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POETRY A seed that gave birth WIT TEA I am the lamb’s wool and the wolf crying beneath thin skin. Lick between my ribs.
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.
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), winner of the 2021 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry, and the chapbook, American Lục Bát for My Mother (Bull City Press, 2021). He is a Vietnamese-American writer, a collegiate national poetry slam champion (CUPSI), and a native Houstonian. He has received residency from Kundiman, Tin House, Sundress Academy For The Arts, and the Vermont Studio Center. He has been published in The Acentos Review, The Texas Review, Auburn Avenue, Crab Orchard, and Gulf Coast. He is a bubble tea connoisseur, and loves a good pun. He is a PhD student at The University of Mississippi, where he also received his MFA.