POEMS

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The Color of FlightThe Cincinnati Review
where you were carriedThe Cimarron Review
Our First Time Making Love After the Funeral*The Atlanta Review
The Facts About Peppers**The Midwest Review
God or Gut InstinctCream City Review
When Songbirds Take FlightBacopa Literary Review and 35 Tips for Writing Powerful Prose Poems by Kaye Linden
Death to VocabularyTouchstone Journal
*Pushcart Prize nominee**Finalist for The Midwest Review poetry contest

ONLINE

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On Being the Only Asian in Small-Town KansasGulf Stream Magazine
Rag of a WomanGulf Stream Magazine
New Year's DayImage Journal
CounterpointRiver City Poetry
BuckRiver City Poetry
SkychordRiver City Poetry--------------------------------------------------------------------The Double-Sink Bathroom (creative nonfiction)The Coil (Alternating Current)

New Year’s Day - Image JournalSuffering, I once believed, was a human privilege, but in that moment I watched as God died, as God witnessed.

On Being the Only Asian in Small-Town Kansas by Shannon NakaiIn my gym shoes, I drew the striped blocks of my Japanese name, strained and skewered during roll call until I sounded like an exotic bird or an Asian cell phone brand. People used to…

The Double-Sink BathroomShannon Nakai talks about the separations of literary and graduate classes by bathroom sinks.

Shannon NakaiCounterpoint Walking in-step to the fall of rain, to the pace of thoughts to my husband’s hands kneading music on the keys, Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini &nbsp…

Rag of a Woman I get very territorial about my identity. Ruth Negga, Vogue 2016 Bred on land where everything grows but change, I unfold the tattered geograp…