Xinyue Huang is a bilingual poet who writes in English and Chinese currently pursuing an MFA in poetry at NYU. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in The Georgia Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Bellevue Literary Review, and elsewhere. She is the winner of the 2023 Loraine Williams Poetry Prize.
2025 Poetry Contest
Fall 2025
My Coworker Thought I Didn’t Know What A Lox Bagel Was, So He Said to Me, “It’s Just Like Sushi”
if a lox bagel is just like sushi then pizza is also sushi and lasagnais also sushi hamburger is sushi chips are sushi your lips are sushion the lips you […]
2025 Poetry Contest
Fall 2025
Short Talks
After Anne Carson On 行囊 Mom is packing the most horrendous amount of antibiotics into my luggage: cephalosporin, azithromycin, one for COVID, the other for UTIs. Then all the Asian […]
2025 Poetry Contest
Fall 2025
Bargain / 契
You have done all you could do, loitering in the streets with your littering steps, asking people for the lid of my heart. Five dollars for a skin-limp 包子 /bao […]
2025 Poetry Contest
Fall 2025
To the Chinese Uncle on the Downtown Six Train
how I wish I could explain to you in detail what it takes to arrive — your jittering eyes yourcallused hands your moving toward me in broken steps your army-green jacket fading […]