Paul Tran earned a BA from Brown University and an MFA in poetry from Washington University. Tran is the first Asian American since 1993 to win the Nuyorican Poets Cafe Grand Slam, and has placed in the Top 10 at the Individual World Poetry Slam and has earned ninth, fifth, second place in three consecutive National Poetry Slams. They live in Missouri, where they are poetry editor at The Offing and the Senior Poetry Fellow at Washington University in St. Louis.
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The Cave
Someone standing at the mouth had
the idea to enter. To go further
than light or language could
go. As they followed
the idea, light and language followed
like two wolves—panting, hearing themselves
panting. A shapeless scent
in the damp air ...
Keep going, the idea said.
Someone kept going....