Poetry
Two
Struck from the Float Forever Held in Solution
Take Your Time
Contributor
Jason KooJASON KOO is the author of Man on Extremely Small Island (C&R Press, 2009), winner of the De Novo Poetry Prize and the Asian American Writers' Workshop Members' Choice Award for the best Asian American book of 2009. He is an Assistant Professor of English at Quinnipiac University and Founder and Executive Director of Brooklyn Poets, a non-profit literary organization celebrating the poets, poetry and literary heritage of Brooklyn. www.jasonkoopoetry.com
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