THIS IS FOR MẸ: Thanksgiving for Living Grace
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Lynn Nguyen Boland shares a poetic homily to her mother, meditating on memories of mothering and the complexities of belonging, heritage, language and home.
Even in Times of Global Panic I am a Narcissist ~ a poem by Steven Duong
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as my fever rides on
to a brighter & snowier peak
the tyrant of my heart texts me a HuffPo
article about the novel coronavirus
to a brighter & snowier peak
the tyrant of my heart texts me a HuffPo
article about the novel coronavirus
Angels ~ a poem by Genaro Kỳ Lý Smith
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News came to me of two men falling from the sky
after having been birthed from the steel,
burning carcass of their mother.
Fuck off, we’re full ~ a poem by Tracey Lien
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To move to another suburb, for another school, because the pre-school teacher said there were too many Asians at this one, that you’d develop an Asian accent, that a new environment was the only way to cleanse the tongue.
Alternate Reality, or, A Narrow Opening ~ a poem by Bao Phi
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Instead of a grandmother kicked in her face: a thousand orchids blooming from each swinging foot, the stems and petals forming a fragrant facemask wrapped around every face - hers, and yours.
Textures of April 30th: Poems by Katherina Nguyen
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I wish I knew Miss Saigon, / knew her through my parents’ eyes, / before the worry lines crowded their vision, / before her name became another word for loss.