Rita Wong — flush

<p>The word “flush” is a verb, as in an activity that we do umpteen times a day. It’s also an adjective that conveys abundance. Fittingly, Rita Wong’s poem “flush” offers a praise song to water’s expansive and unceasing presence in our lives — from our toilets to our teacups, from inside our bodies to outside our buildings, and from our soil to our skies. </p><p>Rita Wong is the author of several poetry collections, including <i>monkeypuzzle</i> (Press Gang, 1998), <a href="https://onbeing.org/programs/rita-wong-flush/#media"><i>forage</i></a> (Nightwood Editions, 2007), and <a href="https://onbeing.org/programs/rita-wong-flush/#media"><i>undercurrent</i></a> (Nightwood Editions, 2015). Wong is an associate professor at the Emily Carr University of Art + Design.</p><p><a href="https://onbeing.org/programs/rita-wong-flush/#transcript">Find the transcript</a> for this show at onbeing.org.</p><p>We’re pleased to offer <a href="https://onbeing.org/poetry/flush">Rita Wong’s poem</a>, and in...