Brian Ng – Epithet https://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/epithet The blog of the Committee on Creative Writing and the Program in Poetry and Poetics at the University of Chicago Wed, 30 Sep 2015 15:20:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.2 QUIZ, by Brian Ng https://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/epithet/quiz-by-brian-ng/ Wed, 21 Jan 2015 21:36:17 +0000 http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/epithet/?p=81 Q: What would Jonathan Swift term dubstep?

A: A wail of a wub.

Q: What does an organized religion both aspire to and, distinctly, fear?
A: A hale of a hub.

Q: What part does theology play in such an aspiration?

A: A sail of a sub.

Q: What consolation does one resort to?
A: A pail of a pub.

Q: What is religion?

A: A nail of a nub.


Brian NgBrian Ng is a third-year majoring in Economics and English Literature. He received a Summer Arts grant from the UChicago Arts Council, and is working on a chapbook and a play on security exploits.

]]> WE REGRET TO INFORM YOU THAT, by Brian Ng https://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/epithet/we-regret-to-inform-you-that/ Tue, 25 Nov 2014 20:13:45 +0000 http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/epithet/?p=63 The wallet fell out before the taxi drove away as a
Carcanet of packets departed from one server to
Another while the century spun, shedding on us
Dull rain: conscious ephemera, a disturbance of flies.

Vehemence in deity or coalition dearth ensures.
Upon joyful spite all worldly blunder depends.
O optative art, – its slovenly soar, choirboys’ mouths
Drooling past pews of fading alms – access is denied.

Next up, revolutions mark umbra on the screen.
The sketches pile even as the marriage is annulled.
The office has ceased to be Euclidean. So, let hence
Be hence. In profile, the weaker eye is forgiven.


Brian NgBrian Ng is a third-year majoring in Economics and English Literature. He received a Summer Arts grant from the UChicago Arts Council, and is working on a chapbook and a play on security exploits.

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