https://xiaoxuanhuang.com poetry & poetics Sun, 24 Aug 2025 20:05:06 +0000 https://xiaoxuanhuang.com en https://xiaoxuanhuang.com/Header-Mobile Mon, 28 Jun 2021 03:04:34 +0000 poetry & poetics https://xiaoxuanhuang.com/Header-Mobile Information Contact Index︎︎︎ poetry &amp; poetics https://xiaoxuanhuang.com/Header-Desktop Mon, 28 Jun 2021 03:04:34 +0000 poetry & poetics https://xiaoxuanhuang.com/Header-Desktop about contact index&nbsp; ︎ &nbsp;poetry &amp; poetics <img width="3177" height="2137" width_o="3177" height_o="2137" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/59481706703d1657e0bf57a3df5d27e613bcb3c2cf310e29539f7b662243a77e/site9.png" data-mid="112465899" border="0" data-scale="78" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/59481706703d1657e0bf57a3df5d27e613bcb3c2cf310e29539f7b662243a77e/site9.png" /> <img width="3177" height="2137" width_o="3177" height_o="2137" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a8f19bda42612569b55f22938089fbc345db6a306ef95f4aee160a360acc06a3/site8.png" data-mid="112465921" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a8f19bda42612569b55f22938089fbc345db6a306ef95f4aee160a360acc06a3/site8.png" /> <img width="3177" height="2137" width_o="3177" height_o="2137" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b125f1c7950b9ceae69759dda804c70b164ae1ad73af59031840ef6e45d37542/site6.png" data-mid="112465965" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b125f1c7950b9ceae69759dda804c70b164ae1ad73af59031840ef6e45d37542/site6.png" /> <img width="3177" height="2137" width_o="3177" height_o="2137" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/80e49f8055771a12134a67c9ec8dc86aa69d69023a84a1cba75da0a8c72505bb/site4.png" data-mid="112465966" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/80e49f8055771a12134a67c9ec8dc86aa69d69023a84a1cba75da0a8c72505bb/site4.png" /> <img width="3177" height="2137" width_o="3177" height_o="2137" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7b9ca82f57c96054ab8fd9f7c11aadcf153d66ea6aaadb9ab8beb24232b4bc39/site11.png" data-mid="112465968" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7b9ca82f57c96054ab8fd9f7c11aadcf153d66ea6aaadb9ab8beb24232b4bc39/site11.png" /> <img width="3177" height="2137" width_o="3177" height_o="2137" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4a4bf0580a11f7f3dd01bbdd063559d52330f3b0aabd07d0c02d572890ac7b7b/site7.png" data-mid="112465852" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4a4bf0580a11f7f3dd01bbdd063559d52330f3b0aabd07d0c02d572890ac7b7b/site7.png" /> <img width="3177" height="2137" width_o="3177" height_o="2137" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ac0a6d3f97479f76cd3d4029f0a28a096914501de39540e8abcd30343b203b4c/site2.png" data-mid="112465840" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ac0a6d3f97479f76cd3d4029f0a28a096914501de39540e8abcd30343b203b4c/site2.png" /> joined to a feeling of endless days https://xiaoxuanhuang.com/About Mon, 28 Jun 2021 03:04:34 +0000 poetry & poetics https://xiaoxuanhuang.com/About <img width="3597" height="3597" width_o="3597" height_o="3597" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/14ac7a4e781c2fdfd912bc97938930ab325aa3ad6e5b977879283c5ab8619b2d/XiaoxuanP-05.png" data-mid="232810460" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/14ac7a4e781c2fdfd912bc97938930ab325aa3ad6e5b977879283c5ab8619b2d/XiaoxuanP-05.png" /> Xiaoxuan Huang (she/they) is a writer, performer, scholar, &amp; educator working in hybrid poetics &amp; autotheory.&nbsp; Her full-length publications are all the time: poems &amp; traces (2026)&nbsp;and&nbsp;Love Speech (2019,)&nbsp;both with&nbsp;Metatron Press. all the time has been listed as a finalist for the 2023 Fonograf Editions Essay Collection Contest, &amp; shortlisted for the 2022 John Lent Poetry &amp; Prose Award. She is currently working on a novel written in verse titled Venus in its Fall, which has received grants from Canada Council for the Arts, BC Arts Council, &amp; the Al-Purdy Writer in Residency Program.