In the photograph, wildflowers everywhere, I am seven years old. In Northern Michigan, sand shifts with my father’s mood. We are standing in the lake, water shimmering around our ankles. Minnows in their nervous schools dart, always toward each other, breathing in what other species breathe out below the surface. That summer, I believed all […]
Joan Kwon Glass
JOAN KWON GLASS is the author of Night Swim, winner of the Diode Book Prize (Diode Editions, 2022) and two chapbooks, How to Make Pancakes for a Dead Boy (Harbor Editions, 2022) and If Rust Can Grow on the Moon (Milk and Cake Press, 2022). She serves as poet laureate for Milford, CT, Editor in Chief for Harbor Review and as a writing instructor for Brooklyn Poets, Corporeal, and Hudson Valley Writers Center. Joan’s poems have been featured or are forthcoming in The Slowdown, Poetry Northwest, Ninth Letter, Rattle, Tahoma Literary Review, Prairie Schooner, Salamander, and elsewhere. She has been a finalist for the University of Akron Poetry Prize, the Subnivean Award, the Lumiere Review Award and the Sundress Academy Broadside Contest. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize & Sundress Best of the Net.
