SELECTED WORKS
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PLEIADES, PRINT ISSUE 45.1: SPRING 2025 (PART OF THE SPECIAL FOLIO ON ELEGY, “TO THE ALTAR I SAY,” GUEST EDITED BY AYESHA RAEES)
“What’s the First Word in ‘Illegal Immigrant’?”
WINNER OF THE 2025 LUCILLE MEDWICK MEMORIAL AWARD (POETRY SOCIETY OF AMERICA), JUDGED BY NATALIE SCENTERS-ZAPICO
2 poems (print republication of “Bitter Melon,” “It Feels Good to Cook Rice”—both appear in Feast) in Permanent Record: Poetics Towards the Archive, edited by Naima Yael Tokunow
A visionary anthology that examines and reimagines the archive as a form of collective record-keeping, featuring work by Douglas Kearney, Brenda Shaughnessy, Mahogany L. Browne, and many new and emerging voices.
Inspired by Naima Yael Tokunow’s research into the Black American record (and its purposeful scarceness), Permanent Record asks, what do we gain when we engage with our flawed cultural systems of remembrance? How does questioning and creating a deep relationship to the archive, and in some cases, spinning thread from air where there is none, allow us to prefigure the world that we want? Including reflections on identity and language, diasporic and first generation lived experiences, and responses to the ways the record upholds harm and provides incomplete understandings, Permanent Record hopes to reframe what gets to be a part of collective remembrance, exploring “possibilities for speculating beyond recorded multiplicity.”
2 poems: “Ode to Lakapati,” “Salt”
BELLINGHAM REVIEW, ISSUE 89
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EQUATORIAL ISSUE 6
“Tell Me You Love Me Without Telling Me You Love Me”
WHERE MEADOWS
“As if We are Both Still Children,” “you wash your hands”
FOGLIFTER JOURNAL VOLUME 9 ISSUE 1 (print)
“I can’t afford a whole universe”
THE MARGINS (ASIAN AMERICAN WRITERS’ WORKSHOP)
EUCALYPTUS LIT
“The Stomach is the Origin of All Ghosts”
THE RUMPUS: NATIONAL POETRY MONTH 2024
SPLIT LIP
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SPLIT THIS ROCK
“The Moon Could Never Love Me”
SWEET LITERARY
SOUTHERN CULTURES (DIGITAL), NO. 28, VOL. 4: MORAL/ECONOMIES
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“Self-Portrait as Foreign Body with Storm in My Lungs”, “Point to Home”
THE AMERICAN POETRY REVIEW VOL. 51, NO. 04 (JULY/AUGUST PRINT ISSUE)
“The Alchemy of Language: Ina Cariño on Naming, Claiming, and Protecting Ancestral Land”
LIT HUB
2 poems: “When a Woman is Ugly”, “Event Horizon”
THE MARGINS (ASIAN AMERICAN WRITING WORKSHOP)
“Naming the Silences in the Mouth”
POETRY SOCIETY OF AMERICA
“What is the Name of Your Survival?”
HONEY LITERARY
“my childhood is a country of thieves—”
POETRY NORTHWEST WINTER & SPRING PRINT ISSUE
“Yesterday’s Trauma, Today’s Salt”
MICHIGAN QUARTERLY REVIEW: MIXTAPE
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“when I say hello to the oldest apples”
GUERNICA
3 poems: “Intake”, “names are spells & I have four—”, “Dropout”
DIODE
POETRY NORTHWEST
“When They Gleam, When They Clatter”
TLDTD
2 poems: “Hibiscus Dream No. 4”, “Native Title”
POETRY MAGAZINE
SEPIA
2 poems: “I Sing Despite the Tender Stench Outside”, “My Body a Retelling”
DIAGRAM
THE PARIS REVIEW DAILY
“To the Boy Who Walks Backwards Everywhere He Goes”
ZOEGLOSSIA
APOGEE JOURNAL
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EX/POST MAGAZINE
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WILDNESS
2 poems: “Infinitives,” “Milk”
UNDERBLONG
5 poems: “It Feels Good to Cook Rice”, “Watch Animals Closely for Strange Behavior”, “Birthstone”, “Soiled”, “Triptych with Cityscape”
WAXWING MAG
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NEW ENGLAND REVIEW 40.3
DUKE UNIVERSITY BLOG (RESPONSE TO ART EXHIBIT “SOUTHBOUND: PHOTOGRAPHS OF AND ABOUT THE NEW SOUTH”)
RHINO (REVIEW OF FORMER POSSESSIONS OF THE SPANISH EMPIRE BY MICHELLE PEÑALOZA)
“When I Sing to Myself, Who Listens?”
THE OXFORD REVIEW OF BOOKS, FEATURED POEM OF THE WEEK
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2 poems: “Snapshot of Girl with Galaxy of Spiders Drowning in Sopas”, “What Does the Little Death Feel Like Coming from a Woman?”
FUGUE
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RHINO
“‘my heart is unpronounceable:’ Tongue and Language as Heart, as Home”
ANOMALY (REVIEW OF THE BLUEST KALI BY SCHEREZADE SIOBHAN)
2 poems: “Theory of Nothing”, “I dream in a tongue other than my own”
TUPELO QUARTERLY TQ16
NAT. BRUT ISSUE 11 (BEYOND RESILIENCE FOLIO)
“Spam Stigma: An Open Letter to White People”
VIDA REVIEW (CREATIVE NONFICTION)
RALEIGH REVIEW 8.1