The moon is heavy. You discuss your relationship with the moon.

A poem about loss.

I spent my nineteenth birthday at my grandparents’.

On Tuesday, October 17th, Dr. Craig Santos Perez, a professor of English at the University of Hawai’i, Manoa and prolific poet and essayist, held a poetry reading in UCLA’s Kaplan Hall.

A satirical poem detailing the ways a specific APIDA culture is interpreted amongst different perspectives.

0. THE LOVERS. There was once a bard and a king, a lover of words and a lover of swords, that came to meet one another in the kingdom they both ruled. They were kind sovereigns, adored by their acolytes and their subjects, and they knew the other…