DIARY: Work

A 2025 NATIONAL POETRY SERIES WINNER SELECTED BY SASHA ROQUE PIMENTEL

A collection of poems that explores questions of time, language, community, and selfhood through a contemporary Asian American lens.

DIARY heralds the arrival of a virtuosic new talent. Spanning the first five years of Yi Wei’s twenties, it chronicles their attempt to write truth in the midst of grief, isolation, and upheaval. As Wei moves candidly through self-doubt, self-denial, and self-examination, we witness both a ...