Asa Drake

Biography

Asa Drake is the author of Maybe the Body (Tin House, 2026) and Beauty Talk (Noemi, 2026). A National Poetry Series finalist, her poems are published or forthcoming in The Georgia Review, Poetry, The Sewanee Review, and The Kenyon Review.

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POETRY / Summer 2026

Linear Rendition of the 1775 Mouzon Map Coauthored with Reluctant Ancestors

By Asa Drake
POETRY / Summer 2026

I Recognized This Country as My Country

By Asa Drake

the gods watched over. And it was briefly true.
The gods. Their attention.
When I was little, we lived on heirs’ land,