Sloan Asakura - Poet, Memoirist | Brown University MFA Candidate


Publications


  Bellingham Review (forthcoming)
 

  Rawhead (forthcoming)

         war in the window

  2026 ONLY POEMS Poet of the Year Award & Interview
          
         excerpt from “Saturn Makes Noise” | there was once a girl in the family | there was once a family in the girl | c-ptsd | in the dark with a big stick | on space and the space between | god of loneliness | what i know | dead girl sees the future | dreams, not mine | haunting

 TriQuarterly

         designs of survival

 Zócalo 
   
          ICE eats the neighborhood

 The Rumpus 
       
          prognosis of sound

 BRINK 
    
          signs of life 

 Sunspot Lit | 2026 Geminga Contest Finalist

        ! check the rear seats !

 2024 CRAFT Memoir Excerpt & Essay Contest

          Excerpt of “Window” | Judged by Donald Quist

 Tupelo Quarterly

          August 6th, 19_5 | apparition | death in the family

 Joyland

          Excerpt of “Descent”

 Zone 3
   
          blue house full of blue bodies | a fire on wind can make any brush blush

 The Lantern Review

          until mourning

 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

 Rogue Agent

          self as girl

 Rogue Agent

          march

 The Mantle

         over coffee, with evaporated milk

 Rigorous

          new life | lepidoptera | hiroshima | on daughters | first love

 Jeopardy Magazine

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