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Cleo Qian

@cleoqian.bsky.social
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writer | 🌈 | author of LET'S GO LET'S GO LET'S GO (Tin House 2023)

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Glass Poetry Press @glasspoetry.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
"My hatred lives on through my singing Repelling hummingbirds, ladybugs, worms My hatred has grown very tall Its fingers all dangle with seeds" “Vinegar Ceremony” by Cleo Qian (@cleoqian.bsky.social) from @honeyliterary.bsky.social www.honeyliterary.com/issue-5-/poe...
Vinegar Ceremony
after Mary Ruefle


I bury my hatred in the graveyard

I water my hatred with vinegar

I fertilize my hatred with salt

My hatred grows deep like a tuber

I leave my hatred to dry

Maybe my hatred will die

My hatred still grows without water

Its leaves still sprout without sun

My hatred grows teeth like a shadow

Its fruit is a hard metal bomb

My hatred lives on through my singing

Repelling hummingbirds, ladybugs, worms

My hatred has grown very tall

Its fingers all dangle with seeds

I peek from the corner of my vision

Will my hatred be forgotten if I kill it?

I am afraid to pull it out by the rootVinegar Ceremony
after Mary Ruefle


I bury my hatred in the graveyard

I water my hatred with vinegar

I fertilize my hatred with salt

My hatred grows deep like a tuber

I leave my hatred to dry

Maybe my hatred will die

My hatred still grows without water

Its leaves still sprout without sun

My hatred grows teeth like a shadow

Its fruit is a hard metal bomb

My hatred lives on through my singing

Repelling hummingbirds, ladybugs, worms

My hatred has grown very tall

Its fingers all dangle with seeds

I peek from the corner of my vision

Will my hatred be forgotten if I kill it?

I am afraid to pull it out by the rootAbout Cleo Qian
Cleo Qian is a writer from southern California. Her work has been published in The Guardian, Shenandoah, Pleiades, AAWW's The Margins and elsewhere. Her first book, LET'S GO LET'S GO LET'S GO, is forthcoming from TIn House in 2023.
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Cleo Qian @cleoqian.bsky.social · 29/01/2024
Teaching at Tin House this summer!
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Cleo Qian @cleoqian.bsky.social · 15/01/2024
wonder if there's a relationship between avant-garde aesthetics and radical politics. Why are all the most radical/visionary artists I know also the most leftist in their politics?
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Cleo Qian @cleoqian.bsky.social · 21/11/2023
Love to be in this one!
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Tin House @tinhouse.bsky.social · 17/10/2023
💐Congratulations @cleoqian.bsky.social ! Longlisted for the 🏆2024 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction! www.ala.org/rusa/awards/...
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 27/09/2023
The poet Natalie Diaz lost her brother Mino to a car accident this last Monday and is fundraising to help his family. Please give if you can. gofund.me/d42e8c18
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Support for Mino Diaz Family, organized by Natalie Diaz
My parents never thought they would have to lay their son, my brother, down into the earth.… Natalie Diaz needs your support for Support for Mino Diaz Family
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Cleo Qian @cleoqian.bsky.social · 19/09/2023
I talked on the I'm A Writer But podcast (episode here): lithub.com/cleo-qian-on...
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Cleo Qian on the Differences Between Writing Poetry and Fiction
Welcome to I’m a Writer But, where writers discuss their work, their lives, their other work, the stuff that takes up any free time they have, all the stuff they’re not able to get to, …
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Tin House @tinhouse.bsky.social · 29/08/2023
"As I wandered my own landscapes of alienation, loneliness & fear, the books I turned to showed me other girls who walked similar paths. Briefly, while reading them, I did feel less alone." ⚡ LET'S GO LET'S GO LET'S GO's @cleoqian.bsky.social at Electric Lit electricliterature.com/9-books-abou...
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9 Books about Women's Loneliness - Electric Literature
Cleo Qian, author of "Let’s Go Let’s Go Let’s Go," recommends stories about the search for connection
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Cleo Qian @cleoqian.bsky.social · 28/08/2023
Two new poems in wildness! "Meditations on the Discovery of Green" and "Kitchen Study of Early Adulthood" readwildness.com/31/
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Issue No. 31 | wildnesswildness
Wildness is an online literary and arts journal.
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Cleo Qian @cleoqian.bsky.social · 26/08/2023
Love these two smart takes from Cleaver Magazine on LET'S GO! Love being read by Asian girlies! www.cleavermagazine.com/two-takes-on...
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Two Takes on LET’S GO LET’S GO LET’S GO, stories by Cleo Qian: Lillian Lowenthal and Audrey La...
One New Book, Two ReviewsLET’S GO LET’S GO LET’S GOby Cleo QianTin House Books, 246 pages Cleaver’s internship program offers the opportunity to review a new book from a small or indie press u...
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Cleo Qian @cleoqian.bsky.social · 21/08/2023
Thank you Chicago Review of Books for this thoughtful review of LET'S GO LET'S GO LET'S GO! chireviewofbooks.com/2023/08/21/let…
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The Embrace of the Literary Speculative Space in “Let’s Go Let’s Go Let’s Go”
Our review of Cleo Qian’s debut story collection, “Let’s Go Let’s Go Let’s Go.”
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Diana Ruzova @dianaruzova.bsky.social · 15/08/2023
I interviewed @cleoqian.bsky.social for Full Stop about her debut short story collection Let’s Go Let’s Go Let’s Go (Tin House). www.full-stop.net/2023/08/15/interv…
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Cleo Qian
There's so many queer Asian women, like so many. But you don’t see much of that in literature. But I think that more and more of us are writing and publishing now. It’s a game changer and it's jus...
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