&nbsp; Her scholarly work in poetics has been presented at conferences such as the SpokenWeb Symposium, Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE) Conference, and the Centre for Expanded Poetics.&nbsp; Xiaoxuan holds an MFA from the University of British Columbia (Okanagan Campus.) She currently teaches English Literature &amp; Creative Writing at Capilano University. She is a 1.5 generation Shanghainese-Canadian who is living on the traditional and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəyəm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Səlílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) people. 晓旋（她/TA）是一位作家、学者和教育家，从事实验批评、文学音频和其他形式的混合诗学。 她的文字在门口徘徊，就像一场漫长的告别，旨在成为它声称需要的东西：“一本永远已经是爱的标志的书。爱的标志。” 她的第一本长篇出版物《Love Speech》（2019 年，Metatron出版社）是一本关于诗歌和自我理论的书。她最近完成了抒情书信手稿《All the Time》，该书入围 2023 年 Fonograf Editions 征文征集大赛决赛。她的最新手稿《Venus in its Fall》已获得加拿大艺术委员会和不列颠哥伦比亚省艺术委员会的资助；这是一部用诗体写成的小说。 她拥有不列颠哥伦比亚大学（奥肯那根校区）的硕士学位。目前，她在卡皮拉诺大学教授英语文学和创意写作。她是第 1.5 代上海裔加拿大人，生活在 xʷməθkʷəyəm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish),和 Səlílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh)人的传统且未割让的领土上。 <img width="3477" height="5210" width_o="3477" height_o="5210" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b022e24b7c7e427f5fed35a20096a634bfdcce6aacd3ec7111715dd5f901eadb/XiaoxuanP-37.png" data-mid="232810495" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b022e24b7c7e427f5fed35a20096a634bfdcce6aacd3ec7111715dd5f901eadb/XiaoxuanP-37.png" /> photos by Tomasz Wagner https://xiaoxuanhuang.com/Contact Sat, 28 Aug 2021 18:18:43 +0000 poetry & poetics https://xiaoxuanhuang.com/Contact Write me –&nbsp; xiao.xuan.huang@outlook.com&nbsp;Instagram – ︎ @xiao_xuan_huang https://xiaoxuanhuang.com/0-Yongfu-Lu Sat, 03 Jul 2021 16:08:59 +0000 poetry & poetics https://xiaoxuanhuang.com/0-Yongfu-Lu <img width="800" height="530" width_o="800" height_o="530" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/842bdc27a5bb6057bf682702ffd419e23659e87fde6e166640cb94b3c598dd92/0-yongfu-1.JPG" data-mid="112958103" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/800/i/842bdc27a5bb6057bf682702ffd419e23659e87fde6e166640cb94b3c598dd92/0-yongfu-1.JPG" /> <img width="800" height="530" width_o="800" height_o="530" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0d0789f3fcc6acc2fea87829dc8e390d1762c94d8d140fc45c74c7f81324f73f/0-yongfu-2.JPG" data-mid="112958104" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/800/i/0d0789f3fcc6acc2fea87829dc8e390d1762c94d8d140fc45c74c7f81324f73f/0-yongfu-2.JPG" /> <img width="800" height="530" width_o="800" height_o="530" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c4a96ce8ff0c6e9354e026bcf760884dd2381c08347366d4a6faaa8516f9c3e7/0-yongfu-3.JPG" data-mid="112958105" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/800/i/c4a96ce8ff0c6e9354e026bcf760884dd2381c08347366d4a6faaa8516f9c3e7/0-yongfu-3.JPG" /> <img width="800" height="530" width_o="800" height_o="530" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/65218d7c1b39c218efae877eb5fbf22c72990ba92d6828290b37afc95341d16c/0-yongfu-5.JPG" data-mid="112958107" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/800/i/65218d7c1b39c218efae877eb5fbf22c72990ba92d6828290b37afc95341d16c/0-yongfu-5.JPG" /> <img width="800" height="530" width_o="800" height_o="530" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8dceb8f35bd82fa193c598ff79d58bc3fa1a163383c37f98871a272655e55255/0-yongfu-4.JPG" data-mid="112958106" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/800/i/8dceb8f35bd82fa193c598ff79d58bc3fa1a163383c37f98871a272655e55255/0-yongfu-4.JPG" /> 0 Yongfu Lu&nbsp;︎︎︎&nbsp;Experimental Theatre music / dance / poetry An evening of live immersive theatre spanning 9 acts in collaboration with Knock Onsite. Programming for 0 Yongfu Lu consisted of live ambient guitar, interperative dance, projections, and voiceover.&nbsp; Two voiceovers read a delayed and remixed selection of fragments from A Lover’s Discourse by Roland Barthes.&nbsp; Performance and afterparty took place in the courtyard of KeepItQuiet (inside YongFu Elite,) Shanghai.