Celebrate the release of What's Left Is Tender by Travis Chi Wing Lau with us at 7pm on Monday, August 18! Featuring readings from Travis Chi Wing Lau, Michael Leong and Mandy Shunnarah.
What's Left Is Tender explores tenderness as an act, an affect, a relation, a sensation, a theory. In a series of lyric and formal experiments, this collection interrogates how tenderness is often at the very intersections of disability, queerness, and race and how often that tenderness can also simultaneously mean struggle, discomfort, and even trauma. These poems explore the tenderness of being cared for, of caring for others and how that care can sometimes itself be painful even as it may attempt to ease that pain. This book ultimately asks if poetry's tenderness can tender new ways of thinking about the ethics of care.
Travis Chi Wing Lau (he/him/his) is the author of three previous chapbook collections: The Bone Setter (Damaged Goods Press, 2019), Paring (Finishing Line Press, 2020), and Vagaries (Fork Tine Press, 2022). His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in The Academy of American Poets’ “Poem-A-Day” series, The Asian American Writers’ Workshop’s The Margins series, Action, Spectacle, Barren Magazine, Cincinnati Review, fourteen poems, Foglifter, Glass, Hypertext, Impossible Archetype, Nat. Brut, Rogue Agent, The South Carolina Review, Tupelo Quarterly among many others. His work has been nominated for both the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net Anthology, republished in Queer Nature (Autumn House Press, 2022), and longlisted in the Best American Essays anthology (2020). He was the winner of the Christopher Hewitt Award for Poetry (2019) and a recipient of the Greater Columbus Arts Council’s Artists Elevated Prize (2024). He is co-editor of Every Place on the Map Is Disabled: Poems and Essays on Disability (Northwestern University Press, 2026). He holds a B.A. in English/Classics from UCLA, M.A. & Ph.D. in English from The University of Pennsylvania. He currently teaches eighteenth and nineteenth-century British literature and culture, health humanities, and disability studies at Kenyon college and lives in Columbus, Ohio.
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