Monica Sok

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Monica Sok is the author of A Nail the Evening Hangs On (Copper Canyon Press, 2020) and Year Zero (Poetry Society of America, 2016). She has received fellowships from the NEA, Kundiman, Hedgebrook, and others.

Poems by Monica Sok

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Monica Sok

ABC for Refugees

Bodhisattvas at the Beach in November

Second Generation Ars Poetica

ABC for Refugees

Fred Sasaki Interviews Ashley M. Jones

Kimiko Hahn vs. Portals

Monica Sok Reads “ABC for Refugees”