Three Poems

Last Nostalgia Starting with a Piece of Spider Plant on our Car’s Backseat

You moved clippings of your childhood spider plant
with us in a Ziploc half-filled with tap water

Prayer

I am telling you, first of all, that your husband will be beautiful, but he will be a man who will love you then stand out on the stoop, the red eye of a cigarette sighing between his lips, his shoulders slumped as he sucks smoke in a state of unexplainable melancholy.…

The Ivy Power: Don Lee’s The Collective

In The Collective, the most recent installment of the American campus novel, Don Lee presents a group of Asian American artists whose coming-of-age is marked by an irresolvable conflict: the tug-of-war between self-identity and community.…

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