April Yee

Sep 19, 2024 | electricliterature.com | April Yee

Li-Young Lee’s first collection in a decade, The Invention of the Darling, remixes many themes from his five previous poetry books: family, exile, intimacy, and the divine. Yet somehow these plain verses feel fresh. In “Counting the Ten Thousand Things,” Lee writes,“Start over in secret, at nightwith my mother and father and the escape to… Canaan? Bethlehem? America?

Oct 20, 2023 | theoffingmag.com | Aurielle Marie |April Yee |Michelle Koufopoulos |Elena Dudum

When I close my eyes, Gaza is covered in a radiant white light. But it’s not white phosphorus—it’s warm, it’s soulful, it’s good.           When I close my eyes, there are no lines of people desperately waiting for their ration of food, water, or fuel. There are no children carrying the lifeless bodies of other, smaller children. There are no ice cream trucks used as morgues for bodies whose lives were cut short by precision bombs.

Feb 8, 2023 | theoffingmag.com | April Yee

Sep 7, 2022 | theoffingmag.com | April Yee

Apr 15, 2022 | theoffingmag.com | Mimi Wong |April Yee