Jennifer Hasegawa is a poet,
photographer, and
community archivist. Her manuscript for
La Chica’s Field Guide to Banzai Living (Omnidawn 2020) won the Joseph Henry Jackson Literary Award and the collection was long-listed for The Believer Book Award in Poetry. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in
The Adroit Journal,
Bamboo Ridge,
Bennington Review,
jubilat,
Tule Review, and
Vallum. Hasegawa was born and raised on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi and lives in San Francisco.
What do you find most difficult about writing poetry?
Getting out of the way. Sneaking past my logical mind is the hardest part. Sometimes it takes hours of “preparing to write.” Reading. Listening. Playing. And then an opening will present itself, the logical mind has its back turned, and I might be able to catch a poem coming through.
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