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