&nbsp; <img width="560" height="839" width_o="560" height_o="839" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5143168f22e51e4b6165770ec58779519a2bb8e4ed83b275d170b494914a0e1c/0-yongfu-poster.JPG" data-mid="112958108" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/560/i/5143168f22e51e4b6165770ec58779519a2bb8e4ed83b275d170b494914a0e1c/0-yongfu-poster.JPG" /> https://xiaoxuanhuang.com/Love-Speech Mon, 28 Jun 2021 03:04:34 +0000 poetry & poetics https://xiaoxuanhuang.com/Love-Speech <img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/83e2a6838c9dceea16dfc3160db661dad1074a11a88a82cef6e79d5fabaf148e/Love-Speech-Images-4.jpg" data-mid="112466015" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/83e2a6838c9dceea16dfc3160db661dad1074a11a88a82cef6e79d5fabaf148e/Love-Speech-Images-4.jpg" /> <img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/477c8671abddd885a407ab632db12c15c7715abc0dce852f624b09d006a0cd07/Love-Speech-Images-2.jpg" data-mid="112466014" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/477c8671abddd885a407ab632db12c15c7715abc0dce852f624b09d006a0cd07/Love-Speech-Images-2.jpg" /> <img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b7fc162511b228531059ded7664a59a268ad8942ffc3bda9ed82eb4c10843049/Love-Speech-Images-5.jpg" data-mid="112466016" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b7fc162511b228531059ded7664a59a268ad8942ffc3bda9ed82eb4c10843049/Love-Speech-Images-5.jpg" /> <img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d8bb22c040f3993e7a0db54557d18e38bcc8b8727be696d41a3c7414c898fb8a/Love-Speech-Images-6.jpg" data-mid="112466017" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d8bb22c040f3993e7a0db54557d18e38bcc8b8727be696d41a3c7414c898fb8a/Love-Speech-Images-6.jpg" /> <img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fd9853cde2036e3ee5b9e82bbd62af5ba42e7415eb1261f3bea709dbd77f2cdb/Love-Speech-Images-7.jpg" data-mid="112466018" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fd9853cde2036e3ee5b9e82bbd62af5ba42e7415eb1261f3bea709dbd77f2cdb/Love-Speech-Images-7.jpg" /> <img width="3456" height="4608" width_o="3456" height_o="4608" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/811e57447000ede8449ecbe50ada4aa3fc71adc95bdf0ec1812ae92246919666/Love-Speech-Images-1.jpg" data-mid="112466013" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/811e57447000ede8449ecbe50ada4aa3fc71adc95bdf0ec1812ae92246919666/Love-Speech-Images-1.jpg" /> LOVE SPEECH ︎︎︎&nbsp;Book poetry/auto-theory Published by Metatron Press Perfect bound84 PagesISBN | &nbsp;978-1-988355-17-7Watch the book trailer hereOrder here Love Speech is an auto-theoretical book that reads both like poetry and an epistle; a textile of literary mothers shot through with cultural-political feelings, threads of conversation, and moments from queer life. Love Speech takes it titles from an ethics of addressability that Judith Butler originally raises to examine what makes language such as hate speech hurtful. “Our very being exposes us to the address of another,” she says (via Claudia Rankine’s account in Citizen: An American Lyric.) Butler considers the inverse in several conversations, and Huang, too, is more devoted to theorizing and enacting love speech further. Launched in stereo with a book tour summer 2019:Aug. 8: Toronto, ON @ Type BooksAug 11: Kingston, ON @ Novel IdeaAug 12: Montreal, QC @ La SottereneaNew York City, NY @ Baby Castles <img width="1192" height="888" width_o="1192" height_o="888" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/177ffa557e5503f199deca66f352072c6c0d6181041b29cf7b593e221bb8c526/self-baby-castles.png" data-mid="112467281" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/177ffa557e5503f199deca66f352072c6c0d6181041b29cf7b593e221bb8c526/self-baby-castles.png" /> “Tender and strong, Love Speech weaves together citations of queer poetry and theory with terse revelations of how contemporary conditions of work impact our experience of love. Huang posits possibilities for joy and for survival not in a distant utopia, but locating them somewhere closer to here and now.”