Bunkong Tuon is a Cambodian American writer, Pushcart Prize—winning poet, and professor at Union College in Schenectady, in NY. He is the author of several poetry collections. In 2024, he published What Is Left, a Greatest Hits chapbook from Jacar Press, and Koan Khmer, his debut novel from Northwestern UP/Curbstone Books. He lives with his wife and children in Upstate New York.

Other poems by Bunkong Tuon in Verse Daily:
May 2, 2024:   "Letter To My Unborn Son" "I can tell you about strength...."
July 24, 2023:   "What is Left" "What is left after war is the gratitude for what is left...."

Other poems on the web by Bunkong Tuon:
"After the News of Your Passing"
"My Children Teach Me How to Sing to the Moon"
Four poems
Three poems
Two poems
Five poems
Two poems
Two poems
"Winning Poem"
"Upon Hearing News of Another Asian Beaten by a Black Person"
"Confession of a Tiger Dad"
Five poems
Two poems
"After Seeing the Photo of the Drowning Deaths of Migrant Oscar Alberto Martinez Ramirez and his nearly 2-year-old daughter, Valeria"
"My Daughter, the Snow Bomb"
Ten poems

Three poems
Three poems

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Other poems by Shō Poetry Journal in Verse Daily:
March 1, 2025:   "After the Gulls" by Jo Bear
February 28, 2025:   "The Starlings Were You" by Robert Okaji
November 10, 2024:   "When We Invented Gunpowder, We Were Trying to Invent the Elixir of Life" by Dorsey Craft
November 6, 2024:   "Midwestern Reunion" by Em Townsend
October 28, 2024:   "It's Important I Remember That Being Alone and Being Lonely Aren't the Same Thing—" by Cortney Lamar Charleston
October 25, 2024:   "Little League, America" by Jose Hernandez Diaz
April 30, 2024:   "Until" by Robert Okaji
April 29, 2024:   "Not My Country" by Andrew Payton
March 17, 2024:   "How to Cook a Wolf" by Nathan Xavier Osorio
March 15, 2024:   "How to Eat Like a King" by Jane Zwart
March 11, 2024:   "Deer Woman" by Bunkong Tuon
March 7, 2024:   "Caretaker" by Faith Gómez Clark

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