JPEE student Carlina Duan publishes poetry anthology Alien Miss
Carlina Duan, second year student in the Joint Program in English and Education, announced the publication of a book of poetry, Alien Miss. In 2020, Duan was named a runner-up in the Wisconsin Poetry Prize Competition and her collection of poetry was selected for publication by Natasha Tretheway, nineteenth U.S. Poet Laureate, and editors Ron Wallace and Sean Bishop.
Alien Miss is Duan’s second published collection, following I Wore My Blackest Hair. The University of Wisconsin Press says: “In her stunning second collection, Carlina Duan illuminates unabashed odes to lineage, small and sacred moments of survival, and the demand to be fully seen ‘spangling with light.’ Tracing familial lore and love, Duan reflects on the experience of growing up as a diasporic, bilingual daughter of immigrants, exploring the fraught complexities of identity, belonging, and linguistic reclamation. Alien Miss brings forth beautifully powerful voices: immigrants facing the Chinese Exclusion Act, the first Chinese American woman to vote, and matriarchal ancestors. The poems in this ambitious collection are immersed in the knotted blood of sisterhood, both celebrating and challenging conceptions of inheritance and homeland.”
The book is available from the University of Wisconsin Press website or from Literati and other local bookstores.
Duan has a virtual reading scheduled for Friday, March 19 at 7 p.m. with Literati Bookstore. Duan will be joined by U-M MFA alum Ambalila Hemsell. Join here.