Teow Lim Goh

Photo Courtesy of Kit Hedman, Photographer

Teow Lim Goh is the author of Islanders (Bower House, 2016), a volume of poems on the history of Chinese exclusion at the Angel Island Immigration Station. Her work has been featured in Tin House, Catapult, PBS NewsHour, Colorado Public Radio, and The New Yorker.

Press

Interviews

• Coldiron, Katherine and Teow Lim Goh. "Books I Hate (And Also Some I Like): With Teow Lim Goh." Entropy. 19 April 2017.

• Deskins, Sally and Teow Lim Goh. Les Femmes Folles. 9 February 2015. 

• Hudgins, Jessica and Teow Lim Goh. "Teow Lim Goh Reads Three Poems by Ansel Elkins." Sundress Lyric Essentials. 2019.

• "Teow Lim Goh Talks About Embodiment and Writing Faraway Places." Rogue Agent. 2021.

Features

• "Poet and Critic Teow Lim Goh Talks About the Making of her New Book, Faraway Places." ed. Ernest Hilbert. E-Verse Radio. 2021.

Further Reading

Select Poetry from Faraway Places

• "After the Storm," "Ascent," & "At the Sea." The Collapsar. 24 August 2016.

• "Passages." The Common. 30 April 2018.

• "Archives." The Offing. 14 February 2018.

• "Cottonwoods." Open Letters Monthly. 2015.

• “Autobiography,” “Birdsong,” “Looking at the Sky,” “Open Road,” & “Split.” Rigorous. July 2019.

• "Petals." Rogue Agent. 

• "Mirage." The Scofield. 2018.

• "At the Zoo," "Black Orchid," & "Faraway Places." Tinderbox Poetry Journal.

• "Desert Notes," "January," & "Rainforest." Unlikely Stories. 2019.

• "Stars" is on display in the "Ridgway Alley Poems," a public art installation in Ridgway, Colorado.

Faraway Places

June 2021

Faraway Places resides in the spaces between the wild and the tamed, from orchid gardens and immense seas to caged birds and high alpine landscapes. It resists narrative and instead inhabits the residues of experience. It may be a private dictionary: “Those / who know the lore can use them / to find their way / in the world.” Haunted and searching, these poems navigate the distances between light and shadow, secrets and silence.

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