Yun Wei
Yun Wei received her MFA in poetry from Brooklyn College, and studied international relations and health economics at Georgetown and London School of Economics. Her awards include the Geneva Writers Group Literary Prizes and Himan Brown Poetry Fellowship. Her poetry and fiction are forthcoming or appear in Michigan Quarterly, the Summerset Review, Poetry Northwest, Wigleaf, and several other journals. She works in global health in Switzerland, where she relies on chocolate and tears to survive mountain sports.
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The Best Things in Life
The best things in life can’t be window wiped. They scatter at sudden movements like dandelion seeds or moths circling the unsteady porch light. They cast impossible shadows, slanting west when the sun is setting and sharp south at high noon. They don’t know the boundaries of their own shapes and go on Keto diets […]
It Was Our First Great Sorrow
And the flowers bloomed a violence. Sunflowers burned their heads off. Blue azaleas lit the match. What could be torn was torn: sepals, filaments & anthers split open, entrails hanging; every pistil ground down to the cellular level. Oh, what work it was, what work it took. From the windows of the labor ward, didn’t […]
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A Correspondence: Yun Wei & Leigh Ann Beavers
From Issue 70.2, poetry contributor Yun Wei and cover artist Leigh Ann Beavers talk nature, naming, discipline, and much more.