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Mia Kang

Mia Kang is an Oregon-born, Texas-raised writer, currently a first-year PhD student in the history of art at Yale University. A Brooklyn Poets Fellow and runner-up for the 2017 Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Contest, she is a recipient of the Academy of American Poets’ 2016 Catalina Páez and Seumas MacManus Award, among others.

Articles

Poetry

A whole body becomes no body.
A nobody becomes a body of earth.

I was a ruled body
with lines wide enough to write between.

Mónica de la Torre, Mia Kang

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