i think that jenny zhang is the first poet i read that made me go "ohhhhhhhh - i get it now." about poetry; i had always recognized the beauty of the language without understanding the stakes and naked human expression that language serves to meaningfully represent through it's beauty. some of my favorite works from her:
Poem: “Follow Him” By Jenny Zhang (buzzfeednews.com)
under the chiming bell by Jenny Zhang - Poems | Academy of American Poets
maybe it's because i read night sky with exit wounds very shortly after i got introduced to zhang's work but i always felt a sort of similarity between them, where vuong was concerned with reconciling the world they lived in and harmed them, zhang felt more concerned with keeping the score.
we got a movie discord we got a zine discord when's the poetry discord dropping...
