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Sherry Quan Lee

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SHERRY QUAN LEE, author of How to Write a Suicide Note (2008) approaches writing as a community resource and as culturally based art of an ordinary everyday practical aesthetic.

Love Imagined: a mixed race memoir (2014), Modern History Press is a finalist for a Minnesota Book Award.

Quan Lee teaches Creative Writing at Metropolitan State University, Saint Paul, Minnesota,

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I am going to talk about anger…

“I Give You Back”– “I release you, my beautiful and terrible fear / I release you …. I am not afraid to be angry / I am not afraid to rejoice …”–Joy Harjo

I’ve been known to be angry. I react. And, no I’m not bi-polar as some have labeled me. I didn’t, I don’t, I wouldn’t take those accusations lightly. I’ve been to therapy. I was never diagnosed as bi-polar. Though there should be no shame if the

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	How Dare We! Write 4.63 avg rating — 32 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	And You Can Love Me: a story for everyone who loves someone with Autism Spectrum Disorder by Sherry Quan Lee (Goodreads Author), Teagan Merrifield (Illustrator), Kyra Gaylor (Calligrapher) 4.61 avg rating — 23 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Love Imagined: A Mixed Race Memoir by Sherry Quan Lee (Goodreads Author), Lola Osunkoya (Foreword) 3.65 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2014 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How to Write a Suicide Note: Serial Essays That Saved a Woman's Life 3.36 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Septuagenarian: love is what happens when I die 4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chinese Blackbird 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2002 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How Dare We! Write: A Multicultural Creative Writing Discourse, 2nd Edition really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chromosomes & Genes: An Interracial Anthology it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Strength to Love

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Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation through Anger

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“When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.”
― Anais Nin

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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

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“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

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“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

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“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

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Biracial/Mixed Race Literature — 90 members — last activity Jun 16, 2023 05:43PM
Study and discuss literature (fiction and memoir) that deals specifically with being mixed race, mixed ethnicity, biracial, or multiracial. Whatever y ...more

¡ POETRY ! — 22533 members — last activity Apr 13, 2026 03:25PM
No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more

Mixed Remixed Festival — 170 members — last activity Jan 21, 2019 07:18AM
an on-line book club for readers to discuss books about the mixed-race and multiracial experience picked by the Mixed Remixed team up to 10 times per ...more