In Leona Sevick’s poem, a daughter of Korean immigrants grapples with the loneliness that can reside at cultural intersections.
Leona Sevick
About Leona Sevick
Leona Sevick is the 2017 Press 53 Poetry Award winner for her first full-length book of poems, Lion Brothers. Her work appears in The Journal, Little Patuxent Review, North American Review, Barrow Street, Quiddity, and other journals. She has work forthcoming in The Golden Shovel Anthology: New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks (Univ. of Arkansas Press, 2017, foreward by Terrance Hayes). She is provost at Bridgewater College in Virginia and can be reached at leonasevick.com