Heidi Johannesen Poon is the author of the chapbook The Good News of the Ground, for which she won the Poetry Society of America’s Chapbook Fellowship. She has received fellowships from Brown University and the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, among others.
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Heidi Johannesen Poon is the author of the chapbook The Good News of the Ground, for which she won the Poetry Society of America’s Chapbook Fellowship. She has received fellowships from Brown University and the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, among others.
and I’m still
waiting for you
outside some card shop
running the car
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