Walt Whitman prizewinner Jenny Xie (CRF 2018) gives her advice for feeling at home in the unfamiliar to PBS news hour.
“It is in our quiet observations,” Xie said, “that we can find ourselves when we’re on the move. Like any avid traveler could attest, finding a sensation of home among the unfamiliar is an enduring challenge, and repeatedly explored in ‘Eye Level,’ ” Jenny’s first poetry collection.
“Any place,” according to Xie, “can feel like home as long as you can shed the mental barriers that keep you from connecting to the experiences around you.”
Jenny Xie is the author of EYE LEVEL (Graywolf Press, 2018), finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry, and recipient of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets and the Holmes National Poetry Prize from Princeton University. Her chapbook, NOWHERE TO ARRIVE (Northwestern University Press, 2017) received the Drinking Gourd Prize. Her work has appeared in Poetry, New York Times Magazine, New Republic, and Tin House, among other publications, and she has been supported by fellowships and grants from Kundiman, Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and Poets & Writers. She is on faculty at New York University and lives in New York.
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