In this installment of UC Berkeley’s Lunch Poems series, Cindy Juyoung Ok reads a selection of poems from her debut collection, Ward Toward (Yale University Press, 2024), which won the 2023 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize, and some newer poems inspired by her experience as a neurosurgical patient.
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