June 9, 2024

Kathryn Hargett-Hsu

John Doe is a passionate poet whose work explores the depths of human emotion and experience.

Kathryn Hargett-Hsu is the author of Good Listener (2024), winner of the Frontier Poetry Breakthrough Chapbook Contest. She is Senior Poetry Fellow at Washington University in St. Louis. Find her in Best New Poets, Poetry Daily, Pleiades, The Hopkins Review, Sixth Finch, swamp pink, The Margins, and elsewhere.

Sometimes I hallucinate God

is a monarchic bloodstain

down the front of my shirt.

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I don’t think a poem has to answer every question it poses—in fact, I think it’s wonderful to have a little mystery and ambiguity—but I don’t like unproductive confusion.

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