"Dent" | /// Academy of American Poets |
"Blind Turn," "Chisel," "Blur Atlas" | /// diode |
"Runaway," "Essay on Need" | /// swamp pink |
"Essay on Class" | /// Frontier Poetry |
"I TRIED EVERYTHING" | /// Best New Poets 2022 (print) |
"Intuition" | /// Ran Off with the Star Bassoon |
"Parable of the Unclean Land" | /// THRUSH |
"Prodigy" | /// Post Road |
"Inheritance" | /// Asian American Writers' Workshop |
"After Escape" | /// GASHER |
"Ghost Town, Ohio" | /// Kenyon Review |
"Ascent" | /// SWWIM Every Day, Best of the Net 2022 |
"Origin Myth" | /// Tinderbox Poetry |
(nominated for Best of the Net) | |
"Heaven" | /// Palette Poetry |
"Simple Machines" | /// Leonard Milberg Poetry Prize (grand prize) |
"Notes on Transmutation" | /// Muzzle Magazine |
"Pine Street" | /// Split Lip Magazine |
(nominated for Best New Poets) | |
"A Self-Help Book Says" | /// DIALOGIST |
"Nostalgia is the Prettiest Liar" | /// diode |
"Poem in Which I Do Not Become a Bird" | /// Up The Staircase Quarterly |
(nominated for Best of the Net) |
Gaia Rajan is the author of the chapbooks Moth Funerals (Glass Poetry Press 2020) and Killing It (Black Lawrence Press 2022). His work is published in the Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day, Best New Poets, the 2022 Best of the Net anthology, The Kenyon Review, Post Road, AAWW, and elsewhere. He is a poetry reader for Poetry Northwest, intern at Copper Canyon Press, and former intern at Poets House. Gaia lives in Pittsburgh and New York, though he grew up in Ohio.
I'm available for readings, interviews, manuscript consultations/editing, talks, collaborations, etc. here & at grajanpoetry [at] gmail.com.