Thanks for being here. I'm writing a lot these days! Here's another little excerpt from the book in progress, freshly written this week. About Easter! Is the ending clear? I am unsure about it.
Thanks for reading! xo namee
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Every mom lies to their kids in varying degrees. We tell them their scribbles are ...
2025-05-01 04:02:46 +0000 UTC View PostHere's a draft for a chapter I wrote last week, for patreons' eyes only.
I don't know if I should keep the dialogue at the beginning or not, what do you think? Does it work, is it interesting/distracting?
I am finally learning the lesson to attach it as a pdf to preserve my freakishly careful formatting that patreon always f...
2025-03-27 22:59:48 +0000 UTC View PostHere's another little excerpt! Thanks for following along.
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Gutted, I call Dave. Dave is a fellow adoptee who always texts back and looks at me like I’m his favorite color and does things like return to the car for an umbrella. Dave will know what to do. Dave knows what to do. He picks me up.
We waste no time getting...
I want to get better at sharing some draft / works in progress here on Patreon! This is a poem I've been tinkering with, and shows up in my book manuscript. I wrote it during a workshop for adoptees with my friend Lee Herrick (another adoptee poet! and California's poet lau...
2025-02-18 01:35:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy Lunar New Year! I'm in production mode and will be releasing another handmade bookling (YEAR OF THE SNAKE) on Thursday, February 14th, at Noon AKST. There will also be hand-painted 8x10 prints featuring two lines from the larger piece.
The first three booklings each sold out within hours, so I love this lil Patreon perk...
2025-02-09 02:58:49 +0000 UTC View PostHi friends! I'm fresh off my first residency at Randolph where I'm working on getting my MFA! Lots of new ideas swirling, and I can't wait to get writing. Thank you for being here, because Patreon funds are supporting my MFA journey!! I hope to do right by you!
In other news, the poetry editor from The Offing reached out recently about pub...
2025-01-16 23:51:24 +0000 UTC View PostI’m in assembly mode and will be releasing my third handmade bookling DEEP PERSISTENT SLAB on Monday, December 16th at Noon AKST.
✨ But PATREONS can pre-order starting NOW! Here is a super fancy link. ✨...
2024-12-10 23:08:17 +0000 UTC View PostHere's part 3 of 3 for this section I worked on at Hedgebrook. Thanks for reading along!
Early Draft Excerpt: The Snowblower part III
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You called Gema? Fernando calls me.
&...
2024-11-12 18:29:56 +0000 UTC View PostHere's a second part of some of the work I wrote while at Hedgebrook this month!
Do you want to see more excerpts? Y/N
Thank you again for supporting me and my work! Love, Na Mee
The Snowblower, excerpt part 2
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In retrospect, I don’t know why my ...
2024-10-31 04:47:38 +0000 UTC View PostHi hi! I’m writing to you from beautiful Hedgebrook, where I’ve spent the last few weeks working on my memoir project!
I’ve written a lot (yay!) and thought I’d give patreons a little peek inside the draft. Here’s an excerpt from a section called the snowblower. That ...
2024-10-21 21:25:06 +0000 UTC View Post
I’m in assembly mode and will be releasing my second handmade bookling “Yes” + hand-pressed lino prints on Tuesday sept 10 at 10am AKST!
These photos are behind-the-scenes process shots. Finals to come on Tuesday!
✨PATREONS can pre-order starting NOW: send me a DM and I’ll send you ordering details!✨ thanks for supportin...
2024-09-05 20:56:32 +0000 UTC View PostEarly draft! Felt like sharing a peek into the process. I’m steadily working on my book and here’s a lil thing that appears early on, about a one day event the Korean community put on for adoptees to teach us how to, uh, be Korean and stuff. In this story, I’m 21 years old.
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At 1 pm there is ...
2024-08-02 03:21:57 +0000 UTC View PostHi friends,
So excited to show you this! I’ve had this idea to do a handmade art book series and tomorrow I’m releasing the first one!! I’m calling them Booklings, a la ducklings or darlings, because they’re like sweet little book babies. They will each feature one poem/piece and be printed and made by hand in my studio.
Beca...
2024-05-31 01:17:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Update: all broadsides have been claimed!! Thanks for supporting me here, patreon! I’m sorry I don’t have enough for everyone, but that just means I will have to find another thing to send out another time. Stay tuned! Hugs, namee
Hi patreon friends, thanks for supporting me even when I go quiet on this platform. I promise ...
2024-03-04 01:52:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi friends,
Thought I'd share some of the meditations on grief I've been writing throughout May to fellow Kundiman fellows (as part of their 2023 postcard project with the Poetry Coalition). These are all drafts that might get turned into...
2023-04-01 18:28:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Thank you for being here!
This past month has been about reading and editing, mostly. I'm gobbling up books by the handfuls lately, wanting to feel immersed in words and writing and story. Have you read any good books lately?
Some places I'm finding poetry lately:
Hi friends!!
Just a quick note to offer my continued gratitude for you being here and supporting my writing. I've written a lot since starting this patreon, most of which does not get shared publicly but has joyfully made its way out of my body and onto a page. And, perhaps more importantly, I've been finding the spaces and places and perm...
2023-01-16 22:51:47 +0000 UTC View PostI'm sorry I've been slow about posting things here! Here is a recent poem that wow'd me.
ON ANOTHER PANEL ABOUT CLIMATE, THEY ASK ME TO SELL THE FUTURE AND ALL I’VE GOT IS A LOVE POEM
by Ayisha Siddiqa
What if the future is soft and revolution is so kind that there is no end to us in sight.
Whole cities breathe an...
2022-12-31 02:05:02 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm new at all this so thanks for being here with me as a I do my best <3
Here's a video to introduce some of the content you'll see on this page - snippets from my word collection! If you'd also like to see it in your IG feed, feel free to follow me at @namee_loves_words. This is is an IG account that is only for my patrons, so you wil...
2022-05-26 17:54:28 +0000 UTC View Post
