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Sloan Asakura




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Sloan Asakura (she/he/they) is a poet and memoirist from Los Angeles. They’re a ‘22 Periplus Fellow, a ‘23 Tin House Resident, and ‘26 Candidate for an MFA in Literary Arts at Brown University. Their writing is informed by conversations with trees, meditations on lineage and grief, and contemplations forward into radical joy. Their poems and lyric essays have been published in various literary magazines including Rigorous, Rogue Agent, The Lantern Review, Zone 3, Joyland and more.



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3 poems | Tupelo Quarterly
   
    August 6th, 19_5 | apparition | death in the family

From “Descent” | Joyland

blue house full of blue bodies | Zone 3

a fire on wind can make and brush blush | Zone 3

Until Mourning | The Lantern Review

From “How to Love a Headstone” | O: JA&L

    Altar | She wears me whenever I wear her jeans | Kamikaze bugs look like my hands when I’m holding onto him | In Our House | oyster shells can sing if they are empty

Self as Girl | Rogue Agent

March | Rogue Agent

Over coffee, with evaporated milk | The Mantle

From “Heritage” | Rigorous

    New Life | Lepidoptera | Hiroshima | On Daughters | first love

[S]kin | Jeopardy Magazine