Carlina Duan is a poet originally from Ann Arbor, Michigan. She is currently an MFA Candidate in Poetry at Vanderbilt University. Her debut poetry collection, I Wore My Blackest Hair was published by Little A in Nov. 2017, and other poems can be found or are forthcoming in Black Warrior Review, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, The Margins, and elsewhere.
To the extent that American universality depends upon the possibility of assimilation, there is always also […]