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Who Needs a Date When I’ve Got a Microwave

"Hinge," a poem by Xinyue Huang

Who Needs a Date When I’ve Got a Microwave

Hinge

About the Author

Xinyue Huang is a poet from Shanghai, China. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in Pigeon Pages, The Georgia Review, and several Chinese poetry publications. A semifinalist for the 2021 Joy Harjo Poetry Contest and a finalist for the 2022 Black Warrior Review Poetry Prize, Huang writes poems in both English and Chinese. She is an MFA student at New York University and the assistant translations editor at The Washington Square Review.

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