Poems
Selected poems
Project As[I]Am (with illustration): "A Song for Grace Lee Boggs"
2019 .
Pinwheel (forthcoming): Paris by Night [“Who ghost-locks me?”]; [“How might you be attentive to my living?”]; [“Mesh is pink, taffeta bedazzled”]; [“Can you describe the sound?”]; [“Through burnt canopies, a footnote whistles overhead”]
Cordite Poetry Review: “Wake, [Anon]”
ANMLY: “Across the Willow [Salix Babylonica]”; “The Kiss”; “The Kiss, Again”; “Brave and Tiny Scholar”
The Iowa Review (print): “Expatriated Fugue”
Cordite Poetry Review: “Wake, [Anon]”
ANMLY: “Across the Willow [Salix Babylonica]”; “The Kiss”; “The Kiss, Again”; “Brave and Tiny Scholar”
The Iowa Review (print): “Expatriated Fugue”
2018 .
Birdfeast: "Give Me Refuge"; "Safe"; "Left Behind"
Peach Mag: "Re: Balance"; "Re: Slather"
Seattle Review (print): “from Hill 192”
Antiracism Inc. (Punctum Books): "After My Uncle Elbowed a Soldier in the Face on the Beach of Pulau Bidong"
Abolition: A Journal of Insurgent Politics: "A Matter of National Security"
Yes, Poetry: "On Forgiving the Man Who Made Me a Poet from His Rib"; "Guerrilla Fighter Manifesto"; "I sent my body home / in naming it, became another sister"
The Wanderer: "The Sister's Essay"
Cosmonauts Avenue: "Michael Fassbender" (nominated for the 2018 Pushcart Prize)
Half Mystic (print): "Nocturne for José" (nominated for the 2018 Pushcart Prize)
Powder Keg (with audio reading): "First of June"; "Whites Paint"; "Coronado"
Nice Cage: "Anchor Baby"; "On Holiday"; "Like a Cancer Grows"
Poor Claudia: "To Shower after Four Days"
Reservoir: "Mono No Awaré"
The Boiler: "Somewhere Nearby"; "A List of Predictions for the New Economy"; "The Waiting Room" (nominated for the 2017 Best of the Net anthology)
wildness: "Deputy on a Texas Prairie"
Hematopoiesis Press: "In Forgetting" (nominated for the 2018 Pushcart Prize)
Big Lucks: “The Meteorologist in Tōhoku”; “Common Language of an Occupation”
Puerto del Sol (print): "I had a premonition of the nuclear plant melting"; "Fear of the Drowned" (nominated for the 2017 Best New Poets anthology and 2018 Pushcart Prize)
TAYO Literary Magazine (print): "Au Bon Pain Abroad"; "KFC Abroad"; "Domino's Abroad"
killing fields journal (with audio reading): "Ue Wo Muite Arukō"; "Search and Rescue"
TENDERLOIN: 6 poems, film, interview
Dying Dahlia Review: “Crackle of Moth Wings Burning”
The Felt: "Wanderlust"; "Frontal"; "Repose"
Mud City Journal: "Operation Fertilizer"
Yalobusha Review (with poetry film): "Giving Oral"; "Menstruating in America"; "Giving Head"
Peach Mag: "Re: Balance"; "Re: Slather"
Seattle Review (print): “from Hill 192”
Antiracism Inc. (Punctum Books): "After My Uncle Elbowed a Soldier in the Face on the Beach of Pulau Bidong"
Abolition: A Journal of Insurgent Politics: "A Matter of National Security"
2017 .
sidereal magazine: "Kamiyo after the Age of Gods"; "Advice from Ojiisan’s Hungry Ghost Who Becomes the Toad"; "Princess Kaguya of the New World"Yes, Poetry: "On Forgiving the Man Who Made Me a Poet from His Rib"; "Guerrilla Fighter Manifesto"; "I sent my body home / in naming it, became another sister"
The Wanderer: "The Sister's Essay"
Cosmonauts Avenue: "Michael Fassbender" (nominated for the 2018 Pushcart Prize)
Half Mystic (print): "Nocturne for José" (nominated for the 2018 Pushcart Prize)
Powder Keg (with audio reading): "First of June"; "Whites Paint"; "Coronado"
Nice Cage: "Anchor Baby"; "On Holiday"; "Like a Cancer Grows"
Poor Claudia: "To Shower after Four Days"
Reservoir: "Mono No Awaré"
The Boiler: "Somewhere Nearby"; "A List of Predictions for the New Economy"; "The Waiting Room" (nominated for the 2017 Best of the Net anthology)
wildness: "Deputy on a Texas Prairie"
Hematopoiesis Press: "In Forgetting" (nominated for the 2018 Pushcart Prize)
Big Lucks: “The Meteorologist in Tōhoku”; “Common Language of an Occupation”
2016 .
Anthropoid: "During the Fall"; "Career Goals in Exile"; "The Currency of War"Puerto del Sol (print): "I had a premonition of the nuclear plant melting"; "Fear of the Drowned" (nominated for the 2017 Best New Poets anthology and 2018 Pushcart Prize)
TAYO Literary Magazine (print): "Au Bon Pain Abroad"; "KFC Abroad"; "Domino's Abroad"
killing fields journal (with audio reading): "Ue Wo Muite Arukō"; "Search and Rescue"
TENDERLOIN: 6 poems, film, interview
Dying Dahlia Review: “Crackle of Moth Wings Burning”
The Felt: "Wanderlust"; "Frontal"; "Repose"
Mud City Journal: "Operation Fertilizer"
Yalobusha Review (with poetry film): "Giving Oral"; "Menstruating in America"; "Giving Head"
2015 .
The James Franco Review: "Sukhumvit Soi 11"; "Lustful Bodies Reincarnate"Project As[I]Am (with illustration): "A Song for Grace Lee Boggs"