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Spirit Lead Me Where My Trust is Without Borders: Two Poems by Kabel Mishka Ligot

What / saint-kissed relics shall I take with me, what shall serve as capstones for the / humble churches I’ll build in the parking lots of the American dream?

By Kabel Mishka Ligot
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July 16, 2019

 

 

Spirit Lead Me Where My Trust is Without Borders



 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Kabel Mishka Ligot was born and raised in and around Metro Manila in the Philippines. He holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he received the 2019 Jerome Stern Teaching Award. Mishka’s work has been published or is forthcoming in Akda: The Asian Journal of Literature, Culture & Performance, Bear Review, and Cha. He is a Tin House Summer Workshop fellow and a recipient of the Don Belton Scholarship for Poetry at the 2019 Indiana University Writers’ Conference. Mishka currently lives in the Midwest. @taglishes
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