Sample Poems and Prose

  • 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.”

  • 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.

  • 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

  • "Truths"

    Benjamin Boone. (2020). The Poets Are Gathering. The Orchard Enterprises.

    “Truths (feat. Lee Herrick)” released on October 16, 2020.

  • "Abecedarian Love Song for Street Food"

    Boom California (online)

    Published April 2020.

  • Lee Herrick reads at Kearney Street Workshop

    Kearney Street Workshop, San Francisco, CA

    Recorded March 2019.

  • Lee Herrick reads at E.P. Foster Library

    Ventura County Library, Ventura, CA

    Recorded July 2017.

  • Two Poems

    Hyphen magazine (online)

    “Echolocation” and “Repertoire” published January 2017.

  • "Letter to America"

    Terrain.org

    Published December 2016.

  • Lee Herrick Reads at San Francisco State University's Poetry Center

    CSU San Francisco, Poetry Center

    Recorded November 2015.

  • "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)

  • "If We Are What We Eat"

    Sacramento Poetry Center

    A reading with Alice Anderson. (April 2013)

  • Two Poems

    Mascara Literary Review

    “Kwi Ch’on” and “Self-Portrait.” (2012)

  • 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)

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