November 3, 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 […]
November 3, 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 […]
November 3, 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 […]
November 3, 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 […]
November 3, 2025
Introduction
The Kenyon Review’s second annual poetry contest was judged by Diane Seuss, author of five collections of poems, including frank: sonnets (Graywolf Press, 2021), winner of the Pulitzer Prize and […]