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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.
Poetry
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.
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