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Tag: Poetry
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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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What Could Be More Like a Poem?: A Review of Michelle Peñaloza’s All the Words I Can Remember Are Poems
Review by Krysten Nakamura Michelle Peñaloza’s All the Words I Can Remember Are Poems asks readers to slow down. I read Peñaloza’s poetry collection on a quiet Saturday, in between scoops of last night’s rice and laughter with my sister over a cheesy horror movie. In this collection, Peñaloza, a child of Filipino immigrants, shares…
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Mānoa Journal Open Call
We are excited to announce our call for submissions for Mānoa Journal’s inaugural Open Call! The theme of the issue is Writing at the Intersection of Language. For this issue, we are looking for stories, craft essays, memoir, art, and poetry that engage with the theme of writing at the intersection of language, the threshold…
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