“I hear I’m supposed to die / at a place called Chicken Heaven.”
SELECTED POEMS
Frontier Poetry, “First Notes on Tennis,” forthcoming
Denver Quarterly, “‘When you’re older, I’ll tell you a story,’” forthcoming
Baltimore Review, “Another Poem About Cut Fruit,” July 2024
Tinderbox Poetry Journal, “There are no Filipinos in Mississippi (Anderson Grove),” “If you smell a lit candle…,” “American Tanaga / Mississippi Kamayan,” March 2024
Depth Cues, “Hilda,” January 2024
Salt Hill Journal, “This Time, the Teeth Dream,” January 2024 (print)
Asian American Writers’ Workshop – The Margins, “Zuihitsu with Lessons from Dad,” November 2023
TLDTD: A biannual journal for Filipino poets and poetry, “There are no Filipinos in Mississippi (Jackson Avenue West),” “There are no Filipinos in Mississippi (Asian Foods Market),” “There are no Filipinos in Mississippi (Price Street),” September 2023
Honey Literary, “utang na loob,” August 2023
Palette Poetry, “There are no Filipinos in Mississippi (The Growler),” July 2023
Lumiere Review, “Aswang Duplex II” & “Moonrise at Sardis Lake,” June 2023
“Aswang Duplex II” nominated for Best of the Net 2024!
Ghost City Review, “Aswang Duplex I,” June 2023
Alien Magazine, “The Boys and I,” May 2023
Sundog Lit, “Notes for a Conversation on Flux,” March 2023
trampset, “Dream Journal,” August 2022
Rejection Letters, “f,” July 2022
indigo literary journal, “Some nights I think I won’t dream of you and then,” February 2022 (defunct)
Nominated for Best of the Net 2023!
Kissing Dynamite, “In which I am cast in a Studio Ghibli film,” February 2022
Eunoia Review, “Despite seven years of French class,” “Smart cars,” & “#684 petal pushers,” October 2021
Rejection Letters, “elegy for betta fish,” October 2021
Blue Marble Review, “When I Am Eight,” September 2021
Marías at Sampaguitas, “there are no jollibees in georgia,” June 2021
trampset, “Duplex (We dug holes deep enough to bury ourselves),” June 2021
HAD, “crane game,” June 2021 (reprint, previously in Hobart)
HAD, “Prior to a Tearful Confession that Island Life is Perhaps Not for Me,” February 2021
Depth Cues, “First page,” December 2020
Taco Bell Quarterly, “‘What can I get for you today,’” September 2020