Poetose

Happy Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month! Celebrate with this list of literature, including Poetose author Soon Jones' THESE AREN'T MY WOODS ANYMORE, from the Community of Literary Magazines & Presses!:
https://www.clmp.org/news/a-reading-list-for-asian-pacific-american-heritage-month-2026/

With irresistible and unflinching honesty, Soon Jones' gorgeous debut collection of poems, THESE AREN'T MY WOODS ANYMORE, captures the experience of living as a mixed-race, q***r, Asian American from the rural South.

Jones' poems reflect on a deep connection to the natural landscape, burgeoning sexuality and futile attempts to hide it, the violent homophobia of their church-steeped childhood, and what can only be described as "the unrelenting hunger of the world."

These visceral poems re-live and re-imagine, question and declare. Reading them, we are reminded of how language and life can so powerfully dislocate, and yet how home may be found in re-writing a world of one's own making.