Asa Drake

Asa Drake is a Filipina/white poet in Central Florida. She is the author of Maybe the Body (Tin House, 2026) and Beauty Talk (Noemi Press, 2026), winner of the 2024 Noemi Press Book Award. A National Poetry Series finalist, she is the recipient of fellowships and awards from the 92Y Discovery Poetry Contest, Kenyon Review Residential Writers Workshop, the Rona Jaffe Foundation, Storyknife, Sundress Publications, Tin House and Idyllwild Arts. Her poems are published or forthcoming in the American Poetry Review, Georgia Review, and Poetry. A former librarian, she currently works as a teaching artist.

Addressing the Body: Mia Ayumi Malhotra’s “Mothersalt”

Asa Drake

“How many mothers, after giving birth, feel like a ghost in their own story?” writes Mia Ayumi Malhotra in Mothersalt, her second full-length poetry collection. A confrontation and a practice of embodiment, Mothersalt is shaped and reshaped by the pressures and facts of the body. When existing forms are insufficient for what must be carried […]

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