Tag Archives: Asian American Poetry

SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: ARLENE KIM

Posted on April 27, 2013 by

By Arlene Kim: (Today’s poems originally appeared in Diode and appear here today with permission from the poet.) Arlene Kim grew up on the east coast of the U.S. before drifting westward. Her first collection of poems What have you … Continue reading →

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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: REGIE CABICO

Posted on June 30, 2012 by

IT’S NOT SO MUCH HIS KISS I RECALL AS HIS VOICE By Regie Cabico A shy pebble rippling water. Each phrase a school of startled ginger fish shimmering through the telephone line. I’d like to invite you to my place … Continue reading →

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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: LI-YOUNG LEE

Posted on March 24, 2012 by

By Li-Young Lee: THE GIFT To pull the metal splinter from my palm my father recited a story in a low voice. I watched his lovely face and not the blade. Before the story ended, he’d removed the iron sliver … Continue reading →

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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: W. TODD KANEKO

Posted on July 16, 2011 by

NORTHWEST POEM by W. Todd Kaneko You will find no herons perched in this poem. No salmonberries or pine cones on sodden paths through cedar. But here is an old woman who slices her calendar into weeks lost and weeks … Continue reading →

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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: OLIVER DE LA PAZ

Posted on June 25, 2011 by

INSOMNIA AS TRANSFIGURATION by Oliver de la Paz Because the night is a scattering of sounds—blunt branches hurtling to the ground, a nest stir, a sigh from someone beside me. Because I am awake and know that I am not … Continue reading →

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