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Asa Drake

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Asa Drake is a Filipina/white poet in Central Florida. She is the author of "Maybe the Body" (Tin House, 2026) and "Beauty Talk" (Noemi Press, 2026), winner of the 2024 Noemi Press Book Award. A National Poetry Series finalist, she is the recipient of fellowships and awards from the 92Y Discovery Poetry Contest, Kenyon Review Residential Writers Workshop, the Rona Jaffe Foundation, Storyknife, Sundress Publications, Tin House and Idyllwild Arts. Her poems can be found on The Slowdown Podcast, The American Poetry Review, and Poetry Daily. A former librarian, she currently works as a teaching artist. ...more

Average rating: 3.88 · 177 ratings · 92 reviews · 3 distinct worksSimilar authors
Maybe the Body: Poems

3.86 avg rating — 166 ratings — published 2026 — 2 editions
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One Way to Listen

4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Beauty Talk

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Asa Drake and 3 other people liked Carey 's review of Maybe the Body: Poems:
Maybe the Body by Asa  Drake
"Sealey Challenge 2026: 2/31

To be honest, this collection was both stylistically and thematically different from what I expected based on the synopsis. I was initially a little hesitant in the first part as the poems have a great deal of ambiguity to" Read more of this review »
" Thank you so much! "
Maybe the Body by Asa  Drake
"One of the most pleasurable reads — from the first page, the speaker and poems and poet know exactly what they’re doing. The candor, the confidence. Also a gorgeous exploration of family history, self, place, language. Incredible. "
Asa Drake and 2 other people liked Meaghan's review of Maybe the Body: Poems:
Maybe the Body by Asa  Drake
"Beautiful, beautiful poetry.

My favorites from the collection:
-"To someone who's heard I love you too many times" beginning with "Another way of saying"
-"Disagreeable Aspects of Hyphenation"
-"Tonight, a Woman"
-"To someone who's said I love you too ma" Read more of this review »
Maybe the Body by Asa  Drake
"What a heartachingly beautiful collection of poems.

I see everyone quoting "it's so hard to write about love without writing about the country we live in", but I think what hit me the hardest was "everything about me is an affect of failed language"," Read more of this review »
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Fifty Mothers by Preeti Vangani
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Night Owl: Poems
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