Born in the year of the metal goat, Anni Liu is the author of Border Vista (Persea Books), which won the Lexi Rudnitsky Prize and was a New York Times Best Poetry Book of 2022. She’s the recipient of an Undocupoets Fellowship, a Djanikian Scholarship from the Adroit Journal, and residencies at Civitella Ranieri and the Anderson Center. She's an editor at Graywolf Press and lives in Philadelphia.

POETRY

Those Winter Evenings

By ANNI LIU

I’d come home from campus in the blue-black / dim of dinnertime, the air pummeling me awake from the daze