The poem “Joan our Icon” is reprinted with kind permission from About Now by Richard Reeve (Maungatua Press, $25), named by poetry czar Nick Ascroft in ReadingRoom in December as the best collection ...

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Staceyann Chin reflects on writing, identity, performance, activism, and the complexities of family, history, and resistance.

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The singer-songwriter’s sparest songs tend to be not only the most emotionally unsparing, but points of unexpected climax.