SELECTED POEMS

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, “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” & “Exposure,” February 2022

“Some nights…” 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

INKSOUNDS, “fool’s gold,” 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

Marías at Sampaguitas, “Yesterday, I watched videos on manifesting,” January 2021

Depth Cues, “First page,” December 2020

Windows Facing Windows Review, “Drainwater,” November 2020

Taco Bell Quarterly, “‘What can I get for you today,’” September 2020

perhappened mag, “driving lessons,” July 2020