience as a part…