Cynthia Dewi Oka is poet and the author of Salvage (Northwestern University Press, 2017) and Nomad of Salt and Hard Water (Thread Makes Blanket, 2016). A two-time Pushcart Prize Nominee and recipient of a 2016 Leeway Foundation Art and Change Grant, she has served as a poetry mentor for the Blueshift Journal‘s Speakeasy Project and is pursuing her MFA in Poetry at Warren Wilson College. Originally from Indonesia, she works as a community organizer with the New Sanctuary Movement of Philadelphia.
Resistance, Change, Survival
Elegy with a White Shirt / On “Elegy with a White Shirt”
Elegy with a White Shirt The way we waited for the year to end made me think of walking backward under a mandrake sky, cloth rough and hot with my […]