Category: Poetry
Three Poems by Nicole Lee
In the house that he built as / the 60s were turning I / find myself standing where I was / once a smart alec kid going / places who sort of looked down / on her parents who wanted the / life reached by climbing a stair / that began somewhere else
Two Poems by Isla McKetta
Child of Reagan, what if the Russian boogeyman / is my blood?
Two Poems by Tse Hao Guang
when I grow up I will be God / of Cooking, grow / up will be Saint of Gambling / be Tricks Expert, tough
Apologia of the Besieged City
By Nicholas Wong | Some people love like they believe the romantic / folklore about the moon, but they love too literally / from inside a spacesuit.
Landscapes, Hong Kong
By Cheng Tim Tim | There are so many ways of breaking.
November 2020
By Tammy Lai-Ming Ho | My mother’s eyes are dry but tears / sometimes find their way there. / The woman selling dead seafood keeps / wetting the lobsters with ice water / near the shore where tourists cheer and wave.
from The Book of Leaving
By Noeme Grace C. Tabor-Farjani | Memories are jumping out of the baggage. I have not even arrived yet nor have I left.
Three Poems by Xiao Yue Shan
people swam up windows, waiting for rain, and / occasionally knocked on one another’s doors / holding boxes of citrus fruits—sirens inside / sage-green paper.