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Kien Lam

Kien Lam is a Kundiman fellow and received his MFA from Indiana University. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming from Ploughshares, Gulf Coast, Sugar House Review, and elsewhere. He lives in Los Angeles where he writes about eSports.

July/Aug 2017

Guerilla Theory

By Kien Lam

The largest primate in the world is the white man’s ego. It has learned thousands of English words it employs every day in an attempt to fill the silences of […]