Anthony Tao‘s poetry appears in journals such as The Cortland Review, Prairie Schooner, Borderlands, Frontier, Kartika Review, Cha, Poetry East West, among other places, plus an anthology of China writing entitled While We’re Here. He has a “poetry x music” album called The Last Tribe on Earth, which features his original poetry with original compositions on the classical guitar by Liane Halton. He lives in Beijing, where he is managing editor of the New York-based online media company SupChina.

Find more here:

http://anthonytao.com/

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This Week's Prompt:

Homophones are pairs of words which are pronounced the same way but have different meanings, such as “ball” and “bawl.” Write a poem that contains at least one pair of homophones.

Next Week’s Prompt:

Give your poem a utopian or dystopian setting.

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