Jess Yuan

Oct 4, 2024 | theoffingmag.com | Gauri Awasthi |Jess Yuan |Angela Peñaredondo

Jess Yuan is the author of Slow Render (2024), winner of the Airlie Prize. Her poem “Composition” was previously published in the Kundiman 20th Anniversary Poetry Portfolio in collaboration with The Offing. Q&A conducted by Gauri Awasthi, Q&A Editor. Donate to The Offing! Our Patreon supporters received early access to this Q&A with Jess Yuan. The Offing pays our contributors, and we appreciate the help of all our supporters in sustaining our work.

Jun 3, 2024 | theadroitjournal.org | Jess Yuan

“You gave me this task./ I want to give it back.” Zoë Hitzig’s poem “Greedy Algorithm” ends on this couplet, creating a neat rhythm that encapsulates the exchange between speaker and addressee. As the task is passed between the “you” and “I,” rhyme creates a mirror between them, a confrontation between the human and machine.

May 8, 2024 | theoffingmag.com | Pichchenda Bao |Jess Yuan |Andy Chen |Shireen Madon

https://theoffingmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/First_Prayer.m4a Poured rose syrup over my cut-apart parts Healed my body, forced lush greenery around me in an imagined Bombay In Brooklyn, looked to lilac crystals my daughters collected and cataloged vaguely each visit to the museum Reminded to be nowhere ever, never where but this body Reminded I cannot be a part or apart of history but this body Reminded I close my eyes eating rice without dal down in New Orleans or dal without rice in...

May 7, 2024 | theoffingmag.com | Pichchenda Bao |Jess Yuan |Andy Chen |Iris Law

https://theoffingmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/One_Refugee_Poets_Origin_Story.m4aI knew I was a poetnot becausewhen my fathercalled medog, his voiceragged with contemptand disappointment,I had knownwhere to stashthe memoryso that no onewould get hurt. No. I knew I wasa poet becausewhen ice encasedthe sidewalk trees,they became jeweled bloomsgleaming at melike a song from lost memory. No. It’s not thatpoets just see beauty,following itlike a migratory instinct.

May 6, 2024 | theoffingmag.com | Jess Yuan |Andy Chen |Iris Law

There are landscapes / woven only of suppression.