SELECTED POEMS

Scrawl Place, “Chesapeake Bay Haibun,” March 2025

Frontier Poetry, “First Notes on Tennis,” January 2025

Denver Quarterly, “‘When you’re older, I’ll tell you a story,’” September 2024 (print)

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, “elegy for betta fish,” October 2021

Blue Marble Review, “When I Am Eight,” September 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