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
morgan.vo@proton.me
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
NYPL included The Selkie in their Best New Poetry Books, 2025.
Courtney Bush welcomes The Selkie into her fish-work canon — Annulet 8.
The Selkie is available to borrow from BPL and NYPL.
