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KUNDIMAN 20TH ANNIVERSARY POETRY PORTFOLIO your hands tweezer, / your fingers comb. POETRY A seed that gave birth MICRO Adopted oak tree / Has a mid-life crisis WIT TEA I am the lamb’s wool and the wolf crying beneath thin skin. Lick between my ribs.
American Lục Bát Sonnet For Extracting Your Mother’s Gray Hairs
In Praise of my Threaded Eyebrows
to a legacy worth each bruised
palm from each time you lose
your grip
& fall to roots or feet,
bare feet.
Haiku for Home
After I Was Mistaken for the Stripper While Delivering Barbeque to an All-White Bachelorette Party
Joshua Nguyen
EDITOR, WIT TEA
Joshua Nguyen is the author of COME CLEAN (University of Wisconsin Press, 2021), winner of the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry, the Writers' League of Texas Discovery Award, and the Mississippi Institute of Arts & Letters Poetry Award. He is also the author of the chapbooks, AMERICAN LUC BÁT FOR MY MOTHER (Bull City Press, 2021) and HIDDEN LABOR & THE NAKED BODY (Sundress Publications, 2023). He is a Vietnamese-American writer, a collegiate national poetry slam champion (CUPSI), and a native Houstonian. He has received fellowships from Kundiman, Tin House, Sundress Academy For The Arts, and the Vermont Studio Center. He has been published in Wildness, The Texas Review, Auburn Avenue, and elsewhere. He is a humor editor for The Offing, the Kundiman South co-chair, a bubble tea connoisseur, and loves a good pun. He received his MFA/PhD from The University of Mississippi. He currently teaches at Tufts University.
