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Episode 99: Oliver de la Paz, Pantoum Beginning and Ending with Thorns
October 15th, 2025 | 33 mins 3 secs
asian american literature, diaspora, exile, filipino american literature, immigrant experience, migration, pantoum, poetic form
In this third episode in our series on the pantoum, we read and discuss Oliver de la Paz's "Pantoum Beginning and Ending with Thorns," a poem that draws its inspiration from a visual art object as well as the story of migration that shapes the poetic speaker's lived experience.