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Diana Khoi Nguyen

Diana Khoi Nguyen is currently a PhD candidate in creative writing at the University of Denver. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in Poetry, American Poetry Review, PEN America and The Iowa Review.

Articles

Poetry

uncontained even
water abandons i
tself; there is mys
tery inside migra
tion

Diana Khoi Nguyen
Poetry

Around a pool of sorghum

thief ants lower their mouths and twitch in the feed

                        each animal growing by

accretion,

Diana Khoi Nguyen

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