Joshua Nguyen is the author of Come Clean, winner of the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry, the Writers' League of Texas Discovery Award, and the Mississippi Institute of Arts & Letters Poetry Award. He is also the author of the chapbooks American Lục Bát for My Mother and Hidden Labor & The Naked Body. He has received fellowships from Kundiman, The Kenyon Review, Tin House, Sundress Academy for the Arts, and the Vermont Studio Center. He is a humor editor for The Offing Mag and co-organizes Growing From Our Roots: An Asian Debut Author Showcase. He received his MFA and PhD from the University of Mississippi and currently teaches at Boston College and Tufts University.

• Sonnet for the Hands Around My ThroatForeword[ ]Manuscript Epistolary HaibunAubade on the Again-Again of My MorningClean SonnetHow to Write the Final Note to Your LoverSelf-Portrait as Frozen BlueberryHaibun for the Asian Body Doing Infinite Push-Ups in a Mississippi FieldSpine Decompression Double SonnetThe Last Poet on Earth Not in TherapyShoulder Day Motivational Speech by SisyphusSonnet for the Praying MantisOn Your Last Set of Weighted Lunges, You See Your Reflection on the Mississippi Field Beyond the WindowTrue Failure Sonnet"You Sank My Destroyer!": How Harold & Kumar Goes to White Castle Influences the Writer's Relationship to Assimilation, the Body, and WhitenessPost-Apocalypse PossumThe Last Poet on Earth Not into AstrologyHaibun by the LoonHow to Write an SOS for Your Loneliness to Place on Your PorchNocbadeRest Day: Coffee / Coffee / Love / LoveChest DayCicada as Personal TrainerI Wish, How I Wish GhazalHow to Write a Letter to Your Resident from the Perspective of the House Read This Poem Only OnceCarpenterSestina for Each Set in the GymArs Poetica HaibunLeg Day on SundaySpine Compression Mirrored SonnetBeefcake GravitasYou Live in the AftermathOne More Sonnet to My 14-Year-Old Self"What would our mothers write about us . . . "Abandoned DuplexInstructions for Burning Your KitchenThe Loneliest I've Ever Felt Is Right Now [Aubade at 11:10 AM]Sonnet Beginning with Mark Wahlberg Ending in SpiteLocker Room GhazalRest Day: BirdingSomeday, I'll Loathe Joshua NguyenAmerican Lục Bát for the End of the World, [at Long Last, at Least We Have Our Language?] or the Final Sonnet Artifact to Be Found Beneath All the Rubble[ ]Notes & Acknowledgments