Ally Ang

1 month ago | electricliterature.com | Jo Lou |Ally Ang

“Where do we go to find the myths that make us?” asks Patrycja Humienik in her debut poetry collection, We Contain Landscapes. This question, explored in Humienik’s crystalline voice that wields imagery with sensuality and aching precision, takes her readers to the mouth of a river, to letters exchanged with immigrant daughters, and to the gaps in memory that migration leaves behind. The speaker of We Contain Landscapes is “unbearably present.

Oct 23, 2024 | electricliterature.com | Jo Lou |Ally Ang

Skip to content interviews Her chapbook "I could die today and live again" explores the regenerative cycles of death and rebirth within video games “how lonely it can be / to be a certain type of character. singular purpose. looped dialogue,” writes Summer Farah in her poetry chapbook I could die today and live again, published by Game Over Books in 2024. The collection, which explores empire, intimacy, grief, and play amidst the backdrop of The Legend of Zelda, is haunted by cycles: the...

Jul 16, 2024 | poets.org | Ally Ang |Meg Day |Sam Sax

Skip to main contentFind and share the perfect poems. I used to think my body craved  annihilation. An inevitability,  like the slow asphyxiation  of the earth. Yoked to this body  by beauty, its shallow promises  I was desperate to believe,  too fearful to renounce my allegiance  even with its hand closing  around my throat. When I chose  myself, I chose surrender. God  is the river that remakes me  in its image. I didn’t know what  was waiting on the other side. I swam through it anyway.