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poet, writer, investor, 9ers and Giants fan

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Joined March 2009
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The #Photograph! Elizabeth Bishop recalled. The #poets were herded without apology into a back room. “In the fray,” Bishop wrote, “a few got left out.” 71 years ago this month, this photograph was published in Life magazine and immediately became iconic. slate.com/culture/2019/12/ph…
The Titans of Postwar American Poetry, Assembled in One Remarkable, Contentious Photograph

The Titans of Postwar American Poetry, Assembled in One Remarkable, Contentious Photograph

Elizabeth Bishop! W.H. Auden! Marianne Moore! … Gore Vidal?

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The Sixth and Imperfect Tense theoffingmag.com/micro/the-s… via @TheOffingMag
The Sixth and Imperfect Tense - The Offing

The Sixth and Imperfect Tense - The Offing

Micro - The Offing Magazine

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My poem is posted today in Tributaries (The Fourth River): thefourthriver.com/tributari…
WEDNESDAY, 10:52 am — The Fourth River

WEDNESDAY, 10:52 am — The Fourth River

Recess is over. The sun’s out,/ but I’ll shepherd them inside,/ close read a high modernist/ whose poems none of us likes…

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My poem "The Third Pig's American Dream" celebrating the start of the NFL season is up at Hobart. hobartpulp.com/web_features/…
THE THIRD PIG’S AMERICAN DREAM by Kenton K. Yee

THE THIRD PIG’S AMERICAN DREAM by Kenton K. Yee

The coliseum’s more variegated than a cherry- tomato burrito bowl, peony patch, or corn salsa. A hail mary isn’t a performance of prayer but of desperation. Every down is choreographed. The big...

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A little poem describing a typical night as a Caltech grad student in theoretical physics ("Pasadena, 1987", The Indianapolis Review). 🤓 theindianapolisreview.com/pa…
Pasadena, 1987

Pasadena, 1987

It’s midnight, my morning, so I go fora dose of reality. Down the stairwellof moonlight and shadows. The parking lot of serenading crickets. Rows and rows of black squares. Early classes or lab dut…

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Dinosaur Sonnet & Loafers midatlanticreview.com/2025/0…
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An Artist of the Imagined World bodyliterature.com/2025/06/2…
B O D Y | A new poem by Kenton K. Yee

B O D Y | A new poem by Kenton K. Yee

Kenton K. Yee holds a PhD in theoretical physics from UCLA and law and economics degrees from Stanford.

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"Metamorphosis" lettersjournal.com/metamorph…
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Self-Portrait in the Rearview Mirror goodriverreview.com/post/ken…
Self-Portrait in the Rear View Mirror

Self-Portrait in the Rear View Mirror

by Kenton K. Yee        

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Do Not Resus_itate jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…
DO NOT RESUS_ITATE

DO NOT RESUS_ITATE

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"Apiology" in One [Jacar Press] one.jacarpress.com/

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by Jacar Press

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"I Know a Word" summersetreview.org/25spring…
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"Beacons" summersetreview.org/25spring…
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A reading of Metamorphosis Sonnet youtube.com/watch?v=FR5f8wGp…
Metamorphosis Sonnet Kenton K Yee

Metamorphosis Sonnet Kenton K Yee

Translation and Transition issue @The Ilanot Review

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Skywatch jerseydevilpress.com/?page_i…
Skywatch

Skywatch

Kenton K. Yee My eyes that once searched for saucers now stare at the big sky tulip. There are more, of course—all beyond reach or so it seems. I am of you, it says. The tulip doesn’t actually spea…

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DO NOT RESUS_ITATE

DO NOT RESUS_ITATE

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Reincarnation Sonnet yr.olemiss.edu/piece/reincar…
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DO NOT RESUS_ITATE jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…
DO NOT RESUS_ITATE

DO NOT RESUS_ITATE

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Self-Portrait as Chopsticks

Self-Portrait as Chopsticks

by Kenton K. Yee after Charles Simic These things must have been invented by a starving thinker: how they resemble his long flamingo legs as he straddles the library urinal.

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