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Paul Tran

Paul Tran

Paul Tran

Paul Tran is the author of the debut poetry collection, All the Flowers Kneeling, published by Penguin. Their work appears in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Best American Poetry, and elsewhere. They earned their BA in History from Brown University and MFA in Poetry from Washington University in St. Louis. Winner of the Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Prize, as well as fellowships from the Poetry Foundation, Stanford University, and the National Endowment for the Arts, Paul is an Assistant Professor of English and Asian American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. (Source)

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Poems by Paul Tran

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Against Redemption by Paul Tran

“For so long, I envied the engineering of birds. / Descendants of dinosaurs, original refugees, / they survived millions of years on this planet, / saw it burn and rise from its delicious burning.” — Paul Tran

Poems curated by Paul Tran

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Canary by Rita Dove

"If you can’t be free, be a mystery." — Rita Dove