Cathy Park Hong

  • Words Into Action

    Adrienne Rich dated all her poems because she wanted each one to "speak for that moment." Through that simple gesture, she was showing us that her poetry was of its time and not outside it. After Trump was elected president, I began to do the same.

    Reality was pulled from under my feet, and I needed to document and date everything to make sense of it. I read how climate scientists are frantically copying data into independent servers because they fear that years of research will vanish under Trump's administration. In my own small way, to counteract the hypertrophy of false information, I've