https://padlet.com/ashleyestrada461/sa4dkufhcap4 Made with serendipity en-us 2018-02-08 17:29:12 UTC 2025-11-28 10:31:32 UTC hello@padlet.com ashleyestrada461 https://padlet.com/ashleyestrada461/sa4dkufhcap4/wish/229713978 May Lee-Yang (HAUNTIE) was born in Ban Vinai, a refugee camp in Thailand following the Secret War in Laos. She moved to Saint Paul Minnesota and has been involved with Intermedia Arts since 2008. May Lee-Yang is a playwright, poet, prose writer, and performance artist

]]> 2018-02-08 17:45:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ashleyestrada461/sa4dkufhcap4/wish/229713978 ashleyestrada461 https://padlet.com/ashleyestrada461/sa4dkufhcap4/wish/229714714 Observations of the people and happenings around her and conversations she's had.]]> 2018-02-08 17:46:26 UTC https://padlet.com/ashleyestrada461/sa4dkufhcap4/wish/229714714 ashleyestrada461 https://padlet.com/ashleyestrada461/sa4dkufhcap4/wish/229715085 Writing in a "refugee mentality" in most of her poems and plays as well as the book she published, though she's slowly pulling away from that. I was drawn to this because of the way she wrote it and the words she chose to give her poem a powerful voice.]]> 2018-02-08 17:47:01 UTC https://padlet.com/ashleyestrada461/sa4dkufhcap4/wish/229715085 ashleyestrada461 https://padlet.com/ashleyestrada461/sa4dkufhcap4/wish/229715290 To Whitey & the Cracker Jack (book),  Confessions of a Lazy Hmong Woman (play), and her poems written under the persona of "HAUNTIE"]]> 2018-02-08 17:47:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ashleyestrada461/sa4dkufhcap4/wish/229715290 ashleyestrada461 https://padlet.com/ashleyestrada461/sa4dkufhcap4/wish/229715418 Her poems could be read with the same flow of a story, but something to take note of is that she has a repeating word or words in her poems and she mostly writes about her past.]]> 2018-02-08 17:47:33 UTC https://padlet.com/ashleyestrada461/sa4dkufhcap4/wish/229715418 ashleyestrada461 https://padlet.com/ashleyestrada461/sa4dkufhcap4/wish/229715612 i am straddling memory and the present tension
muscles turning into stone from the weight of time
how do you understand me in all of your knowing?
 
i am standing at crossroads
and there are many of them, one on top of the other
and they are not flat
and i could not just lie on the ground to rest and breathe
 
but i would like to
 
to survive i must stand and hold them all together
with my feet pinned down like a needle binding seems
so that when people cross me
when they cut these paths
we can speak
and we can be together
for a moment in time
 
this is how i feel about myself.]]> 2018-02-08 17:47:52 UTC https://padlet.com/ashleyestrada461/sa4dkufhcap4/wish/229715612