Tag: poem

  • Retelling the Skies: An Interview with Monica Ong

    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,…

  • A Scrying for the Unheard Voices: A Review of  Cathy Linh Che’s Becoming Ghost

    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…

  • A Literary Séance: An Interview with Cathy Linh Che

    A Literary Séance: An Interview with Cathy Linh Che

    Cathy Linh Che is a writer and multidisciplinary artist. She is the author of Becoming Ghost (Washington Square Press, 2025), a Finalist for the National Book Award, Split (Alice James Books) and co-author of the children’s book An Asian American A to Z: a Children’s Guide to Our History (Haymarket Books). Her video installation Appocalips…

  • We Are All We Have: An Interview with Emily Jungmin Yoon

    We Are All We Have: An Interview with Emily Jungmin Yoon

    Emily Jungmin Yoon is a poet, translator, editor, and scholar. She is the author of the full-length poetry collection A Cruelty Special to Our Species (Ecco | HarperCollins 2018), winner of the 2019 Devil’s Kitchen Reading Award, and finalist for the 2020 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. The book was released in Korean as 우리 종족의…