3. Finding Yourself Through Poetry with May Chong

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Into the Looking Glass: Exploring the Magic Behind Speculative Poetry

Jasmine Arch

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Welcome into the looking glass, the podcast for speculative poets and poetry lovers alike. Join me, Jasmine Arch, on a journey into a world where nothing is what you expect it to be. Together with speculative poets from across the globe, and from all levels of experience, we'll be exploring the magic behind this fascinating genre, and hopefully have a few laughs along the way.

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3. Finding Yourself Through Poetry with May Chong

Into the Looking Glass: Exploring the Magic Behind Speculative Poetry

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4 years ago

3. Finding Yourself Through Poetry with May Chong

Hello Looking Glass Travellers, and welcome to the month of September.

For this month's episode, I got to chat with the lovely May Chong, a fellow Dream Foundry member, and a poet and writer whose work is not consumed but breathed in.

Links mentioned:

Find May on Twitter, where she tweets about her work as it comes out, and is an allround lovely person: https://twitter.com/maysays
She also has a thread listing her publications: https://twitter.com/maysays/status/1218142901781200896?s=21
Strange Horizons, special issue celebrating South East Asian poets: http://strangehorizons.com/issue/30-august-2021/
Things I Love About My Werewolf Girlfriend, published in Fantasy Magazine: https://www.fantasy-magazine.com/new/poetry/things-i-love-about-my-werewolf-girlfriend/
Seed Star Song: https://ghostcitypress.com/2020-summer-series/seed-star-song
Ghost City Press Chapbook series: https://ghostcitypress.com/2020-summer-series
Ito Hiromi: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/hiromi-ito
Pablo Neruda: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Neruda
Usman Awang: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usman_Awang

For full episode notes, including links to more pieces by May, and the prompt of the month, visit https://lookingglasspoets.wordpress.com/2021/09/01/may/.

Until next time,

Later, lookingglass travellers!

Theme music: Wonderland by Alexander Nakarada (serpentsoundstudios.com) Licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License