a full mid-day moon against a hazy, dusty, pink sky hanging over the tips of a lush, green jungle in Phongsaly, Laos. A gradient rust-red border contains orange, black and white text reading:
Nying.Jae aka J. Von Saechao
collected works
poetry reading + art show
[virtual]
12.15.21; 4-6pm PST

It’s Sagittarius Season and the middle mark of my Saturn Return so I thought I’d celebrate by hosting a cute virtual poetry reading + art show!

Grab a warm drink/a cozy meal and join me for a night of poetry + art in reflection of my journey thus far as an Ancestor-In Training while envisioning this next chapter of my path as a full-time artist/creator.

My reimagined + reclaimed name, Nying.Jae, is an embodiment of my evolution through continued creative healing. As I move forward in unraveling and peeling back layers, Nying.Jae feels like who I am, have been, and strive to embody at my core.

In honor of all of the above, I’ll be reading and discussing my full collection of poems, including a few lesser known pieces. I’ll also be showing art, new and old (some available for purchase!) and sharing forthcoming + in-the-works projects.

Topics/themes/ideas sure to be explored throughout this time together -- intersections of feminism + Indigenous identity as Khmu and Iu Mien women, femmes and folks assigned female at birth, belonging as perpetually displaced Indigenous Southeast Asian peoples of diaspora, culture keeping and culture shifting as second-generation and beyond, fatness, queerness, mental health, chronic pain and relationships to the body as firsthand survivors and inheritors of both ancestral wisdom and intergenerational trauma, reclaiming spirituality through art and muuuuuuch much more.

Banner image description: a full mid-day moon against a hazy, dusty, pink sky hanging over the tips of a lush, green jungle in Phongsaly, Laos. A gradient rust-red border contains orange, black and white text reading:
Nying.Jae aka J. Von Saechao
collected works
poetry reading + art show
[virtual]
12.15.21; 4-6pm PST