RELAUNCHING April 2024
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Reclaiming Asian Identity through Story
Andover Edition
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RAGE
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Our rage is real. On April 18th, Andover’s writer-in-residence Mr. Linmark facilitated the ArtRage Writing Workshop, inviting expressions of feelings and thoughts by AAPI students in response to contemporary and historical violence, bigotry, and racism. Participants created the ArtRage Renga: a collaborative haiku currently on display in the OWHL!
Renga is an ancient Japanese poetic form comprised of haikus alternating with a couplet. Traditionally, a haiku is a three-line poem of 5-7-5 syllables, followed by a two-line stanza of 7-7 syllables. For this ArtRage poetry project, however, we also played with and bent the rules to amplify our words on the page.
Visit the display and send us a comment or a new verse to add!
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ArtRage: a Renga
1.Soph Ma, Senior
Abominable
When “bad days” pardon murder,
Our fury waves break loud.
2.Harry Chanpaiboonrat, Senior
When their hatred fails to budge,
A nudge is no longer enough
3.David Zhu, Senior
Paper Sons bearing
Bullet wounds and silent scars.
Paper, stained yellow.
4.Izzy Torio, Senior
Suppressed, where does the pain go
We’re buried before we live.
5.Victor Malzahn, Senior
they ask my mother
are you the cleaning lady—
No, this is my home.
6. Soph Ma, Senior
Stay home. Hide your face. Not safe.
I caution my grandmother.
7.Amy Jiang, Senior
my warm embrace
through your worn smudged screen
you’re not alone.
8.Amelia Cheng,. Senior
In Spring, blooming cherry blossoms
For willing hearts to mend.
9.Clara Tu, Senior
Flowing river, we
Meander through paths until
Waves break upon shore.
10.Soph Ma, Senior
Riddled with holes, news-
paper’s edges.
11. Izzy Torio, Senior
heads turn: know your place
blood spills, cries pierce the laughter
silence falls, always
12. Sarah Pan, Junior
But you were raised that way
Your failure are rebellion
13. Amelia Cheng, Senior
My waipo’s shoulders
Sink in silent weight, falling
Skin: dried, forsaken.
14. Clara Tu, Senior
Weapon of mass destruction
Essence invented of us.
15. Zoe Yu, Lower
Triangulated
To the corner pinned so tightly,
Struggling to break free.
16. Rhine Peng, Junior
Should I be ashamed of what
My parents could not become?
17. Sarah Pan, Junior
Hatred stirs the pot
What once hid at the bottom
Right up to the top
18. Eleanor Tong, Junior
An entire generation
Traumatized again by hate.
19. Soph Ma, Senior
Rose-colored glasses turn clear.
We aren’t safe.
Have never been.
20. Zoe Yu, Lower
Glossing over our merits
Like they’re matter of fact.
21. Eleanor Tong, Junior
Hear it constantly,
More excuses excuses
Justify our pain.
22. Clara Tu, Senior
Weapons of mass destruction
Cut from the same name.
23. Rhine Peng, Junior
Blamed for pestilence
Virus of baseless hate
Doubly infectious.
24. Eleanor Tong, Junior
How these hate-filled demons chase us—
Do they even understand?
25. Clara Tu, Senior
“Power in silence”
Berated by those whose homes
Lay over our shards.
26. Sarah Pan, Junior
You aren’t like the others
Buttercream in a yellow shell
27. Eleanor Tong, Junior
When people dare try
To say “it was a bad day for him”
For him? What about us—gaping wound?
28. Soph Ma, Senior
Caution: Quiet
Storms rising to the surface.
29. Izzy Torio, Senior
We’re the joke
Until blood pierces the laughter
Silence falls, always.
30. Elizabeth Chou, Upper
you can’t seem to hear, see me.
you can’t seem to meet my gaze
31. Isabel Chin, Senior
another morning
rays of yellow sun belong to us
in their strength lies tomorrow’s breath.
32. Alex Park, Senior
Inalienable lives,
Small stones are cut from big stones.
33. Emma Fu, Senior
In a garden
All yearning for the same sky
Colors that never blend.
34. Ethan Chan, Senior
Shame no longer about skin—
silence exploding.
35. Emma Fu, Senior
Sometimes I wonder:
when did you start telling me
to take the easier path.
36. Isabel Chin, Senior
our pounding heartaches hold hands
hope out for tomorrow.
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