Li-Young Lee is the author of six books of poetry, most recently The Invention of the Darling. A collection of his new and selected mother poems, I Ask My Mother to Sing, is out this summer from Wesleyan University Press. He has received many honors for his writing including the 2024 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, a Lannan Literary Award, a Whiting Award, the American Book Award, and more. He lives in Chicago.

Find The Invention of the Darling here:

https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393867190

Find I Ask My Mother to Sing here:

https://www.weslpress.org/9780819502032/i-ask-my-mother-to-sing/

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This Week’s Prompt:

Write a poem about unrequited love for something other than a human.

Next Week’s Prompt:

Write a poem with “self-portrait” in the title that features an odd bird.

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