Kaci X. Tavares

ABOUT
Kaci X. Tavares is a bilingual poet, licensed English teacher, and freelance editor.
Hailing from Honolulu, HI, she holds an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia, and degrees in English and English Education from Boston University.
Poet • Editor • Teacher
Recent
Between the Boxes
Created as a comprehensive final assignment for an introductory publishing course at the University of East Anglia, Between the Boxes envisions a multi-media space for those who live between identities, languages, cultures, and nations.
Language Lessons
"Within this portfolio, I crawl into my language gaps and attempt to translate them into poetry. Some poems tell of cracks that have begun healing, while others tell of those that are still bleeding. I emerge from my languages a poet ready to prove: My languages are not broken."
Coloring the Canon
Kaci's Blog: An investigation into the racial dispairity in the Anglosphere's publishing industry, book recommendations by authors of color, and more.