Mai-Linh K. Hong, JD, PhD
Continental Drift:
Poems
WINNER OF THE 2025 TRIO AWARD
“To survive is to refuse / death, but how / to tell refusal from retreat?” In the 2025 Trio Award winning poetry collection Continental Drift, Mai-Linh Hong honors and explores the geography that made and continues to shape her ancestors’ story, her own story, and the future story of her descendants. From Vietnam to Virginia, California to Thailand, Hong plumbs the fault lines, crosses the oceans, crystallizing moments into meaning. Whether luxuriating in the small joys of nature and of existence, or marveling at the process of geological shift, these artfully crafted poems bring the reader into the complex promises and griefs of migration, navigation, and claiming space in a postcolonial world.
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Coming July 1, 20226 from Trio House Press.
Poems
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​Poems are forthcoming in Copper Nickel, Ploughshares, The Minnesota Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, and The Santa Clara Review.
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“American Sonnet Upon Finding an Old Report Card and American Sonnet Whenever [Gaza/Afghanistan/Vietnam/etc.] Gets Called a Land of Bombs, The Offing
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Winter Visitors (erasure of Thoreau's Walden), The Maine Review 11.2
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What we lost may come ashore, Everybody Cousin, and Harvest Moon with Wildfire, Waxwing 34
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Field Notes From Aliens Who Float (Poetry Contest Runner-Up), Hayden's Ferry Review
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to my smallest ancestor, EXODUS AFTER THOUGHTS x Kaya Press
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Airport and Third Country Resettlement, ANMLY 40
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Plum Jam (Best of the Net Nominee), Crab Orchard Review 26.2
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​Field Trip, Wildness 37
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The Road Where My Grandfather Died, They Rise Like a Wave: An Anthology of Asian American Women Poets edited by Christine Kitano & Alicia Pyrmohamed
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