Priscilla Lee

Poet & Writer

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Publications

Web Sites

"Moon Cake" - appeared on the San Francisco Public Library Web site, www.sfpl.org, as part of City Reflections: War and Peace on Our Streets.

"Family Dinner," "China," and "Beneath the Surface" - appeared in the Poetry Foundation Web Site 

Literary Magazines

"Distance" and "Wisdom" - appeared in Ploughshares

"Prayers to Buddha" and "Midwife" - appeared in The Kenyon Review

"Shaman" - appeared in Phoebe

"Rain" - appeared in Mid-American Review

"All My Life" and "At the Wonton Monkee" - appeared in ZYZZYVA

"Instructions" and " Peel" - appeared in Cafe Review

"Two People" - appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review

"Driving with My Third Eye" - appeared in Another Chicago Magazine

"Homage to Boy George" and "Little Priscilla, Meet Big Priscilla" - appeared in the Paterson Literary Review

"How the Lee's Have Fun on a Saturday Night," "Chu's House of Lovely Animals," and "White-Knuckle Romance" - appeared in Flyaway

"As A Way," "Sex," "The Crossing," "Mania," "After the Bird," and "The Mummy" - appeared in Gargoyle

"Becoming a Cross-Dresser" - featured in Gargoyle #46 Spoken Word/Music CD

"Family Dinner" - appeared in Poetry Flash

"Carry On Like a Raven," "The Sunset, 1973," "The Bench, 1973" "King of Beasts" - appeared in Konch Magazine

"Chinese Wedding in Vegas" - appeared  in Hyphen

"Empathy" and "Chinese Girl in the Mirror" - appeared in the Berkeley Poetry Review

"Fruits," "Palms," and "George Grosz 'Suicide' 1916" - appeared in Bakunin

"Lines" - appeared in Barrow Street

"Wishbone" and "What My Grandfather Sang" - appeared in Cream City Review

"Wane," "Nocturne," "Beast," and "Breaking" - appeared in Rain City Review

"Offering" - appeared in Urban Spaghetti

"White-Knuckle Romance", "Chu's House of Lovely Animals", "The Miscarriage", "Hovering", "The Crisp Heart of Romaine", "Dim Sum and Then What?" "Letter to My Therapist", and "Little Guy and George" – appeared on PoetryMagazine.com

"Jade Bracelets of the Chop Chop Sisterhood" – appeared in The Yerba Buena Asian American Corps and Senior Activities Center Newsletter

"Steam" and "Cousin Rocco's 30th Birthday" - appeared in Poems from the Center for Visionary Women

"Pretty Woman" and "HA" - appeared in the San Francisco Bay Guardian

"Grandma Midwife" and "My Grandmother Was 100 Years Old When She Died" - forthcoming in the Paterson Literary Review

Anthologies

"Burnt Offerings" - appeared in The Place That Inhabits Us:  Poems of the San Francisco Bay Watershed

"Fortune" - appeared in Making More Waves:  New Writings By Asian American Women

"The Vision" - appeared in Storming Heaven's Gate: An Anthology of Spirtual Writings by Women

"The Miscarriage," "In Laws and Outlaws," and "The Butterfly Lovers" - appeared in Yellow as Turmeric, Fragrant as Cloves

"Mom's Chinese Cooking Lessons," "Rice and Meatballs," "Living Above the Keystone Korner, San Francisco, 1970," and "My Secret Life" - appeared in the Marin Poetry Center Anthology

"Moon Cake" - reprinted in The Other Side of the Postcard; City Lights Foundation

"Steam" - reprinted in the Santa Rosa Poetry Walk Anthology

"Homage to Boy George" - reprinted in the Poets 11 2008 Anthology of Poems

"Chu's House of Lovely Animals" - reprinted in Proposing on the Brooklyn Bridge: Poems About Marriage; Grayson Books