To be an Asian body in America is to belong nowhere. And what people cannot hold, they push.

[[[call down a watery sky (a ritual) call on grasses stamped with Saturday shoes ...

of his dormitory to watch the bombs fall on the American naval base built over Puʻuloa Your brother your sister and four of her children were killed, too You were ...

Marisa Lin is a Chinese American poet and the author of Dream Elevator (Kernpunkt Press, 2024). In 2023, she was awarded ...

by John Denver, who my immigrant father first heard in China in 1979, Denver’s twang blaring across campus, in the halls, on the streets, ringing through every child’s freedom dream— so almost-heaven ...