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Retelling the Skies: An Interview with Monica Ong
Monica Ong is an Asian American visual poet and multidisciplinary artist. She is the author of Silent Anatomies (Kore Press, 2015) and Planetaria (Proxima Vera, 2025). Her work has appeared in Poetry, Scientific American, Hyperallergic, ctrl+v, The Asian American Literary Review, and elsewhere. She received the Kore Press First Book Award in Poetry in 2014,…
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A Scrying for the Unheard Voices: A Review of Cathy Linh Che’s Becoming Ghost
A Review by Timmy Trần As a superstitious person myself, I spent most of my life straying clear from any ghostly activity—such a thing was taboo for me; but in Becoming Ghost (2025), Cathy Linh Che reveals how communing with the deceased can be restorative. Within this poetry collection, Che recollects the personal and established…
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Here Then Gone: An Interview with Alan Chazaro
Alan Chazaro is a Mexican American journalist, poet, and author of These Spaceships Weren’t Built for Us (Tia Chucha Press, 2026), This Is Not a Frank Ocean Cover Album (Black Lawrence Press, 2019), Piñata Theory (Black Lawrence Press, 2020) and Notes from the Eastern Span of the Bay Bridge (Ghost City Press, 2021). A graduate…
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Mānoa Journal named a 2026 Amazon Literary Partnership Literary Magazine Fund Grant Recipient
Mānoa Journal Staff is excited and proud to announce that we are a recipient of a 2026 Amazon Literary Partnership Literary Magazine Fund grant. Please read all about it here www.amazonliterarypartnership.com. After a year of many transitions, we look forward to continuing our work in supporting our writers, building our communities, and publishing wonderful writing.
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Writing About Immigrant Trauma From a Reparative Lens: A review of reyna grande’s migrant heart
A Review by Kai Julian Migrant Heart (2026) by Reyna Grande is an intimate and poignant memoir that explores the interconnected themes of immigration, family separation, acculturation, identity fragmentation, intergenerational trauma, and child abuse among many others. As an undocumented nine-year-old Mexican immigrant who turned into an award-winning author, writing teacher, motivational speaker, and immigrant…
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