Poems
Selected poems
Birdcoat Quarterly – "Bylaw [S.1] String-and-Wire Abecedarian"
Qu Literary Magazine – "Aubade Before Tribunal"; "Dictums OG-107, Ceremony V"
Tahoma Literary Review (print) – "Margins, Affirmations"
Oxidant|Engine (print) – “Love Lettering, [Anon]”; “Roses, Mid-June”; “How to Cut Through Wire”; “Operation End Sweep”; “Painted Landscape”; “Triple Bridge; “Andante at Her Loom”; “O, Lady Queen of Mercy”
Salt Hill Journal (print) – "18 November 1966”; “19 November 1966”
Pinwheel – Paris by Night [“Who ghost-locks me?”]; [“How might you be attentive to my living?”] (nominated for the 2020 Pushcart Prize); [“Mesh is pink, taffeta bedazzled”]; [“Can you describe the sound?”]; [“Through burnt canopies, a footnote whistles overhead”]
AAWW – Testimony ["Absolutely Virtuous"]; “Cross-Examination (A.1)”; “Exhibit (A.1)”
Sundog Lit – Testimony Q [“[Redacted] as the Quality”]; Redactions from an International War Crimes Tribunal
Project As[I]Am (with illustration) – "A Song for Grace Lee Boggs"
2021 .
Hayden's Ferry Review (forthcoming) – "Testimony R [“Rounded Up”]"; "TANGO [“Yes, I Saw It Happen Thirty, Forty Times”]"
2020 .
Berkeley Poetry Review (forthcoming) - "Anon"; "Thundering Rose"; "Lesser Beasts"; "ASMR, Rose, and Graphite"
New Delta Review – "Closing Statement" (winner of the Matt Clark Editors’ Choice Prize)
Qu Literary Magazine – "Aubade Before Tribunal"; "Dictums OG-107, Ceremony V"
Tahoma Literary Review (print) – "Margins, Affirmations"
Oxidant|Engine (print) – “Love Lettering, [Anon]”; “Roses, Mid-June”; “How to Cut Through Wire”; “Operation End Sweep”; “Painted Landscape”; “Triple Bridge; “Andante at Her Loom”; “O, Lady Queen of Mercy”
Salt Hill Journal (print) – "18 November 1966”; “19 November 1966”
Pinwheel – Paris by Night [“Who ghost-locks me?”]; [“How might you be attentive to my living?”] (nominated for the 2020 Pushcart Prize); [“Mesh is pink, taffeta bedazzled”]; [“Can you describe the sound?”]; [“Through burnt canopies, a footnote whistles overhead”]
AAWW – Testimony ["Absolutely Virtuous"]; “Cross-Examination (A.1)”; “Exhibit (A.1)”
Sundog Lit – Testimony Q [“[Redacted] as the Quality”]; Redactions from an International War Crimes Tribunal
2019 .
amberflora – “Throwing Rose, [Anon]”
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"
CH 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"
CH 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"