J. YURU ZHŌU

writer – poet – researcher – artist

upcoming 🌬

  • July 17, 6-7pm | Friday Poetry Series @ Tamarack
  • currently (06/25/26): I am writing poems++, scheming workshops, learning tai chi for elders, roping my friends into doing floorwork with me, and learning how to DJ :~) 🐎
  • 🗓 see recents on  events and updates

🌱 “hope is invented every day,” james baldwin

A New Ecopoetry Anthology, March 2025

The Seventh Wave: “{} of history,” “crush conference & craft lesson on the moon”, June 2024

Litquake Out Loud: Full Circle, Oct 2023
Asian American Poetics as a Radical Possibility
workshops for Flowers & Fields, Oct – Dec 2024
Bernice Bing: Open Call, June – Dec 2023
Southeastern Expansion (in Southern Exposure’s “Antidotes to Confusion”), Aug – Sept 2021
Body Language, with Sarah Bush Dance Project, July 2023
🌱 “this is poetry as illumination…

for it is through poetry that we give name to those ideas which are, until the poem, nameless and formless-about to be birthed, but already felt…

for within structures defined by profit, by linear power, by institutional dehumanization, our feelings were not meant to survive,” audre lorde
🌱 poetry as “the tools with which I made a small opening, and the means by which I moved forward,” carl phillips
🌱 “poetry is a political action undertaken for the sake of information, the faith, the exorcism and the lyrical invention, that telling the truth makes possible,” june jordan

🌱 “and where that language does not yet exist, it is our poetry which helps to fashion it.
poetry is not only dream or vision, it is the skeleton architecture of our lives,” audre lorde

🫧  whatever we might’ve been, might become, can ask of art, history, presence on+offline. 🌖