POETRY In illustrations, a thin line or a curved line or a broken line can illustrate softness. Q&A I want to know if the language I’m using emotionally corresponds with the place I’m tying it to.
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Gentleness is Something New I Can Afford
Q&A with Asa Drake, Author of Maybe the Body
Asa Drake
Asa Drake is a Filipina/white poet in Central Florida. She is the author of Maybe the Body (Tin House, 2026) and Beauty Talk (Noemi Press, 2026), winner of the 2024 Noemi Press Book Award. A National Poetry Series finalist, she is the recipient of fellowships and awards from the 92Y Discovery Poetry Contest, Kenyon Review Residential Writers Workshop, the Rona Jaffe Foundation, Storyknife, Sundress Publications, Tin House and Idyllwild Arts. Her poems are published or forthcoming in the American Poetry Review, Georgia Review, Poetry, and Sewanee Review. A former librarian, she currently works as a teaching artist.
