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Nothing Is Wrong and That’s Terrifying

Two poems by Evan Wang

Nothing Is Wrong and That’s Terrifying

When I Grow Up I Aspire to Be Nothing Like My Father

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About the Author

王潇/Evan Wang is the author of Slow Burn (Northwestern University Press, 2026), winner of the Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize, a GLAAD 20 under 20 honoree, and the 9th National Youth Poet Laureate of the United States. His work appears in POETRY Magazine, The Kenyon Review, Waxwing, Sixth Finch, and elsewhere, and has been featured at and recognized by the White House, the United Nations, the Smithsonian Institution, Google DeepMind, and more. Evan is an undergraduate student at Harvard College.

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