Select Poems
萍, Permanent Record: Poetics Towards the Archive
Angel Island State Park, The Adroit Journal
The Year of My Father’s Cancer I Watched 120 Hours of Star Wars, Waxwing
Departure, Waxwing
Three Months Since, Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day
The Bookcase, Palette Poetry
Twelve Chinese Confessions, 1963, Apogee
Asian Lady Beetle, Tinderbox Poetry Journal
竹升 jook-sing, BOAAT
tank grrl, Hot Metal Bridge
hypothesis, The Offing
Book

In the Tongue of Ghosts (First Word Press, 2016) is a collection of the first poems I wrote and performed, examining identity, belonging, and coming of age in the Bay Area as a grandchild of Chinese immigrants. Between diaspora angst and unrequited crushes, these early articulations map the obsessions I continue to write through: history and myth, language and death, poetry as a practice of mourning and becoming.
Cover art by Alex Chiu