irene hsu
irene hsu is a writer and researcher based in Brooklyn. They are working on a chapbook about soil, islands, and bones, to sharpen a poetics that can cut open the u.s. war machine. Their writing can be found through the Asian American Writers? Workshop, Wendy?s Subway (forthcoming), Fruit Journal, Mixed Rice Zine, among others. They serve as the Communications Manager at CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities.
I met Kimberly Alidio in the summer of 2021, as a student in their Kundiman workshop, Documentary Poetics: Archive and Counter-Lyric. During our last session, we had been reflecting on Mei-mei Berssenbrugge’s interview in Jacket2, in which she talks about poetry becoming entropic, losing energy, and finding new form. My notes from this conversation include: “You go where the energy is.”
