The “Low” Poetics of Barbara Jane Reyes: A Review of Letters to a Young Brown Girl

by Paul T. CorriganTampa Review Poetry Editor What is it like to be a young brown girl, especially a Filipina immigrant, in the United States? Well, there are pitfalls, attests Barbara Jane Reyes in her latest book of poems, Letters to a Young Brown Girl (BOA 2020), which begins, “If you want to know what we are … [Read more…]