Zilka Joseph’s work has appeared in Review Americana, Gastronomica, Cutthroat, and in Cheers To Muses: Contemporary Works by Asian American Women. Her awards include a Hopwood, a Zell Fellowship, and her new chapbook What Dread has been nominated for a Pushcart prize. She works at the University of Michigan and is currently circulating a full length book of poems.
Summer 2012
Death of a Frog; You, Without Shoes
Death of a Frog
—Philautus Maia, first and only specimen ever to be found, circa 1860, in Sri Lanka
I. Maya: Illusion
And who were your ancestors,
your glossy little children, lone
ghost of the emerald
Zilka Joseph
Zilka Joseph’s work has appeared in Review Americana, Gastronomica, Cutthroat, and in Cheers To Muses: Contemporary Works by Asian American Women. Her awards include a Hopwood, a Zell Fellowship, and […]