Welcome Ying Wu, poetry editor
We are delighted to introduce our new editor, Ying Wu, who is joining editor Laura Orem in the Writers Resist world of poetry.
Ying Wu is a poet and cognitive scientist, and host of the Gelato Poetry reading series in San Diego (meetup.com/BrokenAnchorPoetry). She is also a proud member of the editorial team of Kids! San Diego Poetry Annual. More examples of her work can be found online at Poetry and Art at the San Diego Art Institute (poetryandartsd.com), in the Serving House Journal (servinghousejournal.com), and in Writers Resist, as well as in the material world at the San Diego Airport and in print journals, such as the Clackamas Literary Review. Ying currently studies insight and problem solving (insight.ucsd.edu) at UC San Diego and lives with her husband and daughter on a sailboat in the San Diego Bay.
Please join us in welcoming Ying Wu and celebrating her poem—
We
breathe the air
name stars
snap photographs
count minutes, kilometers
degrees, Ohms, inches
Herz, decibels, terrabytes
millivolts, microns, pounds
notice
when
the clouds
are turning pink
or thick
and smooth
like blankets
or high
and thin
in rippled wisps
believe
in heaven
speak in
metaphor
speak in
grammar
talk about
infinity
stretch our
hands wide.