A Number Is a Place

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“A Number Is a Place” by Norman Tran is the second runner-up of the 2026 Rising Poet Prize, selected by our guest judge, Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo. We’re honored to share this musing poem with you.

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Norman Tran

Norman Tran (he/they) is a queer, neurodivergent Chinese American poet and educator from Los Angeles. Their work is forthcoming in The Kenyon Review, and appears in Honey Literary, Tell Me About the Dream (Papaya Press, 2025), The Seventh Wave, and elsewhere. They are a 2026 PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow whose writing has been supported by FAWC, Kundiman, Lambda Literary, and Periplus Collective. They are working towards their debut collection, cross-examining Gaysian polyamorous relationships and the patterns that make us love recklessly, silently, exponentially.

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