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). She is also the author of landscape/heartbreak (Two Sylvias, 2015) and the recipient of fellowships and awards from the University of Oregon and Kundiman. Michelle has also received support from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Loghaven, Willapa Bay AIR, Caldera, 4Culture, Artist Trust, PAWA (Philippine American Writers and Artists), Literary Arts, VONA/Voices, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, among others. The proud daughter of Filipino immigrants, Michelle was born in the suburbs of Detroit, MI and raised in Nashville, TN. She 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…