Carlina Duan

CARLINA DUAN is the author of I Wore My Blackest Hair (Little A, 2017). Her poems have appeared in Black Warrior Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Narrative Magazine, The Margins, and elsewhere. She received her MFA in Poetry from Vanderbilt University and is currently a PhD candidate in English and Education at the University of Michigan.

Chinese calligraphy carved into a painted wooden wall

Angel Island

Carlina Duan

at the Angel Island Immigration Station our bodies levitated in minutes, ticking, ticking, alive, alive; forgo mercy and forgo hunger; slurp the pig slop; our muscles in 1911, 1912, we turned ghost and ghost again

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By Carlina Duan