Karen An-Hwei Lee…
December 1, 2010
author of “Psalm V” and “Hunger and “Solace” from “The Hunger Issue” – has two beautiful poems in the November issue of Poetry.
You can read “Prayer for a Bamboo-Flowering Famine” here.
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