“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.”
STICKY NOTES
on the COUNTERCLOCK blog
“Driver’s License (or the Lack Thereof),” June 2021
“In the Cards,” April 2021
“The Poet's Notebook,” February 2021
“Plastic Bag Days,” January 2021
a personal essay column / an amalgamation of the happier dust collecting in my notes app / an attempt at practicing gratitude, learning optimism, and formally asking the universe to allow me a nice thought or two to share
OTHER ESSAYS
COUNTERCLOCK, “Self-Care in a Global Pandemic: Flimsiness, Litmus Tests, & Zoom Therapy,” September 2021
COUNTERCLOCK, “Found Poetry: Animal Crossing’s Poetic Horizons,” February 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