news | Sunday April 26, 2026

Nicole Raziya Fong on All Lit Up

All Lit Up features Nicole Raziya Fong for their National Poetry Month series, Poets Resist, where twenty-one poets use poetry to push back against marginalizing forces. Nicole Raziya Fong reads work from their new collection SUBTEXT, which takes a multifaceted approach to questions of diaspora and selfhood, incorporating visual and textual elements that dialogue with one another and ask readers to negotiate the unsteady shoals of identity and history. They also give an interview on the role poetry might have in resistance. From the interview:

“Poetry’s resistance is formal, historical, and personal. Poetry is a place where we can begin to approach that which cannot be plainly stated in ordinary speech. Poetry has the potential to work within language to dissemble the walls created between things—both visually and conceptually.”

Listen to Nicole Raziya Fong read and check out their interview with the All Lit Up team here.