Tina Em (she/her), born in poverty, raised in a bi-racial family, serves others through her professional life as an engineer and innovator in federal public health workforce, and in her personal life as a volunteer, tutor, and writer. Her first published poem, A Time to Rest, commemorated the bicentennial of Harriet Tubman in The Ekphrastic Review in 2022. Her recent work will appear in the 2023 Maryland Bards Poetry Anthology. Tina was awarded Honorable Mention for flash nonfiction essay in the Bethesda Local Artist Showcase in 2023. Tina co-led the Bethesda Poetry Group sponsored by The Writer’s Center, where she has been an active member since 2019. Tina is currently writing a poetry manuscript and a novel. She lives with her family in Rockville, MD.
ooooooph. Way to turn toward what is most difficult with creativity. An example of how we begin to re-create and re-seethe world out of the destruction. Thank you, Tina Em
The original letter is here: https://www.opm.gov/fork
Thanks for sharing the link! I have it in the alt. text but should have shared it.
Wow, what a brilliant use of erasure to turn the words of the oppressor against him. Thank you!
OMG Brilliant
Brilliant work. Above all, it elegantly captures the spirit of America… to speak truth to power, to use their own words as a calling to the people to stand tall and firm, and to resist the temptation of a quick solution only to learn it is a race to a society with the least amount of humanity and the people no longer have a voice in their own government.
Excellent erasure poem and erasure is so apropos right now. I l also like the way it captures single letters and parts of words to make its words.
So timely!