Monica Sok is a Cambodian American poet from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She has received fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Poetry Society of America, Kundiman, the Elizabeth George Foundation, and the Stadler Center for Poetry. She holds an MFA in creative writing from New York University.
Nature's (Human) Nature
May/June 2018
Parable of a Brief Ceasefire
A man is a man inside a banyan climbing on temple roofs. I feel large banyans climb the walls; whole jungles flee themselves. There are men inside the banyans, men […]
Nature's (Human) Nature
May/June 2018
Windfall
The fishermen, desperate, poisoned them with a cloudy gasoline so they dropped like apples on the ground one might find below a tree. Except these were birds out of water, […]
Poetry
Nov/Dec 2017
Ask the Locals
Nobody knows how those so-called revolutionaries who wanted year zero so bad, turned into mosquitoes. I mean, mosquitoes right? Because not butterflies or moths rolling in the mass graves—we all […]
Monica Sok
Monica Sok is a Cambodian American poet from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She has received fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Poetry Society of America, Kundiman, the Elizabeth […]