This is Episode 98 of Poems for the Speed of Life.

Today's piece is "Color" by Tina Chang.

Tina Chang is an American poet with a Taiwanese heritage. She has published three collections of poetry and co-edited the anthology Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond.

The poet laureate of Brooklyn, on taking up that role she described her mission as trying "to break down the wall between people and poetry. Somewhere along the way, we have felt intimidated by it, or we have felt we have to be well-educated in order to be able to access it or walk into that world."

That mission tallies with what I’m attempting to do in this podcast. To introduce a single poem each day that might help you, as listener, see yourself, see the world, see yourself in the world in a new light. "Color" is easy to read but it contains depths of unknowing, focusing on maybe the biggest unknowing of all: our own complex identity, our own idea of who we are, who we were, who we are becoming.

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