Democracy depends on the free exchange of ideas. Help sustain it with a tax-deductible donation today.
E.J. Koh is the recipient of the 2016 Pleiades Press Editors Prize for her forthcoming collection of poems A Lesser Love. Her poems and translations have appeared in World Literature Today, TriQuarterly, Southeast Review, Columbia Review, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from Kundiman, The MacDowell Colony, Napa Valley Writers’ Conference, Vermont Studio Center, and the Jack Straw Writers Program. She lives in Seattle.
At Icicle Creek, I find the fox dead and gray.
I see a woman standing over his corpse.
Her tail whips behind her, stirring air.
I pray to be harmless.
A political and literary forum, independent and nonprofit since 1975. Registered 501(c)(3) organization. Learn more about our mission
For National Poetry Month, sign up for our newsletter and get a digital copy of our out-of-print chapbook Poems for Political Disaster—with work by Jorie Graham, Ilya Kaminsky, Solmaz Sharif, Juan Felipe Herrera, and much more.
Newsletter subscribers get our latest essays, reading lists, and exclusive editorial content (plus 10% off our entire store).
For National Poetry Month, sign up for our newsletter and get a digital copy of our out-of-print chapbook Poems for Political Disaster.