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Like Louisiana in general, and New Orleans in particular, many parts of the world are working to reclaim land from the sea, as well as reclaim the sea and other water bodies from pollution and catastrophe. More figuratively, reclamation is also a way to repossess one's identity, history, and space from forces that would deny or crush them. In this reading, three poets—Ally Chua (Acts of Self-Consumption), Brad Vogel (Find Me in the Feral Pockets: Poems from the Gowanus Interregnum) and Shuan Sim —speak of their attempts to reclaim themselves and the idea of home, and read from those acts of self-reclamation. From Singapore to New York, the reclamation occurs both physically and abstractly in a way that demands reckoning. Moderated by Kimberley Lim of Gaudy Boy, an imprint of Singapore Unbound.