NaMee

Early Draft Excerpt: The Snowblower part II

Here'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 dad came with me to the airport. I was a grown woman, sort of, and I knew how to drive to an airport, park at an airport, and wait at the gate for my ...

Early draft book excerpt: the snowblower, part I

Hi 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 title won’t make sense now, but if/when I share the other parts of it, it might. Anyways here it is if you’d like to read it. Thank you again for ...

For patreons: early access to preorder YES Booklings and prints

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 supporting me!

“Yes” is a piece about adoption, separation anxiety, dog training, and healing. I meant to release it on Bear’s anniversary (anniBEA...

Early draft excerpt

Early 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 brush painting in the preschool classroom. A Korean woman with raven hair and her raven haired tween are distributing paper. Sit, says the mom raven, ...

BOOKLINGS: Early release for patreons only

Hi 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.

Because I want to donate half the proceeds to families in Gaza, I chose the piece 2024-05-31 01:17:44 +0000 UTC View Post

Let me send you a tiny broadside

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 I’m writing and/or creating the conditions for writing, and that I think of you and try not to feel guilty that I’m not doing more for you.

Works in Progress: Meditations on Grief

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 other things later. Thanks for being here, and thanks as always for supporting me and my work. 

Love, NaMee

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February check-in

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:

• The i n c r e a s i n g  D A Y L I G H T
• Sled dogs!! I even went to a junior race the othe...
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January Check In

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 permissions that I need in order to get the words out. Your support has also helped me organize a system to start sending snippets of my work out for publ...

Word Collecting: Poem by Ayisha Siddiqa

I'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 and bad luck is bested by a promise to the leaves.

To withstand your own end is difficult.

The future frolics about, promised to no one, as ...

Word Collecting: The House of Belonging by David Whyte

Word Collecting: Undrowned by Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Welcome!

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 will also need to DM me the phrase "everywhere is the view" so I'll know you're in the club ;) and can accept your follow request. 

Thanks for...