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.
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Select Poetry from Faraway Places
"Cottonwoods." Open Letters Monthly. 2015.
"At the Zoo," "Black Orchid," & "Faraway Places." Tinderbox Poetry Journal.
"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.