– KAITLIN CHAN, founder of Queer Reads Library THE LINK | Book Review: Love Speech by Xiaoxuan / Sherry Huang | “It’s like reading the diary of your smartest friend.”THE CASCADE | Book Review | “Love Speech is an intimate and philosophical reflection on the manifestation of love in the life of a queer immigrant-settler. Huang carefully balances poetry and academia in this auto-theoretical piece that, admittedly, can go over the heads of readers but nonetheless has earned its place amongst academic circles focused on gender studies and philosophy.” https://xiaoxuanhuang.com/all-the-time Sun, 24 Aug 2025 20:05:06 +0000 poetry & poetics https://xiaoxuanhuang.com/all-the-time all the time: poetry &amp; traces ︎︎︎Full-Length Book Published by Metatron Press April 2026Discussion Guide Available Here <img width="1500" height="2100" width_o="1500" height_o="2100" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/497d0ce43edacc8991ba3cc0f6437c6d8bfc506103bbfee57733e65fac27f3fb/all-the-time-cover-front.png" data-mid="248450295" border="0" data-scale="49" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/497d0ce43edacc8991ba3cc0f6437c6d8bfc506103bbfee57733e65fac27f3fb/all-the-time-cover-front.png" /><img width="1500" height="2100" width_o="1500" height_o="2100" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c8385e7b53b4d94e4a93e3f17e785427a2ae10e5ec4949b8a165fc6ab1afe1d1/all-the-time-cover-back-.png" data-mid="248450415" border="0" data-scale="49" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c8385e7b53b4d94e4a93e3f17e785427a2ae10e5ec4949b8a165fc6ab1afe1d1/all-the-time-cover-back-.png" /> all the time: poetry &amp; traces&nbsp;is a book-length poetry manuscript. Formally, it consists of lyric poems, love letters, &amp; aphoristic fragments. all the time visits various moments that are rich with intimacy for the speaker – a lyric “I.” Rather than building a chronological narrative, the fragments &amp; letters are conceptually connected through references to queer &amp; critical theory, literature, &amp; pop culture. Motifs of light, time, &amp; touch appear throughout. Drama occurs on the level of language as a way of thinking, &amp; as a feeling. Following Jacques Derrida’s notion of différance, the question that gets implied throughout all the time is – if language never reaches its intended destination, should I speak, &amp; if so, how? all the time uses various units of spacing as its main punctuation mark. This spacing is the speaker’s own reticence. It is also the space left behind by other, absent speakers, &amp; thus it’s the affective space of listening that has impressed itself upon the page. Spacing aesthetically temporalizes language by holding or holding off what is being said. In doing so, it calls up a sense of time scored not by clocks, but by body &amp; breath. The manuscript remains ontologically ambiguous, superpositioning the literal &amp; metaphorical, the real &amp; imagined, speaking, &amp; aporia, &amp; auto-theory &amp; poetry. Like a body remembering everything about desire, bliss, grief, loneliness, empathy, &amp; familiarity, all the time turns toward these intensities again &amp; again. Paradox and contradiction are such dramatic words when the truth of time is an infinite plane of total coexistence. Huang shows us how the voice of the ordinary – which, put simplest, is Love – is filled with quantum whispers. all the time is a cascading fantasia of the cut together-apart. – Fan Wu, poet &amp; performer “all my favourite poems dissolve / into essay,” writes Huang, embedding a thesis into the fabric of this intelligent and immersive long poem. Here the lyrical merges with the theoretical, yes, but also with the tentative, the repetitive, the durational continuity synonymous with existence. When the poet enacts full-body listening, everything holds the potential of poetry, even the gaps, especially the gaps. [The gaps visually perforate the page in parenthetical embrace and Huang offers a love poem to time.] – Klara du Plessis, author of Post-Mortem of the Event The first thing my partner ever typed to me over the internet was “every