Sample Poems and Prose
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Various Poems
The Poetry Foundation
Includes “The Impossible Replication of Desire,” “How to Spend a Birthday,” “My California,” “What is Sacred,” and “Three Dreams of Korea: Notes on Adoption.”
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Various Poems
Academy of American Poets
Includes “My California,” “Flight,” “How Music Stays in the Body,” and “The Birds Outside My Window Sing During A Pandemic,” which was originally published in MiGoZine, March 2020, and Princeton Writes.
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Breaking the Dangerous Habit of Silence
Capital & Main
Lee’s essay on how Asian American poets used poetry as a weapon against hate during Covid-era attacks. Published January 2024. -
"The Impossible Replication of Desire"
Poetry Out Loud
The National Endowment for the Arts
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"Truths"
Benjamin Boone. (2020). The Poets Are Gathering. The Orchard Enterprises.
“Truths (feat. Lee Herrick)” released on October 16, 2020.
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"Abecedarian Love Song for Street Food"
Boom California (online)
Published April 2020.
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Lee Herrick reads at Kearney Street Workshop
Kearney Street Workshop, San Francisco, CA
Recorded March 2019.
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Lee Herrick reads at E.P. Foster Library
Ventura County Library, Ventura, CA
Recorded July 2017.
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Two Poems
Hyphen magazine (online)
“Echolocation” and “Repertoire” published January 2017.
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"Letter to America"
Terrain.org
Published December 2016.
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Lee Herrick Reads at San Francisco State University's Poetry Center
CSU San Francisco, Poetry Center
Recorded November 2015.
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"Gardening Secrets of the Dead"
Asian American Writers Workshop, NYC
Curated by Jennifer Kwon Dobbs for “Tending the Speculative: Poems from the Asian American Adoptee Diaspora.” (July 2013)
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"If We Are What We Eat"
Sacramento Poetry Center
A reading with Alice Anderson. (April 2013)
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Two Poems
Mascara Literary Review
“Kwi Ch’on” and “Self-Portrait.” (2012)
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Various Poems
From the Fishhouse
Curated by co-founders Camille Dungy and Matt O’Donnell. Includes “Salvation,” “Ars Poetica,” “Dancing Near a Body of Water,” “In the Tower District, Fresno,” “What Is Sacred,” and “A Thousand Saxophones” (2008)