no I am not at AWP (& honestly the FOMO is SO REAL) but I somehow received this very special message from THE JANE WONG whose Tin House memoir I absolutely DEVOURED like a chicken wing… 😭😭😭 courtesy of Shze-Hui Tjoa who introduced me to Jane as her biggest fan in Singapore…

Fresh off the press: FOUR new poems about my hometown, all titled “Bangkok, Thailand” in The Seventh Wave’s community anthologies!! Thank you my editor Para for your keen eye loving and editing these poems with me!! Read them at theseventhwave.org/publication/...

have some new poems dropping tomorrow!! so, as a little teaser, here’s a very relevant screenshot from Finnish Who Wants to Be a Millionaire

A poem about queer joy reprinted in an anthology from my Alma mater. Inspired by Franny Choi’s “Science Fiction”. I also love dissing poor innocent straight people. 😆 #FuckAroundandFindOut

Woke up this morning to a beautiful rejection email for my poetry chapbook and… I’m so 😭😭😭 I was about to abandon this project but now I guess I MUST continue writing it!!!

just updated my website (maxpasakorn.works) with a forthcoming publication from The Seventh Wave and I'm so happy I wrote four poems with the same damn title cause this listing got me laughing to myself!! (Shoutout to Para my amazing editor for editing these poems!)

My boyfriend and I holding space for Thai iced tea