advance praise for all empires must
Forthcoming April 15, 2025 from Airlie Press.
All Empires Must is a brilliant collection of persona poems whose rigor and tautness conceals their complexity. Engaging the speculative, art and architecture, and feminist critique, Mia Kang’s countertexts on the founding of Rome shift power dynamics and imagine alternate scenarios.
—Mónica de la Torre
Tough in its lyricism, savvy in vernacular, form, and ambition, Kang’s book is unforgettable.
—Ricardo Alberto Maldonado
With rare rigor and poignancy, All Empires Must animates trenchant dilemmas about power, patriarchy, and loss.
—Maggie Millner
APPARENT SIGNS: Poems & Photos
Published July 18, 2024.
Digital micro-chapbook from Ghost City Press.
This collection is part of the 2024 Ghost City Press Summer Micro-Chapbook Series.
PRAISE FOR CITY POEMS
Published January 2020. Pamphlet from ignitionpress.
How do we write to someone? City Poems engages a tradition of queer feminist modes of address between friends. For the poet writing inside the insitutional whiteness, architectures, and borders of New Haven, New York City (and the “dearest counterpart” within it) becomes a complicated and jewellike source of escape, pain, and thrill––almost a lover. These gorgeous and sharp-edged poems reckon with absence and orientation amidst a landscape of erotic, aesthetic, and political tethers.
—Emily Skillings
To say that you cannot do something, then to do it, is one of the deepest and most difficult devices in poetry: artfully, and eloquently to “grab what you can” from language and life. Mia Kang achieves this, in a debut pamphlet which is witty, elusive, and deeply endearing.
—Alison Brackenbury, Under the radar 26
…Kang’s City Poems highlights the dangers of being heartfelt and literary. The poet reminds us that sometimes Creative Writing classes are just someone’s job.