"BLUEPRINTS" out now!
Jeanelle Fu is a Taiwanese-American poet and creative storyteller who resides with her husband in Los Angeles. Her poems have been performed at UCLA, translated into multiple languages and featured in various literary journals. She has experience with spoken word and collaborating across mediums such as film and dance. She is currently accepting commissions.
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Jeanelle
Fu
I'm an LA-based writer who believes in the ability of art to transform the world from the inside out. I think storytelling is so powerful because it speaks to the child in all of us that is still looking for wonder, for hope, for truth. What would it look like for us to start over as humanity, every morning?
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I will draft a spontaneous poem based on the info you give me: a name, interests, a topic within minutes! Or we can have a conversation and I'll write what I think best encapsulates what you're feeling.
In this photo I am wearing a qipao for the first time at Sua's Lunar New Year event on Larchmont! (and composing a poem for actress Sherry Cola while remaining calm)
“There’s a reason poets often say, ‘Poetry saved my life,’ for often the blank page is the only one listening to the soul’s suffering, the only one registering the story completely, the only one receiving all softly and without condemnation.”
-Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“If you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent rambling. You must write every single day of your life. You must read dreadful dumb books and glorious books, and let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head, vulgar one moment, brilliant the next. You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads. I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon you. May you live with hysteria, and out of it make fine stories — science fiction or otherwise. Which finally means, may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.”
― Ray Bradbury