Morgan Võ

Portrait of Morgan Võ, sitting outside in the sun, wearing long hair and a green rain jacket. They are smiling.

Photo by Sam White.

Morgan Võ (b. 1989) is a poet and librarian concerned with resonance, contingency, difficulty understanding, and the presence of the dead among the living.

They are 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 (2023), and have recently appeared in Changes Review and Footnotes.

He 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 was a member of the editorial collective for the Poetry Project Newsletter from 2022 to 2025.

Originally from coastal Virginia, they live now in Brooklyn, New York.

contact

mv@morganvo.net

upcoming

Reading with Alex Cuff — Wed., 4/09, 8pm at The Poetry Project.

Conversation with Steve Mentz — Thu., 4/24, 5:30–7pm, online via NYPL.

news

Courtney Bush welcomes The Selkie into her fish-work canon — Annulet 8.

The Selkie is available to borrow from BPL and NYPL.

An index card with the I Ching hexagram for 'youthful folly.' It includes the hexagram, labelled with KEN (mountain) and K'AN (watery abyss), as well as the name, number (#4), and a quote: Strengthening what is right in the fool is a holy task.