POETRY He laid his body / at my feet and covered himself / with dirt.
Only Hands
Michelle Phuong Ho
Michelle Phương Hồ is the author of Bone Symphony, forthcoming from BOA Editions in Fall 2026 and chosen by Aracelis Girmay as a Blessing the Boats Selection. Her writing has appeared in Nat Brut, POETRY, and Poetry Northwest, among others, and has been recognized with the 2024 Ninth Letter Literary Award in Poetry, the 2024 BRINK Literary Journal Award for Hybrid Writing, and the 2020 Frontier Poetry Industry Prize. She received her MFA in poetry from NYU. Born to Vietnamese refugees, she lives in New Haven, CT.
