You are all consuming emotions in their rawest form and are releasing them back into the space in which you live you may not leave as you began but know that this will be a positive thing. Whether you take a few minutes or an hour, know that wherever you are, there are others doing the same. Today, I hope that you find time to write and read poetry. “Remembrance” calls directly to the past in its reminiscence of Angelou but also realizes what rising from the ashes looks like in the modern day: how rising is a unifying act, born from an acknowledgment of those who have come before. With the spike in anti-Asian violence within the United States-which has a long history of oppression of black, indigenous and people of color-I wanted to create a piece rooted in revolution. In celebration of World Poetry Day, I wrote the poem “Remembrance” as a continuation of and response to “Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou. From reconciling the intersection of my Indian-American and woman identities to unraveling the complexities between ancestral tradition and evolution, my poems imagine existence in myriad forms. I write poems in order to conceptualize the maelstrom of events that often occur simultaneously. I find the idea beautiful: the fact that we can feel together and dream together, even as we remain physically apart, never ceases to inspire me. Poetry is a means to traverse oceans and experiences we are transported into another life when reading poems.
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