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Yongyu Chen

Yongyu Chen’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in journals including The Paris Review, Poetry, and the Washington Square Review. Their debut collection of poems, Perennial Counterpart, was a winner of the 2023 Nightboat Poetry Prize.

Mouse Song

After the dream of a white bed topped with a pool of water, where in that dream I took photos of the white bed & the water, look at the crushed flowers afloat in the water . . . that same night I dreamt I was a child again, I threw a fit, I rolled on the carpet of the ...