Photo by Sam White.
Morgan Võ (b. 1989) is a poet and librarian engaged with resonance, contingency, difficulty understanding, and the presence of the dead among the living. Võ is the author of The Selkie (The Song Cave, 2024) and the chapbooks Lights of Earth (2019) and Eat Pamphlet (2014). Their poems were anthologized in Pathetic Literature (Grove Atlantic, 2023), and have most recently appeared in Noir Sauna, Triple Canopy, and A Perfect Vacuum. He has presented work at The Poetry Project and Giorno Poetry Systems, among other venues. They put out the New Pinky zine in 2014, organized the mutual aid-based poetry press G L O S S from 2020 to 2021, and were a member of the editorial collective for the Poetry Project Newsletter from 2022 to 2025. Originally from coastal Virginia, he lives now in Brooklyn, New York.
contact
morgan.vo@proton.me
writing
Aug. 2026 — Three poems, Noir Sauna
Mar. 2026 — Six poems, with drawings by Cindy Ji Hye Kim, Triple Canopy
Jun. 2025 — Four poems, A Perfect Vacuum
Jan. 2024 — “The US is Peerless,” Makhzin
Dec. 2023 — From “To Market,” Changes Review
Mar. 2023 — From “To Market,” The Brooklyn Rail
news
Reuben Gelley Newman pours The Selkie into Matt Broaddus’s Deeper the Tropics for Only Poems.
Don Yorty moves through The Selkie in his Explorations.
Interview: Brooklyn Poets’ Poet of the Week, August 4–10, 2025.
Call a reading of “The Selkie” (A form of fish life) on Dial-A-Poem.
The Selkie’s “To Market” was a finalist for the 2025 Four Quartets Prize.
NYPL includes The Selkie in their Best New Poetry Books, 2025.
Silas Jones recommends The Selkie in The Paris Review.
Courtney Bush welcomes The Selkie into her fish-work canon in Annulet.
The Selkie is available to borrow from BPL and NYPL.
