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Jenny Xie

AAP/Walt Whitman Fellow ( 2018 ) Writing USA

To be a Fellow at Civitella Ranieri is to be reminded that while the forces of creativity can be difficult to court, there are rare environments where receptivity to these forces widens and where one is afforded the inner latitude to recognize and invite them in. I am beyond grateful for the rhythms my life and writing practice took on here, for the slow walks across the dry Umbrian hillside, the generous stretches of time reading in the shade of olive and cypress trees, and for the privilege of stillness and routine that brought lines and poems to my door, when I was present to receive them. Civitella has been a haven and a gift, in more ways than I can know or put to language.

ORIGIN STORY

I was profligate like a floodlight to the sun.

Hoarded saccharine and toothmarks,

wanted only the thickest rhymes, two of each.

Full I was of promises I never intended to keep:

puckered laughter, lines to feast.

I let everyone who entered my life enter through me.

Demanded nonsense love and bodies that would ring.

Not to mention higher kilowatts

of creeping joy, more red in everything—

Origin Story

https://civitella.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ZOOM0005.mp3

jennymxie.com

NEWS

09/22/2022: “Jenny Xie Explores the Subversive Power of the Concealed and the Overlooked” in the New York Times

05/11/2022: Civitella Celebrates AAPI Heritage Month

04/08/2021: Asian American Writers’ Workshop Solidarity Reading

03/24/2021: Bilingual Poetry Reading with Jenny Xie

01/28/2021: Poetry Reading Tonight Featuring Jay Deshpande, Jenny Xie, and Claire Wahmanholm

04/15/2020: Civitellians in Ploughshares

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