Eric Tran

Eric Tran is a queer Vietnamese poet and the author of Mouth, Sugar, and Smoke, winner of the Oregon Book Award and finalist for the Thom Gunn Award, and The Gutter Spread Guide to Prayer. His poetry is featured in All Things Considered, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and Best of the Net, among other publications. He is a psychiatrist in Portland, Oregon, where he also organizes the PDX Queer Asians Social Meetup.

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At the AAPI Support Group Zoom, Everyone Waves Goodbye with Both Hands

Eric Tran  | 
Issue 74.1-2 Spring 2025

In that Zoom, I cried /
when I saw faces that looked like mine. Faces that looked at mine.