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Articles by Jenny Qi
A Conversation with Alan Chazaro
Alan Chazaro is the author of These Spaceships Weren’t Built For Us (Tia Chucha Press, 2026), Notes from the Eastern Span of the Bay Bridge (Ghost City Press, 2021), Piñata Theory (Black Lawrence Press, 2020), and This Is Not a Frank Ocean Cover Album (Black Lawrence Press, 2019). He is a graduate of June Jordan’s Poetry for the People program at UC Berkeley and was selected as a Lawrence Ferlinghetti Poetry Fellow at the University of San Francisco.
Picking Up Bones
“Because there were no flowers, I began picking up bones.”—Georgia O’Keeffe When I was ten, my parents bought their first house in a “nicer” neighborhood in Las Vegas, one street away from the town of Henderson’s better schools and higher property values. My parents’ brand-new house was built after they selected their favorite of the model homes, and it was roughly interchangeable with every other brand-new tan stucco house in the development.
Sunday Morning in Woh Hei Yuen 和 喜 园
Beneath the stone arch, graying women dance in unison—they sway their hips, step right, flutter arms outward like butterfly wings, hands cupped skyward as if to receive a benediction. The woman in the center—the tall one—wears a red sweater, white cropped pants, butter yellow visor tied with a ribbon over short permed curls. Above her, carved in stone: 和喜园—peace joy garden. For a moment, I am winded. Back turned, she looks— they look—like an idea I once had of my mother.
Letters to America by Sarah Fawn Montgomery
In America, I Can’t Talk to a Real Human at My Health Insurance Company But I am Eligible to Win a Free Medical Alert Device Pleading to a machine is the new way to save a life. What is living if not failing to connect, healing a hope hurtled across the line like a fishing lure? I am an open mouth waiting for someone to surface, snatch me heaving and heavy with hurt from these depths.
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Interview with Jenny Qi and Mariya Zilberman
Jenny Qi: We’ve been friends for a looong time, since stumbling upon the same community workshop in San Francisco when I was in science grad school at UCSF and you were working in journalism and communications. I always admired the devastating elegance of your poems and was thrilled when you won the Ploughshares Emerging Writer’s Contest. Beyond that, I’ve admired your dedication to and patience with the writing life. Can you tell us about what drives your work and how you’ve navigated that life?
Penelope Looks Back You know, I thought you were a fool, and if I were lovely and clever, I wouldn’t wait, idle behind shrouds while my probably dead, definitely faithless, irresponsible egomaniacal selfish manchild husband goads vengeful gods and gawks at sirens.
How Play-Doh Helped Save Me From My Despair in Grad School
Letter of Recommendation On starting over and reshaping one’s path. Credit...Illustration by Sophi Miyoko Gullbrants Dec. 28, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET As a kid, I wanted to be a palace artisan, painting elaborate scenes on clay pots, soldering gold filigree onto porcelain vases, sculpting delicate figurines. The specific medium was not that important to me as long as I was able to make things — I liked it all. I say “as a kid” as if I don’t still imagine my artisan life during periods of burnout.
INTERVIEW : Jenny Qi by Lauren C. Johnson — THE RACKET
Jenny Qi’s poetry was born from necessity. After she lost her mother to cancer when she was 19, Qi’s grief took the shape of the 500 paper cranes she folded, and the 100 poems she wrote while completing her Ph.D. in Biomedical Science from UCSF. The poems in Qi’s debut collection, Focal Point from Steel Toe Books, contain Qi’s personal grief as well as reflections on collective grief in the face of bigotry, racism, and xenophobia.
How to Write an Obituary For Your Mother
I did not know how to write an obituary when my mother died. I was all of nineteen, and the only deaths I’d reckoned with up to that point were those of her parents—whom I’d met only once as an infant—and those of my pet guinea pigs. But my father tasked me with writing my mother’s obituary because I was born and raised in America, and what were my English skills for if not to be my parents’ voice when they needed it. Besides, now that she was gone, it was time for me to be a proper adult.
Postcards From the Living
A poem for Sunday I light incense on the stovetop, trail cinders through an empty house. I’ve decided to believe in the power of ashes: Here I am, buying fruit, mending torn shirts, brushing teeth in cramped bathrooms, living someplace new. Wish you were here. I sprinkle sandalwood dust on the ribbon from my first 5K, the token from my first solo trip— milestones so small and unremarkable, only you could understand and be proud.
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My mother wanted flowers, fragrant and lovely. So she flooded young seeds until they boiled in midday heat, and when they didn’t bloom, she thought she could will blossoms with sullen silence. My father wanted fruit trees, hardy and useful. So he baked saplings in the sun until they brittled into sand, and when they didn’t ripen, he thought he could shout them into submission. At night, I snuck into the garden and sang my pleas into the leaves.
Parallel Signaling through IRE1α and PERK Regulates Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumor Growth and Survival
Translational Science Paul C. Moore, Jenny Y. Qi, Maike Thamsen, Rajarshi Ghosh, Justin Peng, Micah J. Gliedt, Rosa Meza-Acevedo, Rachel E. Warren, Annie Hiniker, Grace E. Kim, Dustin J. Maly, Bradley J. Backes, Feroz R. Papa and Scott A. Oakes DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-19-1116 Published December 2019 This article requires a subscription to view the full text. You may purchase access to this article or login to access your subscription using the links below.
Parallel signaling through IRE1α and PERK regulates pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor growth and survival
Research Article Paul C Moore, Jenny Y Qi, Maike Thamsen, Rajarshi Ghosh, Justin Peng, Micah J Gliedt, Rosa Meza-Acevedo, Rachel E Warren, Annie Hiniker, Grace E. Kim, Dustin J Maly, Bradley J Backes, Feroz R Papa and Scott A Oakes DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-19-1116 Abstract Master regulators of the unfolded protein response (UPR) IRE1alpha and PERK promote adaptation or apoptosis depending on the level of endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress.
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Check out our new Modern Love podcast. For the last year, I haven’t been able to walk into a bookstore without seeing the blue-fading-to-sand cover of Marie Kondo’s best-selling book, “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up.” Its publication coincided with my decision to start preparing for a new life somewhere, anywhere that was not in San Francisco.
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