Today's poem is
"[Beneath dark purples, new life jockeying through the cracks]"
from Black Warrior Review
Kevin Phan
is a Vietnamese-American graduate of the University of Michigan with an M.F.A. in Creative Writing in 2013 & from the University of Iowa with a B.A. in English Literature in 2005. He is a former Helen Zell Writers’ Program Postgraduate Fellow at the University of Michigan, where he won the Theodore Roethke & Bain-Swiggett Poetry Prizes. His work has been featured in Columbia Review, Poetry Northwest, Georgia Review, Conjunctions (online), Crab Orchard Review, Fence, Pleiades, Gulf Coast, Colorado Review, SubTropics, Crazyhorse, Hayden’s Ferry Review, & elsewhere. His first chapbook was published in Black Warrior Review (2019) and his first full length collection of poetry (Dears, Beloveds) was published this month by the Center for Literary Publishing.
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