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An image of poet Tiana Nobile, a Korean adoptee writer with a sidecut, short hair with blonde tips, and a yellow bandana around her neck. Next to her is the cover of her book, Cleave, which is all white and features a black and white image of a split egg.

As an Asian American, the incessant insistence of the question “Where are you from?” often followed by “No, where are you really from?” can be so exhausting. In the poem, I can finally confront this question and push back. Tell a different story.

Apogee Journal

10 Apr 2021

Celebrate Poetry Month with Apogee!

Join Apogee Journal as we celebrate the magic of reading and writing poetry for the full month of April. This month, we’ll be featuring regular writing prompts, a reading by...

Apogee Journal

22 Feb 2021

Announcing Apogee Issue 15

Apogee Issue 15 features work by Kimberly Alidio, Hari Alluri, LaKela Brown, Dannielle Bowman, Bryan Byrdlong, Jade Cho, Chantal Feitosa, Jenna Gribbon, Karen Gu, Joselia Rebekah Hughes, Maryam Kazeem, Mihee...

Black and white image of Puerto Rican poet Salvador Villanueva as a young man. He has coarse black hair and beard. He wears a white button-down shirt with rolled up sleeves at the elbows. It seems he is gesturing to someone off-screen in the middle of conversation.

Gustavo Rivera

28 Dec 2020

The Anti-Poetry of Salvador Villanueva

I found Villanueva to be ahead of his time, working a craft that would be called “meta-modern” by some, an innovative style in which the reader participates in the process of the author’s work. I was immediately taken by its apparent simplicity, which caused his work to stand apart from most of the poetry I knew from my island. I would later find out that he was ahead of his time in the art of letters in Puerto Rico.

Anya Lewis-Meeks

30 Nov 2020

A Very Apogee Gift Guide

As the holidays approach, in conjunction with Giving Tuesday, we at Apogee Journal are coming at you with a Gift Guide! To learn more about us and the work we...