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.

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

Forthcoming June 2021

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