letter is a love letter”—the same Chris Kraus quote that Xiaoxuan invokes here (among a kaleidoscope of other references). So many emails we sent in the following years through conflicts and transformation and long-distance longing, so many words rocketed into the ether that at their heart just said to one another, as Xiaoxuan writes, “all I want to hear is that you’re still there” all the time writes a love letter of its own to these pieces of queer yearning by making an intimate language of touch, quietness, and light—the vocality of the three emerging from what reverberates within “the silence they share.” And as the book goes on, this shared silence continues to multiply in some zero-sum quotient where “silence is divided by silence”. Empty space not only surrounds the lines, but divides them—absence and distance held within the work's recurring empty brackets much like “the way we hold our hands with nothing in them.” In the speakers’ punctuated longing, beckoning, missing and caress of the anonymous addressee, we find the endless impossibility of fully accessing one another through language. The “unsendable letter” to the beloved on the other end of the line, the screen, the page… But against the obstructions of language, Xiaoxuan leads us to the generative force of distance—all the time stands as heartening testament that these gaps, aporia, and very structures restricting us are equally “what made everything possible in the first place.” When everything for which we pine is absent, here is a book that helps us take solace in the space between.”– Rachika Nayar, ambient electronic composer <img width="1650" height="2213" width_o="1650" height_o="2213" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/af98e9ff2e952bbf936041af507ddeee4c3742ee16136c70312c4a7b7b9cc63a/all-the-time-review-issue446_discorder_Web.png" data-mid="248791194" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/af98e9ff2e952bbf936041af507ddeee4c3742ee16136c70312c4a7b7b9cc63a/all-the-time-review-issue446_discorder_Web.png" /> https://xiaoxuanhuang.com/Venus-in-its-Fall-excerpt-1 Sun, 24 Aug 2025 19:27:40 +0000 poetry & poetics https://xiaoxuanhuang.com/Venus-in-its-Fall-excerpt-1 VENUS IN ITS FALL [EXCERPT 1]︎︎︎&nbsp; Video, Ambient Guitar, Voice&nbsp; Text excerpt taken from Venus in its Fall, an autofiction novel in verse (work-in-progress.)Screened at absent &amp; sentimental things touch, an art happening at Many Moons Studio in June 2025 in Kingston, Ontario. &nbsp; <img width="2750" height="1632" width_o="2750" height_o="1632" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3d32127ae33702f751734ef8b4ce31e1511572f989b8c37941e21b63c0910ead/Screenshot-2025-08-24-at-12.47.27PM.png" data-mid="237409380" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3d32127ae33702f751734ef8b4ce31e1511572f989b8c37941e21b63c0910ead/Screenshot-2025-08-24-at-12.47.27PM.png" /> Venus in its Fall is a full-length lyric novel that spans a decade across three major cities in the protagonist’s life: Kingston, Ontario; Kelowna, BC; and Shanghai, China. The protagonist, Xiao, is an itinerant 1.5 generation Chinese-Canadian who immigrated to Ontario with her parents from Shanghai when she was five. Home as a theme is complicated by a network of (mostly queer, some intergenerational) relationalities that continue to touch the protagonist through space and time.&nbsp;Its story structure unfolds non-linearly, jumping between the three cities, and thus also crossing timelines and storylines. The narrator’s thematic interjections give the distinct storylines a larger philosophical framework; this framework will be the backdrop against which separate storylines attach and form coherence. <img width="2751" height="1647" width_o="2751" height_o="1647" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/61a0d9b13a4d3ffdd652c314e0b3dd29a8e152e7cd31401b091f77b0f7f36f1d/Screenshot-2025-08-24-at-12.48.18PM.png" data-mid="237409391" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/61a0d9b13a4d3ffdd652c314e0b3dd29a8e152e7cd31401b091f77b0f7f36f1d/Screenshot-2025-08-24-at-12.48.18PM.png" /> https://xiaoxuanhuang.com/the-way-we-hold-our-hands-with-nothing-in-them