I have never done this before, / picked out a hanbok slash been her daughter.
POETRY
POETRY
I have never done this before, / picked out a hanbok slash been her daughter.
MICRO
This is everything and nothing / I've never heard before.
Q&A
"I believe anything can be said on the page. The issue may be whether the writer has the courage to say what needs to be said."
ESSAY
There are more emails from a series of strangers. They have questions. They’re confused by my branch on their family tree.
RECENTLY PUBLISHED
"which famine do you belong to? / will you watch your mouth?"
When I imagine warping my body to wring the pain out, it’s my skull I imagine remolding. I screw my head off like a bottle cap. An extreme: after breaking the ice that’s formed at the surface, I plunge bone into crisp water, freezing pain.
Where can a girl go, but to a husband’s home? Somewhere in cities, impractical idiots dream of a revolution—our own land, our own country—but here in the village, there are only mountains and marriage.