Writing • Video

Poems and prose have been published in print and online, including in Beloit Poetry Journal, Best American Poetry blog, Discover Nikkei, Farsickness Journal, Kyoto Journal, The Margins at Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Mixed Roots Stories, Pequod, Poetry Flash, the Poetry Foundation, Poetry Kanto, Prairie Schooner, Salamander, Watershed Review, and Zócalo Public Square.

Following are a few links to my writing that appear online:

POEMS

Poem-a-Day plus three poems from The Darkened Temple at the Poetry Foundation
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Two poems at Nikkei Uncovered, a poetry column at Discover Nikkei
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Three poems (from The Darkened Temple) at The Margins
Asian American Writers’ Workshop
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Three poems in MiPOesias, edited by Emma Trelles
Link to the site

Three poems at A Poetry Congeries with John Hoppenthaler
Connotation Press: An Online Artifact
Link to the poems

Five poems (from The Darkened Temple)
at Gwarlingo‘s Sunday Poem Series
Link to the poems

Three poems (from The Darkened Temple)
at Poem of the Week
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“The Gate”
at Zocalo Public Square
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“One Day It Appeared On the Horizon and, After a While, It Was Here”
at Zocalo Public Square
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Three poems at Connotation Press: An Online Artifact
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Three poems (from The Darkened Temple)
at Poetry Kanto
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“The Bush Warbler Laments to the Woodcutter” (from The Darkened Temple)
at Yomimono, an online journal edited by Suzanne Kamata

PROSE

“My Lost L.A.” at Farsickness Journal, August 2022
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Remembrance of Jane Mead at Adrian Koesters’s blog, January 2021
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Contribution to poetics anthology Counterclaims: Poets and Poetries, Talking Back, edited by Harvey L. Hix and published by Dalkey Archive Press, May 2020
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“Philip Levine: A Remembrance” at Poetry Flash, August 2019
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“An Osaka Summer” at Discover Nikkei, September 25, 2017
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“Liminality as Inheritance: On Being Mixed and Third Culture” at Mixed Roots Stories, October 7, 2017:
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“To Live Without Answers: Kore-eda Hirokazu’s Maboroshi” at Best American Poetry blog, March 6, 2015:
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“My Borderlands: Location of Potent Unresolve” at Best American Poetry blog, March 5, 2015:
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“Malinda Markham: Felt Intelligence, Compassionate Interiority” at Best American Poetry blog, March 4, 2015:
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“One Must Have a Mind of Spring” at Best American Poetry blog, March 3, 2015:
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“Our Father in the Wind: Remembering Philip Levine” at Best American Poetry blog, March 2, 2015:
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“On Letting Go” at Door Number Two, February 6, 2015

My essay on waiting tables at Best American Poetry blog’s “Ready to Serve,” January 30, 2015:
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“Japan, ever-present: Reflections on memory, culture, history, and hybridity in the wake of Japan’s earthquake and tsunami” at Prairie Schooner‘s blog, March 24, 2011:
Link to the essay

VIDEO

Reading “Anju, From the Far World” at the San Francisco Asian Art Museum on June 28, 2012: 
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Reading “Grief is Deep Green” and “Two Maples” for the PAWA Arkipelago Reading Series at the Bayanihan Community Center, San Francisco on September 19, 2009:
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Reading “The Bush Warbler Laments to the Woodcutter” at the Sacramento Poetry Center on August 24, 2009:
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They Rise Like A Wave

An Anthology of Asian American Women Poet “TwoBaSepte