Silent Trades

Cynthia Arrieu-King is an associate professor of creative writing at Stockton University and a former
Kundiman Asian American Poetry Workshop fellow. Her books include People are Tiny in Paintings of China (2010), Manifest (2013), Futureless Languages (2018), and Continuity (2019). She is also the editor of the Asian Anglophone edition of dusie magazine and Hillary Gravendyk’s posthumous poetry book, The Soluble Hour (2016). Her poem “Silent Trades” will be featured on Poetry Daily shortly after the
publication of this issue of The Journal of Bahá’í Studies.