After She Mispronounces My Name for the Fourth Time

Carlina Duan is the author of two poetry collections, I Wore My Blackest Hair (Little A, 2017) and Alien Miss (University of Wisconsin Press, 2021). Her poems have been published in POETRY, Poets.org, Poetry Daily, Narrative Magazine, and The Rumpus among other places. She is currently a PhD candidate in the University of Michigan’s Joint Program in English and Education, and serves as the poetry editor of Michigan Quarterly Review.