“Manic Pixie Dreams” by Kyo Lee
Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “Manic Pixie Dreams” by Kyo Lee, from i cut my tongue on a broken country (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2025), shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. Due to its formatting, this poem is only available as an image.
Manic Pixie Dreams
By Kyo Lee
From i cut my tongue on a broken country
Copyrightย ยฉ Kyo Lee
From i cut my tongue on a broken country (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2025), shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award.
Kyo Lee is a Korean Canadian writer from Waterloo, Ontario, studying history and literature at Yale College. She was a winner of the CBC Poetry Prize and a finalist for the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award. Her work also appears in Narrative, Nimrod, Prism, The Forge, and This Magazine, among others. She has a love-hate relationship with summer, improv baking, and poetry. You can visit her at kyolee.me.
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