City Poems (2020)
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“How do we write to someone? City Poems engages a tradition of queer feminist modes of address between friends. For the poet writing inside the insitutional whiteness, architectures, and borders of New Haven, New York City (and the “dearest counterpart” within it) becomes a complicated and jewellike source of escape, pain, and thrill––almost a lover. These gorgeous and sharp-edged poems reckon with absence and orientation amidst a landscape of erotic, aesthetic, and political tethers.” – Emily Skillings
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Review by Alison Brackenbury in Under the radar 26
“To say that you cannot do something, then to do it, is one of the deepest and most difficult devices in poetry: artfully, and eloquently to “grab what you can” from language and life. Mia Kang achieves this, in a debut pamphlet which is witty, elusive, and deeply endearing.”
Review by Nell Prince in Sphinx Review
“…Kang’s City Poems highlights the dangers of being heartfelt and literary. The poet reminds us that sometimes Creative Writing classes are just someone’s job.”
Interview with Brainard Carey for Yale Radio
POETRY & ETC.
“Abracadabra,” Poem-a-Day, guest editor Claudia Rankine, December 8, 2023
“Tony Reflects on Form,” 3rd place winner of the Rising Poet Prize, Palette Poetry, August 2023
“Samoa Field,” wildness, April 2022
“Theresa, I Miss You (Space, Steps), The Rumpus, April 2022
“About,” Cincinnati Review miCRos, March 2022
“Above (View from Birdly),” Gulf Coast 34.1, Winter/Spring 2022
“Syncope at the Clit Club,” Poetry Northwest, Summer and Fall 2021
“Paranoia (Pas de Deux),” Poetry Northwest Online, March 2021
“Theresa, I Miss You (Plan for Algiers),” Pleiades, Summer 2020
“Beside the Point,” wildness, Feb. 2020
“Howard K. Hill Funeral Services,” Ritual and Capital anthology, Wendy's Subway/Bard Graduate Center, Jan. 2020
“Theresa, I Miss You (Arsenale Veneto),” OCTOBER 170
“Beside Myself, Rehearsal,” Columbia Review, Fall 2019
“Civitas” (reprint), Soul Sister Revue: A Compilation (Jamii Publishing, 2019)
“Hold on, let me take the safety off,” Company Gallery, commission for Tiona Nekkia McClodden’s exhibition “Hold on, let me take the safety off,” November 2019
“on this day / or any other,” POETRY, March 2019
“Didactic of a Column with Helical Frieze,” Washington Square Review, Fall 2018
“Civitas,” POETRY, Sep. 2018
“So I Bought a Little City...” and “What Happens Now: Parable of a Roman Outcome” (reprint), PEN America, June 2018
“At the Column of Marcus Aurelius,” “Mars Falls: A User's Guide,” and “Roman Couplets,” Narrative, April 2018
“Apelles Rides Off into the Sunset,” Iowa Review Online, April 2018
“Conclusion and Findings,” Another Document project by Catalina Ouyang, Feb. 2018
“Graduate Student, Age 27, with a History of Sexual Harassment by Professors and Employers, Attends a Poetry Reading Four Days After the Tax Heist, Falling for a Man Who Isn't Her Lover, Temperature 54º F, New Haven, CT, December 5, 2017,” Rattle Poets Respond, Dec. 2017
“No One I Know Runs the Marathon (Two Days Before Election Day),” Love Within Love anthology, Spoonbill Books, Dec. 2017
“Livy Theorizes the Social,” “Rhea Silvia, Buried Alive (Figure to Ground),” “Mars Falls / Honeymoon Suite,” “Twin II,” and “Auspice,” Boston Review, Sep. 2017
“Apotheosis of X and the Author” and “Proof of Zero,” Sugar House Review, Fall/Winter 2017
“How Can the Body Cross a Wall?” and “Rhea Silvia Says Yes,” Palimpsest, Fall 2017
“Twin” and “[Rhea Silvia in Her Cell],” Poetry Northwest, Summer/Fall 2017
Poet of the Week interview and “In Media Red” (reprint), Brooklyn Poets, June 2017
“So I Bought a Little City...” and “What Happens Now: Parable of a Roman Outcome," PEN Poetry Series, June 2017
“Aurelian I,” Hermeneutic Chaos Journal, May 2017
“In Media Red” and “In a Roman Story,” The Margins, April 2017
“Ark,” Poets.org (for the Academy of American Poets College Prize), Sep. 2016
Interviews
“Conversations with Contributors: Christopher Kempf,” The Adroit Journal Blog, February 2018
“A Picture of Us: An Interview with J.P. Chan,” The Margins, July 2014