“Maybe I’ll forget how to write. Maybe ideas will stop coming to me. Maybe I’ll write about everything I know, and then there will be nothing left. So every poem needs to be the best poem yet, I’ll tell myself, because this might be the last one.”
ESSAYS
COUNTERCLOCK, “Self-Care in a Global Pandemic: Flimsiness, Litmus Tests, & Zoom Therapy,” September 2021
COUNTERCLOCK, “Sticky Notes: Driver’s License (or the Lack Thereof),” June 2021
COUNTERCLOCK, “Sticky Notes: In the Cards,” April 2021
COUNTERCLOCK, “Found Poetry: Animal Crossing’s Poetic Horizons,” February 2021
COUNTERCLOCK, “Sticky Notes: The Poet's Notebook,” February 2021
COUNTERCLOCK, “Sticky Notes: Plastic Bag Days,” January 2021
COUNTERCLOCK, “Childhood Ruined: Filipinx American Representation in Steven Universe,” October 2020
The Poetry Question, “On becoming a poet,” June 2020
BOOK REVIEWS
Marías at Sampaguitas, “Review of Elsa Valmidiano’s The Beginning of Leaving,” June 2023
Marías at Sampaguitas, “Review of Hari Alluri’s Our Echo of Sudden Mercy,” October 2022
COUNTERCLOCK, “Taco Bell Quarterly Volume #3: On Heartaches, Hopes, and Living Más,” November 2020
Marías at Sampaguitas, “Review of Elsa Valmidiano’s We Are No Longer Babaylan,” October 2020
COUNTERCLOCK, “Lysley Tenorio's The Son of Good Fortune: A Look at Life as a TNT,” August 2020
COUNTERCLOCK, “Keana Aguila Labra's Natalie: An Ode of Love and Celebration of Life,” August 2020
COUNTERCLOCK, “Afia Atakora's Conjure Women: An Exploration of the Uncharted American Civil War South,” June 2020
COUNTERCLOCK, “Zalika Reid-Benta's Frying Plantain: How Do We Love?” March 2020
COUNTERCLOCK, “Katie Flynn's The Companions: What Does It Mean to be Human?” January 2020
COUNTERCLOCK, “John Sibley Williams' Skin Memory: As If History Cannot Burn Us,” October 2019
BLURBS
When the Forest Finds You by Lannie Stabile
Variant Literature, 2024
Lannie Stabile delivers us the director’s cut: deleted scenes and unreleased epilogues, excavated truths about characters and cast, alternate endings that at first promise different—but bring us to the same dizzying end. With precision and sensitivity fine-tuned for the darkroom, Stabile takes control of narrative, showing us how horror stories of lost autonomy have permeated media, yet what comes after, the complexity—and often isolation—of survival remains obscure. When the Forest Finds You is what many protagonists experience off-screen, between scenes, after credits have rolled—in real life. This chapbook is both a portrait of survivors’ solitude and promise from Stabile to her speakers and readers: no matter how old the wound, we navigate the labyrinth of recovery together.