Kai Carlson-Wee is the author of RAIL (2018) and The Cloudmaker’s Key (forthcoming in 2027), both from BOA Editions. He has received a Pushcart Prize, a MacDowell Fellowship, and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship. He lives in San Francisco and is a lecturer at Stanford University.
Poetry
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TruthFinder1982
Migraines made me tremble at the light,suffering laptops, cell phone spreadsheets,hours in night rooms studying the contoursof Little Saint James — inlets, outlets,building roofs displayed on Google Maps.Years when things were wild […]
Rural Spaces
Fall 2024
Deer Head Hoop
The Kenyon Review · “Deer Head Hoop” by Kai Carlson-Wee The deer head hung from the basketball hoop. Blood coming down in frozen ropes. Tongue rolling out of the mouth […]
Poetry
Nov/Dec 2021
Mattress
This guy, my friend, wanted me to make love to his wife on the mattress. He wanted to watch. I said, I’m not getting involved in some freaky shit. I […]