Thank you for your continued support to the Dear Someone Somewhere - Audio Letters Podcast. Here are poems from deep water, poems from an excavation, writings that were trapped and needed rescue. In return it has provided me movment. Movement means I am further from, a step away—not in the same place anymore. Movement means I’ve worked hard for it and placed my body and my thoughts in unspeakable positions to look into trauma. I have come to the days of The Un-knotting. Days of pass-throughs oceans of movement, movement, movement. The poems you will hear are ten works in conversation with lower case truths, because it is good to take pauseand gauge where we are in life. Writing is truly a way towards the immeasurable inside. I’m glad I’ve written these poems. They are now free. My boat is now moving. I am Doing The Unstuck.

© 2021 Roxas-Chua 姚

© 2021 Roxas-Chua 姚

© 2021 Roxas-Chua 姚

© 2021 Roxas-Chua 姚

Read at Walt Whitman's 200th Birthday celebration at the Brooklyn Public Library

© 2021 Roxas-Chua 姚

© 2021 Roxas-Chua 姚

© 2021 Roxas-Chua 姚

© 2021 Roxas-Chua 姚

Welcome to the Dear Someone Somewhere Audio Letters Podcast!

Using personal, non-linear writing, this podcast is a documentation about working and moving through struggles related to adoption, loss, and religious indoctrination. Dear Someone Somewhere is also an invitation to use writing to process events in our lives where we do not have words for.

The audio recorded entries in this podcast are from my 4th collection of poetry and prose because I feel not all poems want to live inside a book and we need new paradigms in literature. 

A special thank you to everyone who participated in making this first installation happen. Big thank you to Sacha Archer for the intro music.

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Full Bio
Good Morning Sam (Sam Roxas-Chua 姚) is the author of Saying Your Name Three Times Underwater, Echolalia in Script, and Fawn Language. His poems, artworks, and asemic writings have appeared in journals including Narrative, December Magazine, Cream City Review and an essay/review of his two recent books appears in the Georgia Review and Rhino Poetry. His poetry sequence Diary of Collected Summers was awarded the Missouri Review’s Miller Audio Prize and most recently he was interviewed by Gulf Coast Journal. In his writing process, Sam is interested in discovering the invisible poem.

Sam is a multilingual speaker and a foundling.  His life began as a domestic/transracial adoptee and transcultural after his family moved to northern america. Sam has exhibited his visual works and read for PEN International Philippines and at the Performatura literature and arts festival at the Cultural Center of the Philippines. 

Current 2021-2022 projects include an 8-week artists/writer in residence at Portland Chinatown Museum and a visiting guest writer in Portland State University in February 2022.