Wed, 09 Aug 2023 20:46:59 +0000 poetry & poetics https://xiaoxuanhuang.com/the-way-we-hold-our-hands-with-nothing-in-them THE WAY WE HOLD OUR HANDS [WITH NOTHING IN THEM]︎︎︎&nbsp; Video, Ambient Guitar, Voice&nbsp; Text excerpt taken from All the Time, a series of lyric epistles. Exhibited during the 2023 SpokenWeb Symposium at the University of Alberta. &nbsp; <img width="2464" height="1378" width_o="2464" height_o="1378" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4e5e41a020eae9b5f8f119684737c0bd7988d8a8851f18e18b386550e20ccbbc/Screen-Shot-2023-08-09-at-1.59.31-PM.png" data-mid="187540586" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4e5e41a020eae9b5f8f119684737c0bd7988d8a8851f18e18b386550e20ccbbc/Screen-Shot-2023-08-09-at-1.59.31-PM.png" /> the way we hold our hands with nothing in them is an ambient poetry collage mixing voice, video, and ambient guitar. the poems being read are excerpts from a longer work titled all the time. the text that appears on screen act as incomplete subtitles for the poems – already fragmented and laconic – being read.line breaks, the poet’s breath, and the asynchronous [dis]appearance of the text on screen cut this selection of poems apart while the long reverberations of ambient tones and the single slow continuous shot of the moon hold them together.<img width="2428" height="1266" width_o="2428" height_o="1266" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/051b8f045f156f950474868d77c019299bf52e21619d729c90da0010a4e832ce/Screen-Shot-2023-08-09-at-1.59.08-PM.png" data-mid="187540583" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/051b8f045f156f950474868d77c019299bf52e21619d729c90da0010a4e832ce/Screen-Shot-2023-08-09-at-1.59.08-PM.png" /> the way we hold our hands… uses the reverberant characteristics of both poetry and ambient music to find what Jan Zwicky calls a certain “flex” in language. at the heart of this mix is an inquiry into language’s durational potential – how do we feel words affect us and last differently in our bodies when they reverberate and delay as a time-based art?<img width="2380" height="1442" width_o="2380" height_o="1442" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/94ac4502bda6b5ff7bd833f9a63ada0461fc4bf86618f88bddcc5ae41e96cf65/Screen-Shot-2023-08-09-at-1.59.18-PM.png" data-mid="187540585" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/94ac4502bda6b5ff7bd833f9a63ada0461fc4bf86618f88bddcc5ae41e96cf65/Screen-Shot-2023-08-09-at-1.59.18-PM.png" /><img width="2460" height="1422" width_o="2460" height_o="1422" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/88a8f17ad8e8f18112975be5fd1ca2d7e27cf5763ff817ff60c44769c68a3230/Screen-Shot-2023-08-09-at-1.59.44-PM.png" data-mid="187540588" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/88a8f17ad8e8f18112975be5fd1ca2d7e27cf5763ff817ff60c44769c68a3230/Screen-Shot-2023-08-09-at-1.59.44-PM.png" /><img width="2202" height="1302" width_o="2202" height_o="1302" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e57f39e46fc9abeb6098c8abc69f22b86eb526d6d242a2ebcda08a4708e6e3cc/Screen-Shot-2023-08-09-at-1.59.58-PM.png" data-mid="187540589" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e57f39e46fc9abeb6098c8abc69f22b86eb526d6d242a2ebcda08a4708e6e3cc/Screen-Shot-2023-08-09-at-1.59.58-PM.png" /> https://xiaoxuanhuang.com/Body-of-Text Thu, 16 Feb 2023 21:58:21 +0000 poetry & poetics https://xiaoxuanhuang.com/Body-of-Text BODY OF TEXT ︎︎︎&nbsp;Radio Show Streamed live every second Sunday of each month&nbsp; Hosted on MoonGlowRadioStream archives here&nbsp; body of textwas a radio show combining music&amp; original poetry that aired&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;every second Sunday @ noon [PST] on moonglowradio.net <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/695ac0d82df2b9ae0acfb59319a803f83c95a2bdb4051dde7a6bcd3a74133491/xiao.png" data-mid="168710434" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/695ac0d82df2b9ae0acfb59319a803f83c95a2bdb4051dde7a6bcd3a74133491/xiao.png" />