Blue Pigeons – Mixed Media by Jinx Davis. All rights reserved by JustJinx.com Yeng Chheanly’s visual poetry seems serene and calming when viewed. Yet beneath each piece, he is reckoning with the difficult questions that societies must ask if they are to...
Editor’s note: We hope you read this short piece out loud to discover its eloquence in rhythm and sound. Written while thinking of the images in the”First They Killed My Father” movie, it speaks to contemporary times throughout troubled...
The Orange Silk Dress by Sithis Yim Samnang Between our dreams fear in realities meet the unfortunate bravery captured an uncalled treachery. My mother sewed a dress made of orange silk wounded her hand and her mouth with needle made weapon, to quilt the...
From the publisher Copper Canyon Press: In this staggering poetry debut, Monica Sok illuminates the experiences of Cambodian diaspora and reflects on America’s role in escalating the genocide in Cambodia. A Nail the Evening Hangs On travels from Phnom Penh to Siem...
Thanks to my fellow poet YENG Chheangly, I have learned to admire CHIN Meas. I invited him to our Khmer Literature Festival in 2017 and he has returned for the following years. Both his life and his personhood deserve our attention. Many of his poems have a Buddhist...
I see you You’re a soldier A wanderer and a beggar You beg at bus stations and in the market By clasping your palms together. Young people like me ask Whether you’re...
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