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ANNI LIU

Born in the year of the metal goat, ANNI LIU is the author of Border Vista (Persea Books), which won the Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize and was a New York Times Best Poetry Book of 2022. She’s the recipient of an Undocupoets Fellowship, a Gregory Djanikian Scholarship from The Adroit Journal, and residencies at Civitella Ranieri and the Anderson Center. She’s an editor at Graywolf Press.

Foreshadow Work

Published in Issue 64.2: Spring 2025 You can purchase our Spring issue here So much of what I’ve learned in therapy I first learned in poetry.They call me a “Dreamer”, but really I’m an insomniacwith night terrors, kept awake by fears of being abandonedby the Dept. of Homeland Security. There were no secure attachmentsI could form […]

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Published in Issue 64.2: Spring 2025 You can purchase our Spring issue here So much of what I’ve learned in therapy I first learned in poetry.They call me a “Dreamer”, but really I’m an insomniacwith night terrors, kept awake by fears of being abandonedby the Dept. of Homeland Security. There were no secure attachmentsI could form

On the Anniversary of Becoming a Resident Alien

Published in Issue 62.3: Summer 2023 There are many ways to resolve Come to think of it A wound refusing to scatter  A method to escape capture  Elusion was the gift her father’s silence imparted Departure a precipice buried in the body  Crenellature of sinew visible from space  And imparting, made resonant  Above, decayed embattlements

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Published in Issue 62.3: Summer 2023 There are many ways to resolve Come to think of it A wound refusing to scatter  A method to escape capture  Elusion was the gift her father’s silence imparted Departure a precipice buried in the body  Crenellature of sinew visible from space  And imparting, made resonant  Above, decayed embattlements

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