Joan Kwon Glass

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Joan Kwon Glass is author of Daughter of Three Gone Kingdoms (Perugia Press, 2024), winner of the Paterson Poetry Prize, and finalist for the Balcones Poetry Prize. Her book, Night Swim, won the 2021 Diode Editions Book Prize. Joan’s poems appear on NPR, The Slowdown, and Poetry Daily, and in Poetry, Passages North, Poetry Northwest, and Prairie Schooner. She has been awarded residencies at Vermont Studio Center and SWWIM, and teaches at writing centers such as Brooklyn Poets and Poets House.

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We Built This City: A Broken Hyangga1

Joan Kwon Glass  | 
Issue 75.2 Spring 2026

it was love for my sons that killed me