Kaci X. Tavares

ABOUT
Kaci X. Tavares is a bilingual poet, licensed English teacher, and freelance editor.
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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.