Our poetry editor, Joe Pan, has selected two poems by Monica Ong for his series that brings original poetry to the screens of Hyperallergic readers.
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These two works can be found in Monica Ong’s new book Silent Anatomies (2015), selected by Joy Harjo as winner of the Kore Press First Book Award.
Monica Ong is a Kundiman Poetry Fellow and a visual designer based in Connecticut.
Readers are encouraged to submit 3–5 poems as a PDF to Joe Pan for consideration at poetry@hyperallergic.com.
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