· Lo Kwa Mei-en's THE BEES MAKE MONEY IN THE LION is bawdiness and bombast, a babel of tongues locked and loaded, vowel-drunk and pledging allegiance to the bones of a lion. These downloaded colonists and conquerors masquerading as citizens romance the future, drag you to the edge by your treacherous light. Lo Kwa Mei-en is the author of Yearling (Alice James Books), The Bees Make Money in the Lion (Cleveland State University Poetry Center), and two chapbooks from The Lettered Streets Press and Bloom Books. She lives and works in Cincinnati, Ohio. Lo Kwa Mei-en’s second collection of poems, The Bees Make Money in the Lion, is a loaded, postmodern experience. As if to channel versions of dystopia, Mei-en crafts poems that embrace the notion of discordance at its fullest.
This powerful piece by Lo Kwa Mei-en is featured in a folio set inside our current issue. She is the author of Yearling (Alice James Books), The Bees Make Money in the Lion (CSUPC), and two chapbooks, The Romances (The Lettered Streets Press) and Two Tales (Bloom Books). She lives and works in Cincinnati, Ohio. Lo Kwa Mei-en's THE BEES MAKE MONEY IN THE LION is bawdiness and bombast, a babel of tongues locked and loaded, vowel-drunk and pledging allegiance to the bones of a lion. These downloaded colonists and conquerors masquerading as citizens romance the future, drag you to the edge by your treacherous light. I want to lick these poems from z to a. LO KWA MEI-EN is the author of YEARLING (Alice James Books ), winner of the Kundiman Poetry Prize. Her poems can be found in Black Warrior Review, Boston Review, Poetry Northwest, The Kenyon Review, and other www.doorway.ru is from Singapore and Ohio, and lives and works in Cinci nnati. nnati.
Lo Kwa Mei-en’s second collection of poetry, The Bees Make Money in the Lion, is a collection of un-verse. It presses language in its attempt to undo itself, its speakers, and the systems in which it necessarily operates. A shifting lyric “I” sings at the centering of this undoing. Lo Kwa Mei-en is the author of The Bees Make Money in the Lion (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, ) and Yearling (Alice James Books, ). She lives and works in Cincinnati, Ohio. She lives and works in Cincinnati, Ohio. Lo Kwa Mei-en is the author of The Bees Make Money in the Lion (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, ) and Yearling (Alice James Books, ). She lives and works in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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