In this video for the Poetry Society of America’s Storefront Poems series, Kimiko Hahn reads her poem “Ode to the Mud in Corona Park,” which appears in her collection The Ghost Forest: New and Selected Poems (Norton, 2024). For more from Hahn, read her installation of our Ten Questions series.
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