Nicole W. Lee

#AWP26! Check out this virtual reading, "Myths & the Motherland: Multiplicity in the Chinese Diaspora," (Wed., March 4) featuring a terrific lineup of writers, including Acre #poet #MCynthiaCheung! 🖊️📚🎉 Register at www.awpwriter.org.

FEBRUARY INTERVIEW with ASA DRAKE Perhaps it’s no surprise that the first of Asa Drake’s two debuts, Maybe the Body from Tin House, is flush with the fruits and flora of a flamboyant garden, given that she lives in rural Florida. N…

So glad that one of my first interviews was with @nicolewlee.bsky.social , a poet I deeply admire and whose work has shaped my own. Her questions offered me so much insight into my own writing process. fourwayreview.com/february-int...

I'm thrilled to share that my poem "Here Is Where We Meet," a 28-page conversation with the stars, was a finalist for the 2025 @tupelopress.bsky.social Poetry Prize! Deeply grateful to the constellation of editors, poets & readers who walked with this poem 💜✨ www.tupeloquarterly.com/poetry/nicol...

An excerpt from “Nocturne” by Oliver Baez Bendorf

A headshot of Oliver Baez Bendorf

“Today’s poem carries that same energy of self-discovery, inevitable change, and an extravagance of living,” shares Major in today’s encore episode.

Read “Nocturne” by Oliver Baez Bendorf @oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social‬: bit.ly/3IUaqAj

When I think of my life and all its secret colors, I feel like bursting into tears.

—Albert Camus

SONG FROM ANOTHER TIME A song from another time survived with me. It follows me wherever I go. It rushes after me. I crumple it up, a small piece of paper, and throw it away. But I peel the paper open and smooth it out whenever I remember one of my dead friends.

The book on a wood table.

A song from another time
survived with me.

—Dunya Mikhaïl, from THE IRAQI NIGHTS (2014), translated by Kareem James Abu-Zeid.

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Of course Gemini season means two poems coming out on the same day! Finally, this weird and wacky love poem is out in the world! Thank you to Waxwing Lit Journal for giving it a home, and to all the helping hands over the years 🐝⛈️🦗🌱🍭🌸

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Bosphorus Approximations Sometimes I wonder if belonging is to be approached gently, as if an abandoned thing.

It feels really special for this poem to have found a home in @aaww-nyc.bsky.social's #TheMargins at the tail end of #aapiheritagemonth! Many thanks to the team for looking after this little zuihitsu on the Bosphorus 🕌🫖🌹🐈 #PoetryTuesday

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First post, better late than never! I’ll be reading alongside Angela Siew, M. Cynthia Cheung, and Diana Cao in an evening of poetry as part of Massachusetts Poetry Festival’s virtual program — would love to see you there! 5-6pm ET Sun. 27th April!

Register here (free): tinyurl.com/mythsmotherl...